Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Trump’s protectionism might just save the WTO – Washington Post
- What plunging oil prices may be telling us about the stock market and global economy – MarketWatch
- The CEO obsession with bitcoin and blockchain is over – Axios
- Aggregating labour supply elasticities – VOX
- Global trends in interest rates – VOX
- Commuting time and family labour supply decisions – VOX
Americas:
- Amazon Chooses New York City and Northern Virginia for Additional Headquarters – WSJ
- Hillary Will Run Again – WSJ
- U.S. on a Course to Spend More on Debt Than Defense – WSJ
- Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Focus On Strengthening Democracy At Home – NP
- ’A train wreck’: Veterans haven’t received GI Bill benefits for months – NBC
- Why Americans, particularly millennials, have fallen out of love with cars – Chicago Tribune
- No ’blue wave,’ but Democrats’ midterm success sinking in – AP
- U.S. Car-Import Probe Advances as Trump Plans Trade Team Meeting – Bloomberg
- America Is a Dream – The Atlantic
- Inside Trump’s car obsession – Axios
- The new boomtowns: Why more people are relocating to ‘secondary’ cities – Washington Post
- Oil pucks and pellets; Canada eyes new ways to move stranded crude – Reuters
Europe:
- Barnier says Brexit treaty text almost ready – FT
- Senior Ministers Are Telling Theresa May To Go For A No Deal Brexit If The EU Won’t Make Concessions – BuzzFeed
- Russian sanctions: why ‘isolation is impossible’ – FT
- French minister Le Maire insists EU is close to digital tax deal – Reuters
- UK employers plan to hold tight on pay despite labour shortages – CIPD – Reuters
Asia:
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- In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception – NY Times
- U.S., China Resume Talks to Cool Trade Tensions – WSJ
- Honda to shift production of SUV to China from US amid trade war – Nikkei
- U.S. Adopts New Battle Plan to Fight China’s Theft of Trade Secrets – WSJ
- SoftBank Targets $20 Billion IPO for Japanese Mobile Unit – WSJ
- China extends crackdown on labour protests as activism spreads – FT
- Alibaba Singles Day sales top $30 billion – CNN
- China extends crackdown on labour protests as activism spreads – FT
- In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs. Or Make Their Own. – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- A Labor senator has described his battle with alcoholism four decades ago – 9News
- Tech sector says Peter Dutton’s encrypted message ‘back door’ will jeopardise digital security – ABC
- ‘We are under assault’: Major universities go to war with Morrison government over research cuts – The SMH
- Tetchy Scott Morrison still can’t explain why he’s in the job – The Guardian
- Good riddance to Guthrie and Milne. The ABC needs grown-ups in charge – The Guardian
- Cops catch 38 drivers on their phones at traffic lights at one intersection – by dressing up as windscreen washers – Daily Mail
- ABC ‘refused entry’ to union boss Sally McManus – The SMH
- Judge blocks Westpac’s $35m deal with ASIC for breaching lending laws – ABC
- Morrison wants Muslim leaders to do more to prevent terrorism, but what more can they do? – The Conversation
- Small businesses regularly beg clients for payments – The Age
- Region ‘locked-in’ to at least 30 years of intense droughts – Armidale Express
- Snowy Hydro says multibillion-dollar energy project doesn’t need cost-benefit test – The SMH
- Wage Theft, Economic Distress The impact of wage theft on Queensland’s Economy & Workers – McKell Institute
- Police and nurses working together to tackle increasing number of people threatening suicide – ABC
- Energy companies push back on Coalition threat to break them up – The Guardian
- Senator Eric Abetz indicates there will be more questions for ABC board following Four Corners program – ABC
- Twyford lauds ‘innovative’ financing of infrastructure – Interest.co.nz