Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- IBM to Acquire Linux Distributor Red Hat for $33.4 Billion – Bloomberg
- Strong Earnings Haven’t Cured the Stock Market’s Blues – WSJ
- Bond Traders, Spooked by Tumult in Stocks, Doubt Fed’s Rate Path – Bloomberg
- The huge new Pacific trade deal is about to kick off without the US – Quartz
- Urban Planning Guru Says Driverless Cars Won’t Fix Congestion – NY Times
- Financial conditions tighten as markets tumble – FT
- Here’s what you get when you stick a bunch of investing wonks on an island – MarketWatch
- Market downturn slams stockpicking hedge funds – FT
- New schemes teach the masses to build AI – The Economist
- Where Will Global GDP Growth Come From in the Next Five Years? – Bloomberg
- Macroeconomic Consequences Of Tariffs – IMF
Americas:
- Republicans Aren’t Commenting On Their George Soros Attacks – Buzz Feed
- Pause Interest-Rate Hikes to Help the Labor Force Grow – WSJ
- Driven by Trump Policy Changes, Fracking Booms on Public Lands – NY Times
- Boise and Reno Capitalize on the California Real Estate Exodus – Bloomberg
- U.S. Economy Flashes Signs It’s Downhill From Here – WSJ
- A conspiracy theory about George Soros and a migrant caravan inspired horror – Washington Post
- Critics say Trump has fostered the toxic environment for the political violence he denounces – Washington Post
- What is happening to our country? – Washington Post
- Trump’s Attacks on the News Media Are Working – NY Times
- How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Midterms – NY Times
- Brazil’s Election Is The End Of The Far-Right, Populist Wave. Now We Live With The Results. – Buzz Feed
- Jair Bolsonaro, Far-Right Populist, Elected President of Brazil – NY Times
- Brazil’s Bolsonaro says Trump called to wish him luck – Reuters
- Everything You Need To Know About Jair Bolsonaro, The “Donald Trump Of Brazil” – Buzz Feed
Europe:
- Angela Merkel’s CDU humbled in German regional vote – FT
- A Bundesbank Economist Has a Radical Plan to Halve Italy’s Debt – Bloomberg
- No ‘white knight’ for banks in no-deal Brexit, EU regulator warns – FT
- Opinion: The public is shockingly wrong about Brexit – The Independent
- Italy may kill the EU’s copyright filter plans – Boing Boing
- Will the EU Copyright Directive ‘break the internet’? – Computer Weekly
- Proposed EU copyright changes: is this the death of the internet? – Lexology
Asia:
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- Cornell halts China university ties over curbs on academic freedom – FT
- Economist Zhang Weiying slams ‘China model’ that ‘inevitably leads to confrontation with the West’ – SCMP
- In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate. It’s an Obsession. – NY Times
- A Top Chinese Oilman Vanishes, and a Manhattan Buying Binge Ends – WSJ
- For Taiwan youth, military service is a hard sell despite China tension – Reuters
- How Beijing is using the Nazi propaganda playbook to justify its concentration camps to the world – Hong Kong fp
- How China is performing a giant man in the middle attack on the American internet infrastructure – ZD Net
- China’s first private rocket fails after launch – NY Post
Trans-Tasman:
- Morrison’s approval rating dips into negatives after Wentworth – SBS
- ‘They were offering false hope’: Kerryn Phelps accuses government of breaking byelection vows – The SMH
- Home ownership plummeting among Australia’s young and poor, report finds – The Guardian
- The most comprehensive study to date of wage theft and working conditions among international students, backpackers and other temporary migrants in Australia has found almost a third earned $12 an hour or less, approximately half the casual minimum wage – The Guardian
- Australia’s relationship with its Pacific neighbours should be driven by a genuine desire to help the region, Labor says – 9News
- ‘It’s a very pleasant island’: Conservatives push back against bid to take children off Nauru – The SMH
- NSW Nationals to purge white supremacists and neo-Nazis from party ranks – ABC
- Unemployed couple can’t pay Nine’s million-dollar legal bill – The SMH
- Soaking up Australia’s drought – A solution for drought-stricken areas? – ABC
- Phelps will be good for Wentworth, but it does not represent us – The Age
- State governments matter for democracy — here’s why – ABC
- Upmarket housing led the price falls — but cheap properties are following – ABC
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US and NZ monetary policy messages critical for the Kiwi dollar – Interest.co.nz
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How much more tax are we paying under the Coalition Government? – Interest.co.nz
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