Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay – Coin Desk
- I was wrong on climate change. Why can’t other conservatives admit it, too? – Washington Post
- Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines – Axios
- Some international regulators have been captured by producer interests – The Economist
- ‘Keeping At It’ Review: The Last Monetary Hero – WSJ
- Capitulation is the wrong word for the bitcoin market – FT Alphaville
- Bitcoin Falls Below $4,000 as Cryptocurrency Collapse Worsens – WSJ
Americas:
- Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal – WSJ
- GM Says It Will Cut 15% of Salaried Workforce in North America – WSJ
- The Monopolization of America – NY Times
- Democrats smash Watergate record for House popular vote in midterms – NBC
- GM to slash jobs and production, cancel some car models – Reuters
- Amazon, With Little Fanfare, Emerges as an Advertising Giant – WSJ
- The U.S. Housing Boom Is Coming to an End, Starting in Dallas – WSJ
- When we hurt migrants, we hurt Americans – Houston Chronicle
- Billion-dollar deal: Google pays $1 billion for huge Mountain View business park – Mercury News
- Trump demands action to reduce deficit, pushes new deficit spending – Washington Post
- Borrowers Are Tapping Their Homes for Cash, Even as Rates Rise – WSJ
- GM to cut production at several plants, reduce salaried workforce by 15 percent – CNBC
- G.M. to Idle Plants and Cut Thousands of Jobs as Sales Slow – NY Times
Europe:
- Why Theresa May’s Brexit deal deserves support – FT
- A perfectly predictable Brexit – FT
- Swiss voters reject ‘self-determination’ initiative – FT
- Pockets of risk in European housing markets – VOX
- Brexit deal ’will cost UK £100bn’ by 2030 – BBC
- Russia seizes Ukrainian naval ships – BBC
- Russia opens civil case against Google over search results – Reuters
- In China’s hinterland, car market growth engine sputters – Reuters
Asia:
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- Trump Expects to Move Ahead With Boost on China Tariffs – WSJ
- Trump suggests US could slap 10% tariffs on iPhones and laptops imported from China – CNBC
- It’s Official: China’s E-Commerce King is a Communist – WSJ
- Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies – Tech Review
- First gene-edited babies claimed in China – AP
- How Cheap Labor Drives China’s A.I. Ambitions – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Kelly O’Dwyer says Liberals now viewed as “homophobic, anti-women, climate-change deniers” – SBS
- Morrison government shock: Julia Banks quits the Liberal Party to sit on the crossbench – The SMH
- Man That Insisted Banking Royal Commission Was Unnecessary Insists Federal ICAC Is Unnecessary – Betoota Advocate
- More than 4,300 federal public servants believe they witnessed corrupt behaviour in one year – ABC
- Scott Morrison tells students striking over climate change to be ‘less activist’ – The Guardian
- PM signals May election as Liberal MP defects to crossbench – ABC
- Labor says government taking too long to protect gay students, will introduce bill – SBS
- $400m sham contracting class action rocks NBN supplier, telco sector – IT News
- Liberal senators dig in as divisions over LGBT students widen – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison’s backflip over a national integrity commission – New Daily
- Protest movement swells as WA Premier green-lights fracking – The SMH
- Pilbara migrant jobs push back on the table – The West
- Welcome to the new Housing New Zealand – Interest.co.nz