Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two by 2028 – CNBC
- World Poverty Falls Below 750 Million, Report Says – WSJ
- Why This VC Is Pouring Millions Into Startups Building ‘a Sci-Fi Future’ – Fortune
- The Prime Effect: How Amazon’s 2-Day Shipping Is Disrupting Retail – WSJ
- Amazon Will Consider Opening Up to 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021 – Bloomberg
- New Fund Firm Cuts Pay If Managers Don’t Beat the Market – WSJ
- How Wall Street Fools You Into Overpaying for Underperformance – Visual Capitalist
- There Have Never Been So Many Bonds That Are Almost Junk – WSJ
- Uber Is in Early Talks to Buy Europe’s Deliveroo – Bloomberg
- It’s Official—Cannabis Is the New Crypto – Bloomberg
- Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but Has Slowed: World Bank – World Bank
- Dollar Traders See the Fed’s Next Rate Hike as a Big Sell Signal – Bloomberg
- The increasing faith in macroprudential policies – VOX
- Treasury Yields Take Flight, Setting Up Big Shorts for Rewards – Bloomberg
- Bond Traders Move Closer to Fed, Ramping Up 2019 Rate Hike Bets – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Internal GOP Poll: ’We’ve Lost the Messaging Battle’ on Tax Cuts – Bloomberg
- Facebook to Give Less Direct Support to Trump in 2020 Campaign – Bloomberg
- The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far – NY Times
- Buoyant stocks lift US household wealth, mainly for affluent – AP
- What Beyoncé and These Billionaires Have in Common: Massive Mortgages – WSJ
- The Fight to Protect the Fed From Trump’s Rate-Hike Barbs – Bloomberg
- Ballooning debt threatens U.S. economic stability: ex-FDIC Chair Bair – Reuters
- Venezuela’s Maduro Feasts on Steak, Smokes Cigars at Salt Bae Restaurant – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Inside Italy’s Shadow Economy – NY Times
- Germany mulls fund to fend off Chinese tech takeovers: source – Reuters
- EU ambushes May over Brexit plan – FT
- Macron puts the boot in after May’s Brexit breakfast blunder – The Guardian
- Theresa May in denial after her Salzburg ordeal – The Guardian
- The EU couldn’t help May at Salzburg because she’s seeking the impossible – The Guardian
- Liam Fox is plotting to scrap EU food standards to win a Brexit trade deal with Trump – Business Insider
- Europe to Investigate Amazon’s Dual Role of Merchant and Platform – NY Times
- Why Brexiters look defeated – Mainly Macro
Asia:
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- Pakistan asks China to soften restrictions on Muslims – Nation
- FOMO in China is a $7 billion industry – Marketplace
- Trump Is Denying Product Exclusions From New China Tariffs – Bloomberg
- China Plans Broad Import Tax Cut as Soon as October – Bloomberg
- Japan’s Successful Economic Model – Project Syndicate
- Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Trade war has killed pledge to create 1 million US jobs – CNN
- A Chinese Company Reshaping the World Leaves a Troubled Trail – Bloomberg
- Spy Fears Prompt China to Censor Its Own Recruitment Drive – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s $4.5bn private school funding boost rejected by NSW Government – ABC
- Private schools to gain billions under new parental-income funding model – ABC
- Extra $4 billion funding allows struggling private school to finally build 3rd swimming pool – The Chaser
- Australia tumbles down global rankings on ‘social progress’ for second year in a row – The Age
- Morrison’s bid for religious freedom looks like legislated homophobia – The Age
- How reef funds went from $5 million to nearly $500 million in five days – The SMH
- Two degrees but cleaning toilets: What it’s like to work for the dole – ABC
- Morrison ducks inquiry on disability care – SBS
- Proposed national integrity commission could extend to lobbying, Labor says – The Guardian
- Alarm over government’s encryption bill rush – Computer World
- Kerryn Phelps backflips, announces she will preference Liberals over Labor – The SMH
- Pro-coal Coalition MPs schedule private dinner to discuss ‘Australia’s energy future’ – The Guardian
- Melbourne is one of the fastest-growing cities in the developed world – The Age
- Labour hire laws targeting workforce exploitation to be scrapped by SA Government – ABC
- Contractors to be face-to-face with Centrelink customers in new trial – The SMH
- August’s net migration gain the lowest since 2013 – Interest.co.nz
- Tax group tackles housing supply – Interest.co.nz