Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Amazon’s cloud business is competing with its customers – CNBC
- Global retirement crisis is main threat to investment industry, warn chiefs – FT
- Investors Rev Up the Risk in Subprime Auto Deals – WSJ
- Deutsche Bank chief dismisses takeover speculation – Reuters
- Federal Reserve prepares to give investors murkier view on policy – FT
- Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds – WSJ
- Global Growth Cools, Leaving Scars of ’08 Unhealed – NY Times
- The yield curve is not forecasting a recession – Calafia Beach Pundit
- Why we stopped trusting elites – The Guardian
- Market liquidity, leverage, and regulation ten years after the crisis – VOX
- The Stock Market’s Dangers Are Easier to See Now – NY Times
Americas:
- How George H.W. Bush pushed the United States to embrace free trade – Washington Post
- Curtains for the Clintons – NY Times
- Despite Big House Losses, G.O.P. Shows No Signs of Course Correction – NY Times
- Are we at ‘peak America’? – Washington Post
- America Probably Has Enough Parking Spaces for Multiple Black Fridays – City Lab
- OK, Computer: How Much Is My House Worth? – WSJ
Europe:
- Let’s be honest about what’s really driving Brexit: bigotry – Guardian SJWs
- Relax – a no-deal Brexit will be fine – Money Week
- Worst riot in a decade engulfs Paris; Macron vows action – AP
- Brexit: Facts vs Fear, with Stephen Fry – YouTube
- Europe will never be a top-tier geopolitical power – FT
- Gove fears MPs could back referendum – BBC
- Britain should have no fear in pursuing a WTO Brexit – FT
- Global Growth Cools, Leaving Scars of ’08 Unhealed – The Local
- Revealed: Brexit legal advice could sink Theresa May – The Times
- A European Goes to Trump’s Washington – NY Times
Asia:
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- The West may be wrong about China’s social credit system – Washington Post
- ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Flops at the Chinese Box Office – Variety
- Trade truce provides time for Beijing to stabilise – FT
- US and China agree to suspend new tariffs – BBC
- The US-China trade war is on hold – The Economist
- Why are so many Chinese officials killing themselves? – SCMP
- China wants academics and think tank members to help defuse tensions with US – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Malcolm Turnbull launches spectacular intervention, tells Scott Morrison to call early election – ABC
- Morrison: “If We Have A Federal ICAC, What Will Become Of Our Coal Industry?” – Betoota Advocate
- Unprecedented and complex encryption access laws must not be rushed, nor politicised – Law Council
- Coal, coal, coal and soaring emissions – as a Liberal, I have had enough – The Guardian
- Supermarket ban sees ‘80% drop’ in plastic bag consumption nationwide – The Guardian
- Rising coal prices ‘biggest’ contributor to lifting power prices: report – The SMH
- Fear and loathing in the Liberals as wipeout looms – The Guardian
- Flying Doctor patients to be treated in new ’emergency ward in the sky’ jet aircraft – ABC
- Commonwealth Bank customers’ medical data exposed in potential privacy breach – ABC
- NSW Liberals want a federal election ‘this afternoon’ as Canberra’s damage is ‘unbelievable’ – ABC
- Turnbull “sought to politicise a state emergency” – and it killed his career, says Weatherill – Indaily
- Minister’s blast: Power company ‘record profits’ must stop – The Guardian
- Morrison urges Liberals to ‘unite and fight’ to win the next election – Canberra Times
- Fonterra milk price forecast out on a limb again – Interest.co.nz
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