Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade – NY Times
- Investors Say They Were Harmed by Manipulation in Volatility Products – WSJ
- Elon Musk to Step Down as Tesla Chairman, Remain CEO – WSJ
Americas:
- Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border – NY Times
- How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying – Current Affairs
- ‘This is march or die’: Kavanaugh urged to hit back hard – Politico
- Brett Kavanaugh is “too big to fail” – Axios
- The Unbearable Dishonesty of Brett Kavanaugh – The Intercept
- Have low interest rates led to excessive risk taking? – American Economic Association
- Canada agrees to join trade accord with U.S. and Mexico, sending new NAFTA deal to Congress – Washington Post
- California is 1st state to require women on corporate boards – AP News
- The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism – The Atlantic
- Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet – Bloomberg
- McKinsey Advises Puerto Rico on Debt. It May Profit on the Outcome. – NY Times
- Housing Market Slows, as Rising Prices Outpace Wages – NY Times
Europe:
- Facebook Faces Potential $1.63 Billion Fine in Europe Over Data Breach – WSJ
- Paris set to triumph as Europe’s post-Brexit trading hub – Paris
- European banks consider leaving UK derivatives market – FT
- Theresa May: ’I do believe in Brexit’ – BBC
- Brexit costing Britain £500m a week and rising, says report – The Guardian
- Ten years after the crash, the UK economy is going nowhere – TUC
- Danske Bank Estonia: The Magnitsky Connection – Forbes
- Six months to Brexit: how scientists are preparing for the split – Nature
- No-deal Brexit ’would disrupt Toyota plant’ – BBC
- The cost of Brexit to June 2018 – CER
- Theresa May proposes £120m Brexit festival to take place in 2022 – New European
Asia:
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- China Cancels High-Level Security Talks with the U.S. – NY Times
- China’s Economy Losing Steam as Trade Conflict With U.S. Intensifies – WSJ
- Chinese Surveillance Expands to Muslims Making Mecca Pilgrimage – WSJ
- How Trump’s Policies Are Helping China – Foreign
- Japanese banks to offer instant money transfers using blockchain – FT
- China Censors Bad Economic News Amid Signs of Slower Growth – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison has taken responsibility for the coalition’s controversial $444 million grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation – SBS
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned the acting ABC chair to “settle the ship” or risk attracting more attention from the federal government – 9News
- Parliament to consider sweeping changes to the way ABC board members are picked – Canberra Times
- Morrison Says He’ll Keep Close Tabs On ABC To Ensure No Further Political Interference – The Shovel
- Malcolm Turnbull has described former prime ministers Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd as “miserable ghosts” while delivering a brutal assessment of the federal government – SBS
- Morrison seeks to subvert ‘foreign donation’ laws to protect L-NP donors – Independent Australia
- Explainer: what is Pentecostalism, and how might it influence Scott Morrison’s politics? – The Conversation
- Australia must demand Myanmar war crimes tribunal, says investigator – Canberra Times
- Airport’s toxic runoff leaves farmers unable to use water they bought – The Age
- Blowing up the government to save it – George Megalogenis – The Monthly
- Banking royal commission receives 10,140 misconduct submissions from the public – SBS
- STEM scholarships for regional students – SBS
- One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts wants migration rate more than halved – SBS
- Will the royal commission credit squeeze become a credit crunch? – ABC
- Melbourne and Sydney continue to lead year-long national house price decline – ABC
- Sun shines on CSIRO’s cheap hydrogen industry – The SMH
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‘Downside risk to migration’ – Interest.co.nz