Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Trump Boasts and Scorns Globalism to Skeptical U.N. Crowd – NY Times
- Trump bragged about his presidency and world leaders laughed – Politico
- Do Spectacular Earnings Justify Spectacular US Stock Prices? – Project Syndicate
- Free-Riding Investors Set up Markets for a Major Collapse – Daily Reckoning
- Alternative Risk Premia: Valuable Benefits for Traditional Portfolios – Research Affiliates
- Legacy of Lehman Brothers is a global pensions mess – FT
- Derivatives and debt markets face race to end links with Libor – FT
- Google ends cryptocurrency ad ban – CNBC
- Big Tech’s Business Model Is Broken, Report Says – WSJ
- Machine learning is tearing down language barriers. What does this mean for trade? – VOX
- Regulating cryptocurrencies: assessing market reactions – BIS
Americas:
- Brett Kavanaugh is hard to believe – CNBC
- As Debt Rises, the Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Than on the Military – NY Times
- U.S. Home-Price Gains Decelerated in July – WSJ
- Elizabeth Warren’s Ambitious Fix for America’s Housing Crisis – CityLab
- Elizabeth Warren Just Introduced a Major Housing Bill – The Atlantic
- Trade Deal Could Move Ahead Without Canada, According to U.S. Trade Representative – WSJ
- Forty U.S. States Cannot Afford To Pay All Their Bills – Forbes
- Meet the Woman Running Walmart’s Biggest Deal Ever – Fortune
- U.S. all but certain to miss weekend deadline to include Canada in three-way NAFTA deal – Washington Post
- Argentina central bank chief resigns – FT
Europe:
- Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight? – NY Times
- UK life expectancy progress ’has stopped’ – BBC
- EU open to free trade but not Chequers customs plan:… – Reuters
- UK life expectancy stops improving for first time in decades – FT
- EU watchdog probes possible misuse of refugee funds in Greece – Politico
- EU lawmakers move to tighten rules on London-based investment banks – Reuters
- London’s role in Danske dirty money scandal under spotlight – FT
- European banks seek lighter-touch regulation in the US – FT
- Britain must make clear what it wants on Brexit – Merkel – Reuters
- Brexit Britain sets itself up to learn the hard way – FT
- David Davis-backed Brexit plan calls for big Mifid II changes – FN London
Asia:
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- China Denies U.S. Navy Ship’s Request for Hong Kong Visit – WSJ
- China reveals its new party line: We’re trying to save the world from the US – CNBC
- Xi Jinping’s War on the Uighurs. Part 1: The Witnesses – Omny
- China to weed out foreign content from schoolbooks – FT
- China has silenced American academics for years. Now they’re pushing back. – Washington Post
- China thinks the trade war isn’t really about trade – Washington Post
- Full Text: The Facts and China’s Position on China-U.S. Trade Friction – Xinhua
- The Trump administration’s secret anti-China plans – Axios
Trans-Tasman:
- The Greens want to create a publicly-owned power retailer to drive electricity prices down and give consumers choice – SBS
- ABC chairman Justin Milne under pressure to resign over Emma Alberici email revelations – The SMH
- ABC crisis: calls for chairman Justin Milne to resign as staff call meeting – The Guardian
- Australia’s suicide rate has risen 9 per cent in the last year – ABS
- Secret papers detail Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s costly PR strategy – The Age
- Morrison back-pedals on indigenous day – 9News
- Scott Morrison claims Indigenous voice to parliament would be a third chamber – The Guardian
- Australian property prices facing ‘longest downturn in decades’, says UBS – The SMH
- Labor questions delay in hiring new Race Discrimination Commissioner – SBS
- The Minister, The Liberal Party Donor And The Printing Company That Doesn’t Own A Printer – BuzzFeed
- Employers forced to give detailed reasons for refusing flexible work – The Age
- The faceless men and women behind Michelle Guthrie’s firing – New Daily
- ‘Unlimited greed’: Dick Smith unleashes on Aldi – News.com.au
- First home buyers: Why now is the perfect time to buy your first home – News.com.au
- Budget deficit comes in at $10.1 billion, in boost for early return to surplus – The Conversation
- No big bill hikes as WA economy improves – SBS
- The FHBs and the investors take a breather – Interest.co.nz
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NZ’s August trade deficit widest monthly deficit on record – Interest.co.nz