Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Oil Price Is Now Controlled By Just Three Men – Bloomberg
- Buying Stakes in Private-Equity Firms, Not Just Their Funds, Pays Big – WSJ
- Global bond and equity markets shrink $5tn in 2018 – FT
- Wall Street bankers are throwing excessive parties to dodge taxes – NY Post
- Global trends in interest rates – VOX
- Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World – Vice
- Bitcoin Cash Clash Is Costing Billions With No End in Sight – Bloomberg
- What We Really Think About Millennials at Work – NY Times
Americas:
- ‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America – Washington Post
- California fire: What started as a tiny brush fire became the state’s deadliest wildfire. Here’s how – LA Times
- Is Trump country really better off under Trump? No. It’s falling further behind. – Washington Post
- America’s two economies remain far apart – Brookings
- Why the Housing Market Is Slumping Despite a Booming Economy – NY Times
- Trump’s Trade Warrior – The Atlantic
- Trump’s White House Chaos Is Worsening – Bloomberg
Europe:
- New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Brexit – New Yorker
- Finland’s president rakes memory for source of Trump remark – AP
- Market pressure will not save the Brexit deal – FT
- Michel Barnier proposes extending Brexit transition to 2022 – FT
- Brexiteers desperate to find 6 MPs to trigger no-confidence vote in the PM – The Sun
- The Brexit deal: 40 rebuttals to Mr Steerpike’s 40 horrors – The Spectator
- Russia’s Prokopchuk May Take Over as Interpol Head, Times Says – Bloomberg
- UK running out of food warehouse space as no-deal Brexit fears rise – The Guardian
- May’s broken promises on the ECJ, the backstop, customs – Conservative Home
- Brexit Is Killing the Great British Curry House – Bloomberg
- Brexit: ‘Stand up to Brussels bullies’, Dominic Raab tells Theresa May – The Times
- Compromise on Brexit? The right would rather drive us to destruction – The Guardian
Asia:
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- The Land That Failed to Fail – NY Times
- Pence’s Sharp China Attacks Fuel Fears of New Cold War – Bloomberg
- U.S.-China Divisions Exposed After One Phrase ‘Torpedoed’ Pacific Accord – WSJ
- China ‘has taken the gloves off’ in its thefts of U.S. technology secrets – LA Times
- Chinese surveillance group faces crippling US ban – FT
- China’s former chief trade negotiator criticises Beijing’s ‘unwise’ tactics in US tariff war – SCMP
- The American Dream Is Alive. In China. – NY Times
- China cuts US Treasury holdings by most in 8 months in September – FT
- China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real – Foreign Policy
- US-China fight for influence spills over at Apec summit – FT
- Why Beijing isn’t Marxist enough for China’s radical millennials – SCMP
- China matches Nato in information arms race with deal for ‘Ferrari of war room software’ – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Labor wants anti-corruption watchdog – 9News
- Australia is doing well on many fronts – The SMH
- Tony Abbott rejects warnings, urges Scott Morrison to move Israel embassy – Canberra Times
- Victoria’s election result will determine whether bosses who underpay staff face jail – ABC
- ‘Uber Eats and Deliveroo should be very worried’: Ruling to reshape gig economy – The Age
- Victorian election ad bliz by ‘NRA-inspired’ gun lobby SIFA to weaken gun laws – Michael West
- Whistleblower for ASIC says watchdog abandoned him to deal with online harassment alone – ABC
- New Australian homes are the smallest they’ve been in 22 years – The Age
- The policy chaos eroding our faith in democracy – Canberra Times
- Former SBS boss says entire ABC board should consider resigning – The SMH
- You may have got a top ATAR score but a year on, does anyone care? – Canberra Times
- Fairfax-Ipsos poll has a simple message to MPs: cut carbon emissions as well as power bills – Canberra Times
- The ScoMo Express backfires – The Monthly
- Victoria’s forestry fight: how the election is raising the environmental stakes – The Guardian
- ‘Legend in his own lunch time’: Treasurer rips into Cabinet colleague – 2GB
- Banking royal commission hears from big bank bosses – ABC
- Labor to face pressure on environment policies after embarrassing stuff-up – The Guardian
- Property investors aren’t the only ones worried about a possible CGT – Interest.co.nz
- Don’t mess with the middle class – Interest.co.nz