Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Bogus Backlash to Globalization – Foreign Affairs
- Billionaire Ray Dialo Says “Capitalism Is Not Working” for Most People – Barron’s
- ’Remarkable’ decline in fertility rates – BBC
- A death cross is set to form in a key gauge of small-cap stocks – MarketWatch
Americas:
- Deployed Inside the United States: The Military Waits for the Migrant Caravan – NY Times
- Entire cities evacuate as hellish wildfires whip through California – Grist
- Even for This President, It Was a Remarkable Week of Attacks on American Institutions – NY Times
- For Democrats, a midterm election that keeps on giving – Washington Post
- Peter Navarro Blasts China and Wall Street ‘Globalists’ – WSJ
- Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades – WSJ
- Why has the cost of college in the U.S. skyrocketed? – 13D Research
- Trump’s trade war may have helped Democrats win the House – Washington Post
- Investors start to fret about ballooning US public debt – FT
- What the Hell Happened to Brazil? – NY Times
Europe:
- Trump-Macron smooth over defence spat – BBC
- Why I cannot support the Government’s proposed Brexit deal – Medium
- Midterm Results Point to a New Divide in Politics: Education – WSJ
- Interview with Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn: ’We Can’t Stop Brexit’ – Der Spiegel
- Divided Johnson family unites against Theresa May’s Brexit deal – FT
- What trading on WTO terms alone really means for Britain – UK Trade Forum
- Mario Draghi defends ECB in fiery hearing in Irish parliament – FT
- Brexit negotiators say draft treaty is close – FT
- Brexit distracting UK from bigger challenges, says BoE’s Haldane – Reuters
- One Legacy of Merkel? Angry East German Men Fueling the Far Right – NY Times
- Jo Johnson quits as minister over Theresa May’s Brexit plan – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Tragedy in Xinjiang: ’All My Uighur Sources Are Gone’ – ASI
- Philippines Says It Will Charge Veteran Journalist Critical of Duterte – NY Times
- Jack Ma-Mania Borders on Religious Fervor – Caixin Online
- Xinhua News Agency debuts AI anchors in partnership with search engine Sogou – SCMP
- China’s choreographed trade expo more ’theater’ than deal clincher – Reuters
- Foreign Capital Has Been Propping Up China’s Currency. Here’s What Happens When It Leaves. – Council on Foreign Relations
- Chinese ’gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk – AP
- A Fifth of China’s Housing Is Empty. That’s 50 Million Homes – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Alex Turnbull would fund moderate independents to fight Abbott and Joyce – The Guardian
- WA Libs put five-year ban on party criticism – The West
- Labor promises $160m republic ballot as first step to constitutional change – Canberra Times
- PM Scott Morrison says extremist Islam Australia’s ‘greatest threat’ – New Daily
- Time to lift stone-age secrecy shrouding political donations – Brisbane Times
- From student to drone swarms: how the Chinese Communist Party trains its cadres in Australia – The Age
- ACCC intervenes in troubled NBN project – Independent Australia
- Morrison Government wakes to an awful realisation as election looms – ABC
- NSW Labor elects Michael Daley as new leader after Luke Foley’s resignation – ABC
- Why Australia needs to be a renewable energy superpower – The SMH
- Finance Minister Mathias Cormann denies he engineered coup against former PM – New Daily
- John Howard and the politics of division: Kerry O’Brien looks back – Canberra Times
- Labor’s $160m plan for republic plebiscite – SBS
- ‘Economic powerhouse’ or pipe dream: What happened to developing northern Australia? – ABC
- Is Australia the next big ‘Big Short’ for global investors? – ABC
- The dark heart of Australian banking – The AFR
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