Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Winklevoss twins claim famed crypto evangelist stole 5,000 bitcoins from them – Ars Technica
- Peter Thiel thinks the next Google won’t come from Silicon Valley – Quartz
- Can the U.S. Keep Its High-Tech Edge? – Ian Hathaway
- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Repurchases More Than $900 Million of Stock – WSJ
- Cannabis producers could be chasing global market worth $194 billion in seven years: BMO report – Financial Post
Americas:
- Democrats hold 7 point advantage ahead of midterms as Trump’s base comes back home: NBC – CNBC
- Republicans Need A Systematic Polling Error To Win The House – FiveThirtyEight
- Another Trump Scoop, a Giddy Reaction and a Reporter Under Fire – NY Times
- U.S. militia groups head to border, stirred by Trump’s call to arms – Washington Post
- ‘Full Trumpism’: The president’s apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity – Washington Post
- In Midterms, the Right to Vote Is Still at Issue, Too – NY Times
- Almost Half the Top Jobs in Trump’s State Department are Still Empty – The Atlantic
- Bay Area, a reluctant metropolis, needs to become enthusiastic instead – San Fran Chronicle
- Here’s How Polling Has Changed Since 2016 – Huffington Post
- Michael Bloomberg to air $5 million in ads before midterm elections to tout Democrats — and himself – Washington Post
- We Have A Housing Crisis In Big Cities, And Democrats Need To Solve It – BuzzFeed
- Brazil’s new finance minister eyes ‘Pinochet-style’ fix for economy – FT
- Economists reverse claims that $15 Seattle minimum wage hurt workers, admit it was largely beneficial – BoingBoing
Europe:
- Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. Sanctions – NY Times
- Theresa May’s chances of striking Irish border deal ’50-50’, say EU officials – The Guardian
- Revealed: Theresa May’s secret Brexit deal – The Times
- Italy spending plans a recipe for all Europe, says Di Maio – FT
- UK business leaders call for ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit deal – FT
- Russia vows to help Iran counter US oil sanctions – FT
Asia:
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- Chinese economists blame ‘China model’ for US trade war – FT
- Roughly one in eight of Tokyo’s new adults is foreign-born, study shows – Japan Today
- Trump to host dinner with Xi at G20 summit, but will there be a deal? – SCMP
- Overheard in the Long Room: corporate China – FT
- Activists urge deep scrutiny of China at U.N. rights gathering this week – Reuters
- Xi to Face World Tired of Empty Promises at Big China Trade Fair – Bloomberg
- Desperate middle class takes big risks to get money out of China – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- As African youths continued to hit the headlines this week, members of the community say there’s never been a more difficult time to be young and South Sudanese in Victoria – The Age
- Media coverage of African offenders ‘skewed’, warns Melbourne chief judge – ABC
- Major Korean lenders have ruled out any role in funding Adani’s contentious Australian coal project – ABC
- Coal mine rejuvenation bill could be left with NSW taxpayers – ABC
- Wealthy Queensland family lobbied for inland rail line to run past their airport – The Guardian
- Our oldies have never had it so good – The Age
- Renters now in the majority in over 40 per cent of Sydney: report – The SMH
- Sending refugees from Nauru to New Zealand would be a “giant magnet” for people smugglers – The Guardian
- Victoria’s ‘madhouse’ prisons are expensive, but are they making the state more dangerous? – ABC
- Why boat-stopper PM let the kids off Nauru – The New Daily
- Migration by numbers – Inside Story
- Regulators tell NZ banks to pull their socks up – Interest.co.nz