Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Big Blockchain Lie by Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate
- Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property? – New Yorker
- Jeff Bezos Wants Us All to Leave Earth—for Good – Wired
- M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion – NY Times
- Fidelity Starts Crypto Unit to Serve Wall Street Customers – Bloomberg
- Small Caps Become Latest Winning Trade to Collapse – WSJ
- The Slope of the Yield Curve and the Near-Term Outlook – FRBS
- How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever – WSJ
- Emerging-Markets Selloffs: This One Is Different – WSJ
- Blockchain isn’t about democracy and decentralisation – The Guardian
- Bond market overestimates when the Fed will stop raising rates, says Pimco – MarketWatch
- What’s Monopsony? It May Be the Reason You Haven’t Had a Raise – Bloomberg
Americas:
- How Newt Gingrich Broke American Politics – The Atlantic
- Budget Deficit Ballooned in 2018, Treasury Says – NY Times
- If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be – NY Times
- Elizabeth Warren releases results of DNA test on Native American ancestry – Boston Globe
- The Senate: Affirmative Action for White People – NY Times
- US budget deficit expands to $779 billion in fiscal 2018 as spending surges – CNBC
- U.S. Government Debt Rises 17% in Fiscal 2018 – WSJ
- Homeless in New York Public Schools at a Record High: 114,659 Students – NY Times
- Trade and immigration have never been so popular in America – The Economist
- What’s the Matter With Manhattan? – The Atlantic
- U.S. Tax Changes Hit Global Investment Flows – WSJ
- Trump denies offering $1 million for Warren DNA test, even though he did – The Hill
- The Fed’s 1 Million Lost Jobs – Bloomberg
Europe:
- No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes – FT
- An island apart: the inside story of how the Foreign Office is failing to prepare for Brexit – Prospect
- Merkel’s Allies in Bavaria Hit With Worst Election Showing Since 1950 – WSJ
- Trump: ‘Nobody treats us much worse than the EU’ – DW
- Germany: ‘Hostage situation’ at Cologne train station – DW
- Poland, Czech Republic against EU border guard plan – France24
- Sinn Féin wants Northern Ireland vote in event of no-deal Brexit – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Myanmar’s Military Said to Be Behind Facebook Campaign That Fueled Genocide – NY Times
- The Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting – NY Times
- First tariffs, and now a move to isolate China in global trade. Can the US succeed? – SCMP
- China Is the Climate-Change Battleground – Bloomberg
- IMF Shows Risks in China’s Debt Markets as Global Popularity Booms – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Mathias Cormann blames “administrative error” for government’s support of Pauline Hanson “it’s OK to be white” motion – SBS
- Mozilla warns decryption laws will break open source – IT News
- Our leaders are destroying our future. Wentworth must be a referendum on climate change – The Guardian
- Traditional owners to tell Origin Energy it has not gained consent for fracking on their land – ABC
- Any inquiry must get to the bottom of political pressure on the ABC – The Guardian
- Australia’s housing boom is not heading for a soft landing. How did we get here? – The Guardian
- Craig Kelly says Coalition must kill off renewable energy subsidies – The Guardian
- Record number of older Australians in poverty, with switch to ‘principal and interest’ a struggle – ABC
- More than three million Australians living in poverty, Acoss report reveals – The Guardian
- Telstra chair tells shareholders execs are overpaid, suggests ditching bonuses – ABC
- Push to legalise cannabis doomed in Senate – SBS
- Inflation surges – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ invites Treasury Secretary to observe monetary policy meetings – Interest.co.nz