Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Tesla shares fall on report SEC asks judge to hold Elon Musk in contempt for violating deal – CNBC
- What’s wrong with MMT? – App Link
- Why Controlling 5G Could Mean Controlling the World – NY Times
- Riding Boom, Securitization Industry Wonders ‘How Much Longer?’ – Bloomberg
- The nothingness value of cryptocurrencies – FT
Americas:
- The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America – The Verge
- Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen: Far from retired, nowhere near done – Marketplace
- Yellen Rips Trump’s Grasp of the Federal Reserve and What It Does – Bloomberg
- Millennials Are Facing $1 Trillion in Debt – Bloomberg
- Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights – Politico
- How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing – NY Times
- Paying Students to Play Would Ruin College Sports – NY Times
- Tax the Rich? Here’s a Modest Proposal – NY Times
- The Fed Has Done Much to Delay the Next Recession – Bloomberg
- Most Economists See U.S. Recession by 2021, Survey Shows – Bloomberg
- Workism Is Making Americans Miserable – The Atlantic
Europe:
- U.K.’s Theresa May to Consider Delay to Brexit Date – Bloomberg
- Labour party to back second referendum on Brexit – FT
- Labour announce backing for a second Brexit referendum – Sky
- Daughter Of Putin’s Spokesman Working In European Parliament – RadioFreeEurope
- Bankers Don’t Flee London, Despite Exodus Predictions – WSJ
- Europe Against the Net – Buzz Machine
- ECB Gets Counterintuitive Advice to Soften Slowdown: Raise Rates – Bloomberg
- ‘Austerity, That’s What I Know’: The Making of a U.K. Millennial Socialist – NY Times
- The Mysterious Finances of the Brexit Campaign’s Biggest Backer – Bloomberg
- If Labour aids a Tory Brexit it will be destroyed by what follows – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Trump Extends China Tariff Deadline After ‘Substantial’ Progress – Bloomberg
- American families of missing Uighurs speak out at DC event – AP News
- World’s largest monument to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre unveiled ahead of 30th anniversary – Hong Kong FP
- Why some Chinese immigrants living in Canada live in silent fear – The Globe & Mail
- With China tariffs delayed, Beijing faces startup dilemma – Tech Crunch
- China’s powerful surveillance state has created at least four billionaires – Bloomberg
- China’s Entrepreneurs Are Wary of Its Future – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- After Scott Morrison’s announcement of his new climate change policy we know two things – The Guardian
- Australia’s first offshore wind farm being stalled by Morrison Government – MUA
- We should be doing more’: Liberal candidate Dave Sharma breaks ranks on climate change – The SMH
- Labor up 52-48 in latest Essential Poll as voters split on Medevac bill – The Guardian
- Labor’s capital gains changes will hurt those on less than $80,000, Josh Frydenberg says. Is that right? – ABC
- Evidence for man-made global warming hits ‘gold standard’ according to scientists – SBS
- Snowy Hydro 2.0 project officially approved, funded by federal government – SBS
- Labor given new legal advice that it could revoke Adani approvals – The Guardian
- Aussie tech businesses losing customers due to the new anti-encryption laws – IT News
- Australia’s populist moment has arrived – The Conversation
- Big four legacy systems cop another spanking from RBA over slow NPP progress – IT News
- There are more properties on the market now than at any time since 2012 — and no-one’s buying – ABC
- RBNZ’s Geoff Bascand zeros in on banks’ use of high leverage – Interest.co.nz
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