Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Walmart, Sam’s Club to put food products on blockchain – Reuters
- The rise of zombie firms: causes and consequences – BIS
- The Curious Case for Emerging Markets – bps
- Oil climbs to 4-year high close to $81 a barrel – FT
- Why the ’gig’ economy may not be the workforce of the future – AP
- A stats-based look behind the venture capital curtain – Medium
- What is the yield curve forecasting? – MacroMania
- Lonely, and Costly, Times for Hedge Funds That Bet on Collapse – WSJ
- Global liquidity: changing instrument and currency patterns – BIS
- Uber drivers and other gig economy workers are earning half what they did five years ago – Recode
- Highest Percentage of Negative EPS Preannouncements for S&P 500 Since Q1 2016 – FactSet
- Underemployment in the US and Europe – VOX
- Meet the Bear-Market Stocks Hiding in S&P 500’s Record Run – WSJ
Americas:
- How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump – New Yorker
- ‘America First’ Has Won – NY Times
- Did Trump Ruffle Rosenstein to Distract From Kavanaugh? – Vanity Fair
- $1 Billion Wage Gain Challenge – JFF
- Trump team wildly underestimated the costs of tariffs – The Hill
- Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, Preliminary 2nd Quarter 2018 – Offii
- Amazon is doling out raises of as little as 25 cents an hour in what employees call ‘damage control’ – Washington Post
- Trump’s trade wars start biting GOP ahead of midterms – Politico
- One Big Problem With Medicaid Work Requirement: People Are Unaware It Exists – NY Times
- Used-Car Sales Boom as New Cars Get Too Pricey for Many – WSJ
- Our economy is nonlinear. Here’s why that matters. – Washington Post
- Veterans are running as Democrats, and the GOP is scrambling to respond – McClatchy
- Home modems, routers hit by U.S. China tariffs as ’smart’ tech… – Reuters
Europe:
- Brexit Britain sets itself up to learn the hard way – FT
- Maths questions for the IEA – BBC
- McDonnell: new Brexit referendum should not include remain option – The Guardian
- Why Brexiters’ confidence in services trade may be misplaced – FT
- Put Brexit talks with EU on backburner and open negotiations with rest of world, Theresa May told – The Telegraph
- Greek journalists detained after minister files complaint – ekathimerini.com
- Brexit Secretary hints we could CHUCK PM’s Chequers plan for Canada-style deal – The Sun
Asia:
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- The night a Chinese billionaire was accused of rape – Reuters
- Peking University threatens to close down Marxism society – FT
- China has silenced American academics for years. Now they’re pushing back. – Washington Post
- The Trump administration’s secret anti-China plans – Axios
- Trump’s China Fight Puts U.S. Tech in the Cross Hairs – NY Times
- China’s relentless export machine moves up the value chain – FT
- China Is Confronting New U.S. Hostility. But Is It Ready for the Fight? – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Spyware on phone fears as Dutton pushes new security laws – The SMH
- Environment Minister Melissa Price attacks Kristina Keneally over reef ‘witch hunt’ – Canberra Times
- ‘Fix our health system!’: A Labor MP’s stinging response to the Premier’s polite card – The SMH
- ‘Whitewash’: US oil and gas lobbyists try to discredit Australian seismic research – The Guardian
- Public schools losing out in political power plays – The Conversation
- After working with Tesla’s Australia battery, wind company wants more batteries – Ars Technica
- Tesla’s massive Powerpack battery in Australia cost $66 million and already made up to ~$17 million – Electrek
- Employers push for a new casual worker category but unions slam the proposal – ABC
- Michelle Guthrie sacking: Senior ABC executives had threatened to quit, source says – ABC
- Millions of SA property records downloaded en masse, government forced to limit access – ABC
- ‘You can’t build a house on it’ but council rates widow’s block at $5m – MSN
- When business kicks away the ladder of opportunity – InDaily
- Secret cameras won’t prevent abuse in nursing homes, experts warn – ABC
- The financial power mismatch – Interest.co.nz