Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Casting Light on Central Bank Digital Currencies – IMF
- The seven deadly paradoxes of cryptocurrency – Bank Underground
- WeWork’s Rise: How a Sublet Start-Up Is Taking Over – NY Times
- Triple B corporate bond bulls aren’t blinking – FT
- Big companies are pushing governments around – FT
- Five US tech giants spend combined $115bn on buying back stock – FT
Americas:
- Trump’s Tax Cut Was Supposed to Change Corporate Behavior. Here’s What Happened. – NY Times
- Inside Trump’s Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval – Washington Post
- Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties – LA Times
- Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? – The Atlantic
- White House creates “policy time” for Trump to encourage work – News Week
- Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Isn’t Just Shameful—It Should Be Illegal – The Atlantic
- Fewer International Students Heading to the U.S. – WSJ
- Amazon’s Move to Long Island City Sparks Condo Frenzy – WSJ
- Why New York Is Paying Amazon $3 Billion – NY Mag
- NY taxpayers to pay $48,000 per Amazon HQ job – Fox
- Born-Again Free Traders? – Weekly Standard
- The Trump-GOP 2020 doomsday scenario – Axios
- New York Taxpayers Are Buying A Helipad For The Richest Man In The World – Huffington Post
- Will New York Fund Amazon Subsidies or Student Debt Relief? – Capital and Main
- Trump may be a disaster at home. But he’s even worse overseas. – Washington Post
- This tax break could be worth up to nearly $1B for Amazon – The Real Deal
Europe:
- Italy: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2018 Article IV Consultation – IMF
- May’s Brexit compromise comes with high price – FT
- Brexit text agreed in talks breakthrough – BBC
- Fintan O’Toole: Historians will not believe sheer ignorance of Brexit supporters – The Irish Times
- Pilots report UFOs off Irish coast – BBC
- Europe must cut a grand bargain with Italy – FT
- Brussels prepares to adopt delayed no deal Brexit contingency plan – FT
- UK and EU provisionally agree text on Brexit withdrawal treaty – FT
- The Brexit secretary is privately pushing for a no-deal Brexit – Business Insider
- Why Italy’s economy is stagnating – FT
- Barnier fights EU nation rebellion over fear he’ll grant UK fishing reprieve – The Sun
Asia:
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- Pence: It’s up to China to avoid a cold war – Washington Post
- China’s latest financial data paints a bleak economic outlook amid trade war with US – SCMP
- In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception – NY Times
- Bank of Japan’s balance sheet now larger than country’s GDP – Reuters
- China’s top trade war negotiator Liu He prepares to head to the US to pave way for Xi-Trump meeting – SCMP
- Honda to shift production of SUV to China from US amid trade war – Nikkei
Trans-Tasman:
- Renters Unveil World’s Tiniest Violin For Home Owners Whose Properties Have Fallen In Value – The Shovel
- Crossbenchers to push forward with bill for anti-corruption body – The Guardian
- Australia becoming more corrupt, warns former judge – The SMH
- Jerusalem embassy proposal delays Australia-Indonesia trade agreement – The SMH
- Targeting Tony Abbott: inside the micro-campaigns to unseat the former PM – The Guardian
- Woodside boss Peter Coleman calls for Australia to introduce a carbon price – ABC
- Australians only have one more day to opt out of My Health – SBS
- House prices could drop 30 per cent in ‘deep recession’ scenario: UBS – The SMH
- Diabetes fastest growing chronic condition – The SMH
- I was a private investigator, spying for insurance companies. Here’s what I found – ABC
- Energy generators cool on Coalition vow to build new power plant – The Age
- Government under fire over rush to promote new power generation – The Guardian
- Energy ‘confusion-opoly’: Why 1 million households are paying too much for electricity – ABC
- Wages yet to pick up much momentum – ABC
- GST reforms passes senate – The West
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Housing conditions ‘right for further LVR loosening’ – Interest.co.nz
- Buoyant start to summer housing market with volumes up and prices steady – Interest.co.nz