Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bitcoin-Rigging Criminal Probe Focused on Tie to Tether – Bloomberg
- Did Elon Musk Forget About Buffalo? – Bloomberg
- Debt: A Love Story – Wealth Simple
- Amidst Roaring Economy, Troubled Markets Sound Alarms – WSJ
- ‘I Can Be the Bank’: Individual Investors Buy Busted Mortgages – WSJ
- Hedge Fund’s Accounts Liquidated Amid Volatile Energy Market – Bloomberg
- Credit Set for Worst Year Since 2008 as Crashes Roil Market – Bloomberg
- Some Merrill Brokers Say Pay Plan Urges More Customer Debt – WSJ
- Bitcoin Rout Marks Third-Biggest Selloff in Crypto History – Bloomberg
- Federal Reserve Not Likely Swayed by Recent Stock Market Declines – WSJ
- If GE Debt Gets Junked, Markets Have Reason to Shudder – WSJ
- DoubleLine’s Gundlach: Now is the time for capital preservation – Reuters
- Worst Day of an Awful Year Leaves No Corner of Market Unscathed – Bloomberg
- Trump Trade Fight Heads to Global Court as WTO Nears the Rubicon – Bloomberg
- Goldman Says It’s Time for Equity Investors to Boost Their Cash – Bloomberg
- Ray Dalio Sees Parallels to 1930s in Today’s Markets – Bloomberg
- No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250 – Bloomberg
- Global markets retreat sparked by tech stock rout – FT
- The disappointing impact of encouraging students to study more – VOX
Americas:
- The Predatory Lending Machine Crushing Small Businesses Across America – Bloomberg
- The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities – Bloomberg
- Gov’t questions unfair student loan practices – AP
- Amazon Employees Join the Rush to Buy Long Island City Condos – WSJ
- Troops at U.S.-Mexican border to start coming home – Politico
- Desperate Homebuilders Offer Free Vacations and $100,000 Discounts to Lure Buyers – Bloomberg
- The Secret of Amazon’s Success – NY Times
- The New Economy and the Trump Rump – NY Times
- Bank of Canada Plans Thorough Review of Inflation Targeting – Bloomberg
- Kudlow Cheers Economy That Goldman Sees Facing Slowdown in 2019 – Bloomberg
- The Fed Is Tightening More Than It Realizes – Council on Foreign Relations
Europe:
- Germany ends arm sales to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing – Axios
- Taxpayers’ Alliance received over £223k in foreign donations – The Guardian
- Putin is about to gain control of the world’s main law enforcement organization – Washington Post
- Impact of Italy’s Draft Budget on Growth and Fiscal Solvency – PIIE
- Bank of England chief Carney backs UK PM May’s Brexit deal – Reuters
- Revealed: one in four Europeans vote populist – The Guardian
- Leave-supporting Llanelli left reeling as manufacturing industry moves out due to Brexit – The London Economic
- How Brexit will redraw Europe’s financial infrastructure – FT
- The UK’s chief trade negotiator could quit ’any day’ over Theresa May’s Brexit deal – Business Insider
- Brexit hardliners have shown they are not up to the job – FT
- May seeks business backing for Brexit plan – BBC
- Brexit is a class betrayal. So why is Labour colluding in it? – The Guardian
Asia:
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- World Bank Offers Timely, Dubious Praise for Belt and Road – JamesTown
- Inside China’s ‘tantrum diplomacy’ at APEC – Washington Post
- How China Walled Off the Internet – NY Times
- China Is Paying for Most of Trump’s Trade War, Research Says – Bloomberg
- Indian central bank to rethink policies amid government pressure – FT
- China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real – Foreign Policy
- Porsche defies China slowdown thanks to rich millennials – Nikkei
- US hints at evicting China from WTO? Doubtful – BBC
- Backlash at Chinese university shows limits to surveillance – AP
Trans-Tasman:
- More than 30 federal MPs have failed to declare any free trips, gifts and the donors – The Age
- Liberals in NSW have voted to expel former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from the party – Weekly Times
- Epidemic of time theft: Australians work two months unpaid overtime a year – The Guardian
- The radical idea of offering every person a government-funded job is finding new supporters – ABC
- ‘Scandal’: NSW coal power plants will kill thousands before they close – The SMH
- Morrison pours fuel on the extremist fire on our doorstep – The SMH
- The carbon tax that would leave households better off while addressing climate change – ABC
- How China diverts, then spies on Australia’s internet traffic – The SMH
- We still live here: public housing tenants fight for their place in the city – The Conversation
- Call for Hayne to break up the banks – The SMH
- Expert says international students, not permanent migrants, driving congestion in cities – SBS
- Labor to dispense with bipartisanship in power plan targeting coal workers and energy efficiency – The SMH
- Leaderless Australian government outsources all responsibility – New Daily
- Record-low wage growth is threatening social cohesion, RBA governor says – ABC
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