Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Fintech credit markets around the world: size, drivers and policy issues – BIS
- Share Buybacks Help Lift Corporate Earnings – WSJ
- Global liquidity: changing instrument and currency patterns – BIS
- The Latest Bitcoin Bug Was So Bad, Developers Kept Its Full Details a Secret – Coin Desk
- Regulating cryptocurrencies: assessing market reactions – BIS
- We Haven’t Learned From the Financial Crisis—Just Look at Crypto – Breaker
Americas:
- Kushner’s mission improbable: Winning over wealthy Trump skeptics – Politico
- Record number of voters oppose Kavanaugh nomination – Fox News
- The Crisis of the American Elites – The Atlantic
- Sheldon Adelson Sees a Lot to Like in Trump’s Washington – NY Times
- As aid checks go out, farmers worry bailout won’t be enough – NBC
- Struggling U.S. Farmers Have a New Worry: a Resurgent Russia – WSJ
- More Voters Want Democrats to Control Congress, New Poll Shows – WSJ
- Merrill: “Existing Home Sales have Peaked” – Calculated Risk
Europe:
- Hand 10% of equity to workers, Labour to tell major UK companies – FT
- Labour vows to rein in academies and scrap free schools – The Guardian
- Welfare spending for UK’s poorest shrinks by £37bn – The Guardian
- Rotterdam prepared for worst when Britain crashes out of EU – The Guardian
- The six Brexit traps that will defeat Theresa May – The Guardian
Asia:
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- The Trump administration’s secret anti-China plans – Axios
- China’s relentless export machine moves up the value chain – FT
- US to set up $60bn agency to counter China in developing world – FT
- What China Can Teach the U.S. About Artificial Intelligence – NY Times
- China’s Uighurs despair of children’s fate in hands of state – AP
- America and China are in a proper trade war – The Economist
- Kim Jong-un Has a Dream. The U.S. Should Help Him Realize It. – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- AUSTRAC warns about new money laundering threats – ABC
- Coalition to examine Labor’s pay gap plan – SBS
- AGL fined $3m for Vic energy data fail – SBS
- Western Sydney Airport construction begins at Badgerys Creek – ABC
- ‘Welcome to the future of Sydney’: Ground broken at second airport site – SBS
- Sacked ABC boss considers legal options – SBS
- Morrison’s ‘momentum’ peters out – The Saturday Paper
- What the stoush between the federal government and the CFMMEU is really about (spoiler: there’s an election coming) – The Conversation
- Adani coalmine: most Queenslanders want water licence revoked, poll finds – The Guardian
- Teachers are NOT under-qualified and NOT under-educated: here’s what is really happening – AARE
- 1 in 4 Australian ministers go on to work for lobbyists or special interests – The Guardian
- Catholic schools receive 10 times the funding they need: analysis – Canberra Times
- In the past three years, nearly 70 per cent of federal ministers and shadow ministers have accepted corporate hospitality – ABC
- Public policy should be made for all Australians – The Conversation
- Poor polling for NSW Liberals ahead of possible spill – New Daily
- 60 Minutes: ‘A catastrophic loss of faith in democracy’ – 9News
- GPs struggle in a system ill-equipped to deal with mental health – The SMH
- “You’re never happy”: Downer lashes voters for delivering “decade of turmoil” – InDaily
- The cost of irresponsible government spending – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ still flying with the doves – Interest.co.nz
- Tax and short-term politics – Interest.co.nz