Digital art by Joon Ahn
Global Macro/Markets
- The Folly of Investment Platforms – Bloomberg
- How the Fed Can Engineer a Soft Landing in the Economy – Bloomberg
- Recessions never happen when they’re expected, so investors should hold their nerve – SCMP
- World’s Oceans Are Warming Faster, Studies Show, Fueling Storms and Sea Rise – Insideclimatenews
Americas
- Shutdown hits American farmers already hurt by China trade war – Guardian
- Can Trump Fire Powell? Only Custom Stands in His Way – Bloomberg
- Fed Ready to Pause on Interest Rate Increases – NY Times
- Donald Trump’s team had 100 contacts with Russian-linked officials: report – USAToday (no collusion /s)
- Venezuela’s inflation rate, which reached 1,350,000% in 2018, is expected to hit a staggering 10,000,000% – RTE
- Man at B.C. town hall asks Prime Minister Trudeau to push Trump ‘off a cliff’ – TheStar (well, he’s on a list now isn’t he?)
Europe/Middle East
- “Yellow vests” protest movement knocks out 60% of all speed cameras in France – BBC
- Russians Indicted by Mueller Linked to Murder of Journalists in Central African Republic – Time
- Thousands of students skip school to march through Brussels streets pleading for stronger action against climate change. – Brussels Times
Asia/sub-continent
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- Chinese car sales fall for first time in more than 20 years – Guardian
- Largest strike in history is taking place in India – Morningstar Online
- A U.S.-China Trade Deal Is Only Half the Fight – Bloomberg
- Mutiny and Surrender in India’s Banking Elite – Bloomberg
- Asian Development Bank chimes in with dire prediction for China’s 2019 economic growth if trade war deteriorates to worst-case scenario – SCMP
- Xi’s US strategy recalls Mao’s ‘protracted war’ – Nikkei Asian Review
- Ex-Australian PM: US-China trade talks won’t close ‘systemic’ rift – – Nikkei Asian Review…Rudd is right on this…
- Will Beijing follow through on industrial reform? That’s the next big question in the US-China trade war – SCMP
- Ebola-like virus found in Chinese bats – SCMP
Australia/New Zealand
- Darling River fish kill: cotton industry says it won’t be ‘the whipping boy’ for disaster – Guardian
- Teen deported after typing ‘I have a bomb’ into Air NZ messaging app – Stuff
- Greens call for Royal Commission into mismanagement of the Murray-Darling basin – ABC
- Heatwave in Australia wipes out one-third of flying foxes in Queensland state, in an unprecedented mass death of the fruit bats amid climate change. – Brinkwire
- Churn factor: One third of the Senate has been wiped out since the last election – Canberratimes
Other
- ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism – Guardian
- U.S. Should Go Back to the Moon, But Not Because the Chinese Have – Bloomberg
- Facial recognition: Coming to a gadget near you –SCMP
- Hubble finds record-breaking quasar with brightness of 600 trillion suns – Astronomers are hoping the discovery will provide an insight into the birth of galaxies more than 12 billion years ago. – SKY