Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers – Reveal
- A self-driving car can choose who dies in a fatal crash. These are the ethical considerations. – WEF
- Warren Buffett sends ’strong signal’ to market with Berkshire Hathaway’s $1 billion buyback – CNBC
- Has Buffett Lost It?! – The Brooklyn Investor
- David Stockman: Epic downturn is here, brace for 40% market plunge – CNBC
- Amazon drops free shipping minimum in tussle for holiday sales – Reuters
- New Funds Take Pay Cut If They Can’t Beat the Market – WSJ
Americas:
- Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities – WSJ
- Their Soybeans Piling Up, Farmers Hope Trade War Ends Before Beans Rot – NY Times
- Farmers round on Trump as demand for soyabeans dries up – FT
- Congress has a job — but has largely stopped doing it – Washington Post
- The cliché is true: this is the most important US midterm, ever – Lowy Institute
- How Congress Stopped Working – ProPublica
- Stunning early-voting numbers ahead of Election Day – NBC
- Two Vastly Different Election Outcomes That Hinge on a Few Dozen Close Contests – NY Times
- The President’s Lies – The Atlantic
- Exclusive poll: Trump would lose the 2020 election to every woman who might run against him – Axios
Europe:
- Brexit is teaching Britain its true place in the world – FT
- Theresa May to warn pro-Brexit ministers time is running out – FT
- Brussels speeds up Italy budget battle – Politico
- The future of pro-EU sentiment in the UK – VOX
- Bulgarian Officials Caught Accepting Bitcoin Bribes to Issue Passports = Bitcoinist
- Most British voters want Brexit compromise, but Tories don’t – Politico
Asia:
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- Ivanka Trump’s Business Wins Approval for 16 New Chinese Trademarks Despite Shutting Down – CREW
- U.S. soybean sales to China down 94% thanks to Trump trade war – Axios
- China’s Xi Jinping hits out at ‘law of the jungle’ trade policies – FT
- China Seeks Allies as Trump’s Trade War Mounts. It Won’t Be Easy. – NY Times
- Foreigners in China WeChat group investigated after racial slurs, Nanking massacre references – SCMP
- Not just ‘containment’: America’s real goal may be to undermine China’s Communist Party – SCMP
- China Developing World’s Most Massive Population Surveillance System – The Federalist
Trans-Tasman:
- Labor pulls further in front of Coalition as Morrison’s disapproval rating rises – The Guardian
- Single parents forced to attend ‘story time’ or lose Centrelink payments – The Guardian
- The Morrison government’s own threatened species experts say Australia is failing in its plan to save wildlife from extinction – The Age
- My Health Record system crashes as Australians rush to opt out – The SMH
- Gagged: A brazen attack on Parliament and the public interest – The Age
- Patriotism, the last refuge of the scoundrel, waves its flag – New Daily
- PM denies plan for two federal elections next year – New Daily
- How the Catholic schools sector outplayed the Coalition – The Guardian
- Drastic dual election plan considered as government tries to regain ground – The SMH
- Inside one of Australia’s most productive prisons and the program turning inmates lives around – ABC
- Foxtel’s first tilt at cricket takes massive ratings hit – The Age
- Ghost bus: the ‘ScoMo Express’ hits the runway rather than the road – The SMH
- For us to tackle climate change, companies need to pay their tax – The Guardian
- Consortium including CBA to buy $1.6b PEXA – SBS
- Sydney city council considers 24hr trading – SBS
- Property boom far from over, say investors – ABC
- Are the banks the problem, or the rules we’ve given them? – Interest.co.nz
- Westpac boss sees bank mortgage competition hotting up – Interest.co.nz
