Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- I’ve covered nine financial crises since the 1960s. Here’s what I learned – The Guardian
- Bezos Selfie Controversy Triggers Alarm For Billionaires Worldwide – Bloomberg
- The case for an active fiscal policy – VOX
- Trade war opens commodity floodgates – Nikkei Asian Review
- Two hundred years of health and medical care – VOX
- Wealth concentration returning to ‘levels last seen during the Roaring Twenties,’ according to new research – Washington Post
- The economic geography of transition countries – VOX
- The macroeconomic implications of a global trade war – VOX
- Low-level inflation will prevent an economic heart attack – FT
- Tesla’s delivery team gutted in recent job cuts – sources – Reuters
- Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work – IMF
- Export booms in sluggish economies – VOX
Americas:
- Here’s Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans – BuzzFeed
- John Dingell: My last words for America – Washington Post
- Average tax refund down 8% so far this season – CNN
- U.S. steel tariff ‘boondoggle’ offers more exclusions to China than Canada – CBC
- Tax code changes leave Americans asking, ‘What happened to my refund?’ – NBC
- New poll finds overwhelming support for an annual wealth tax – The Hill
- Wall Street’s Slide Hurts New York; City Loses Nearly $1 Billion in Tax Revenue – NY Times
- The problem with Silicon Valley’s obsession with blitzscaling growth – Quartz
- Democrats Aim to Limit Corporate Windfall From Trump Tax Cut – NY Times
- The Global Con Hidden in Trump’s Tax Reform Law, Revealed – NY Times
Europe:
- No Deal is pretty likely – Medium
- No-deal Brexit risks rise as UK-Japan trade talks stall – FT
- No-deal Brexit ferry contract scrapped – BBC
- ’Real chance’ of Irish unity poll if no deal – BBC
- Why Labour is dangerously foolish to turn against freedom of movement – New Statesman
- Finland’s ’free cash’ experiment fails to boost employment – The Guardian
- How London won the race for the renminbi – FT
- German Regulators Just Outlawed Facebook’s Whole Ad Business – Wired
- Brexit has already cost average UK worker more than week’s wages due to post-referendum price rises, research shows – The Independent
- Where Europe Would Be Hurt Most by a No-Deal Brexit – NY Times
Asia:
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- The Internet, Divided Between the U.S. and China, Has Become a Battleground – WSJ
- Chinese firms are not all serial intellectual-property thieves – The Economist
- China Is Having an Unexpected Privacy Awakening – Slate
- Chinese Officials Force Muslims to Drink, Eat Pork At Festival – RFA
- China is worried an AI arms race could lead to accidental war – The Verge
- How Japan (Eventually) Changed the World With Zero Rates – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Malcolm Turnbull received direct warnings about paid lobbyists who were simultaneously occupying powerful roles in the Liberal party – The Guardian
- The caretaker government where little care is being taken – Canberra Times
- NBN write-down inevitable after ‘disastrous’ rollout, says ex-boss – The Age
- Royal commission finds Barnaby Joyce ‘ignored the law’ – Canberra Times
- GetUp poll points to Abbott electoral defeat – The SMH
- Regional NSW becomes key battleground in state election, as voters look for alternatives – ABC
- Migrants face deportation if they move, under population control visas – The SMH
- Is Howard’s Kyoto con trick about to be played out again? – Michael West
- Uighurs fled persecution in China. Now Beijing’s harassment has followed them to Australia – Washington Post
- Green waste-to-energy power plant could solve power reliability in regions – ABC
- Auckland’s housing shortage may be about 20% smaller than earlier estimates – Interest.co.nz
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‘We can do better than a capital gains tax’ – Interest.co.nz
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Ghost Immigrants: Paying for Canadian citizenship – The Fifth Estate…..what odds the same schemes operating in Australia and New Zealand?…