Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Everything You Know About Global Order Is Wrong – Foreign Policy
- Google Employees Are Fighting With Executives Over Pay – Wired
- Resentment of the Wealthy Is Not a Policy – Bloomberg
- America Is Producing the Wrong Kind of Oil – Bloomberg
- Do not underestimate the risk of an iron curtain in tech supply chains – FT
- The rise of the right-wing globalists – New Statesman
- The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record – Wired
- Amazon Notches Third Record Profit in a Row – WSJ
Americas:
- Presidential Polling on Howard Schultz for President – Medium
- Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Is an Old Idea and Its Time Has Come – New Yorker
- Trump Discusses ‘Fake News,’ and Its Repercussions, With New York Times Publisher – NY Times
- Excerpts From Trump’s Interview With The New York Times – NY Times
- European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate – CNN
- America colonisation ‘cooled climate’ – BBC
- Fed policy turn not good news for Trump as risks mount – Reuters
- Raising Your Own Rates Even if the Fed Won’t – WSJ
- Death toll in deep freeze reaches 18, as weekend warmth settles in across the country – ABC
- ‘Medicare for All’ Will Terrify Voters – WSJ
- Payrolls surge by 304,000, smashing estimates despite government shutdown – CNBC
- Is Venezuela’s 20-Ton Pile of Gold About to Head to Dubai? – Bloomberg
- The audacity of America’s oligarchy – FT
Europe:
- So, poorer Brexiters voted to be worse off? There’s nothing wrong in that – The Guardian
- “Birmingham isn’t a big city at peak times”: How poor public transport explains the UK’s productivity puzzle – City Metric
- EU and UK regulators agree Brexit deal for asset managers – FT
- Potential Deutsche Bank Deal Gains German Government Support – WSJ
- EU accuses eight banks of collusion in sovereign bond market – FT
- German anger builds over dangerous handling of Brexit by EU ideologues – The Telegraph
- The Messier Brexit Gets, the Better Europe Looks – NY Times
Asia:
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- New Site Exposes How Apple Censors Apps in China – The Intercept
- Can baijiu, China’s sorghum firewater, go global? – The Economist
- Maldives seeks to renegotiate with China over Belt and Road debt – FT
- UK fintech shuts US operation to save Chinese deal – FT
- Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy? – NY Times
- Chinese Trade Negotiators Propose Trump-Xi Meeting in China Next Month – WSJ
- China May Cut Rates Soon, Says Economist Who Called 2014 Move – Bloomberg
- China’s ‘pragmatist’ Liu He is hemmed in on both sides – FT
- China, U.S. Wrap Up 2 Days of Talks With Positive Signs – Caixin
- Xi’s China Is Steamrolling Its Own History – Foreign Policy
- China’s Growth Rate Is Closer To 2% Right Now – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Political donations plunge to $16.7m – The Guardian
- SAB Miller – $8.7B selling beer to Australians over 4 yrs – $0 tax – Michael West
- Foxtel paid 0.05% tax rate in the last 4 years – Michael West
- Australian independent media on the rise – Michael West
- Political donations data raises the question: ‘What is it that Government doesn’t want us to know?’ – ABC
- Australia’s extreme heat is sign of things to come, scientists warn – The Guardian
- Home Affairs says encryption-busting laws now in use – IT News
- My Health Record: clinics receiving up to $50,000 a year in incentives – The Guardian
- Debate on national energy policy is even worse than Rudd, Gillard years, says senior NSW Liberal – ABC
- Gambling lobby gave $500,000 to Liberals ahead of Tasmanian election – The Guardian
- Abbott, Liberal figures at event with Chinese Communist Party links – Canberra Times
- Morrison boasts of influx of donations to Liberal Party – Brisbane Times
- Scott Morrison and his inner circle fight for their political lives – Canberra Times
- Tony Abbott could lose his seat in conditions which are perfect for independents – The Guardian
- Michaelia Cash to give evidence on AWU raids – Canberra Times
- Coal power plants in Australia broke down once every three days in 2018 – Renew Economy
- Westpac economist says new home construction may already be keeping up with population growth – Interest.co.nz