Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing – Rolling Stone
- Morgan Stanley Plans to Offer Bitcoin Swap Trading for Clients – Bloomberg
- Post-crash economics: have we learnt nothing? – Nature
- JPMorgan Predicts the Next Financial Crisis Will Strike in 2020 – Bloomberg
- Michael Novogratz Calls a Bottom in the Crypto Market – Bloomberg
- Brainard To Markets: We Aren’t Stopping At What You Think Is Neutral – U of Oregon
- What Does an EV/EBITDA Multiple Mean? – Blue Mountain Capital
- $250 Trillion in Debt: the World’s Post-Lehman Legacy – Bloomberg
- The financial crisis and the foundations for macroeconomics – Washington Post
Americas:
- Michael Bloomberg set to run for Democrats against Trump for presidency in 2020 – The Times
- America’s Slide Toward Autocracy – The Atlantic
- Tentative deal reached between Manafort and special counsel: Sources – ABC
- Trump Plans to Rebrand Nafta – WSJ
- Bezos to launch network of preschools: ’The child will be the customer’ – The Hill
- Housing is going to block some views. Maybe yours – Bay City Beacon
- U.S. Has Highest Share of Foreign-Born Since 1910, With More Coming From Asia – NY Times
- ICE says it needs a $1 billion funding boost to meet Trump’s aggressive deportation goals – Washington Post
- U.S. Budget Deficit Widened in August, Treasury Says – WSJ
- The Bailouts for the Rich Are Why America Is So Screwed Right Now – VICE
- Amazon’s Bezos Launches $2 Billion Fund to Help the Homeless – Bloomberg
- The Mortgage Market Is Back a Decade After the Credit Crisis—With New Risks – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Trader blows €100m hole in Nasdaq’s Nordic power market – FT
- ‘We’re not agents’: UK’s suspects in Skripal case talk exclusively with RT’s editor-in-chief – RT
- House prices would plummet in no-deal Brexit, says Carney – The Times
- Tories were only governing conservative party in western Europe to support Hungarian far-right in EU vote – Independent
- Carney gives ‘chilling’ no-deal warning to UK government – FT
- No-deal Brexit threatens electric car market – FT
- A weaker British pound makes no economic sense – FT
- Day-to-day effects of no-deal Brexit stressed in new impact papers – The Guardian
Asia:
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- What Happened to Fan Bingbing, China’s Most Famous Actress? – NY Times
- Why China could withstand the trade war far longer than Trump thinks – Washington Post
- The Real Google Censorship Scandal – NY Times
- 48 Ways to Get Sent to a Chinese Concentration Camp – Foreign Policy
- Another religious detention camp revealed in Xinjiang – News.com
- The Trump trade war is just the tip of the iceberg for Xi’s China – Capx
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson announces that Turnbull will be asked to give evidence at $444m Great Barrier Reef grant inquiry – The Guardian
- Human survival cannot be left to politicians. We’re losing our life support systems – ABC
- Australia on track to miss Paris climate targets as emissions hit record highs – The Guardian
- The real offense of the PM’s prayer for rain – ABC
- Convenience giant 7-Eleven has been called to appear before the Senate inquiry into franchising on Friday following claims it bribed witnesses – The SMH
- Labor criticised for supporting TPP deal – SBS
- Wentworth preselectors’ rebuff to Scott Morrison caps week of mayhem – Politics – ABC
- Scott Morrison and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week – The SMH
- Housing affordability and the market downturn – Domain
- Gender diversity is more accepted in society, but using the pronoun ‘they’ still divides – The Conversation
- Politicians kid themselves, but voters can see a government destroying itself – The Guardian
- O’Dwyer seeks advice on casual worker ‘double-dipping’ decision – Canberra Times
- Regulator’s report points to outrageous gaming of South Australia energy market – Renew Economy
- When cutting interest rates might not help – The Conversation
- Australia seen as one of the world’s four riskiest housing markets – The SMH
- More bank rate cuts – Interest.co.nz
- Capital Gains Tax? ‘Yeah, nah, definitely, maybe’ – Interest.co.nz