Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Why Does Everyone Hate MMT – GMO
- Yellen Says She’s ‘Not a Fan of MMT’ as List of Detractors Grows – Bloomberg
- Apple’s Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday – Bloomberg
- Thinning Liquidity in Key Futures Market Worries Traders – WSJ
- Low Interest Rates Might Be What’s Hurting Growth – Bloomberg
- Corporate Taxation in the Global Economy – PIIE
- Hedge Fund Launches Hit 18-Year Low – Institutional Investor
Americas:
- Puerto Rico faces food stamps crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island – Washington Post
- Congestion Pricing in Manhattan, First Such Plan in U.S., Close to Approval – NY Times
- Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point? – Mercury News
- Democrats Say It’s Safe to Spend Big Again. They’re Wrong. – Bloomberg
- US corporate debt is high but not yet dangerous – FT
- California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes – WSJ
Europe:
- German billionaire family that owns Einstein Bros. Bagels admits Nazi past – Washington Post
- German family to give $11M after hearing extent of Nazi past – AP
- Corbyn and May both hit new favourability lows – YouGov
- Too poor to play: children in social housing blocked from communal playground – The Guardian
- Theresa May drops plans to call for ‘indicative’ Brexit votes – FT
- Brexit: May tells MPs she does not have enough support to win third meaningful vote – The Guardian
- Not enough votes for Brexit deal yet – May – BBC
- Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops: report – Reuters
- Sweden Seen Likely to Force Banks to Handle Cash Transactions – Bloomberg
- Britain’s financial sector has gloomiest outlook since 2008 crisis:… – Reuters
Asia:
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- Chinese academic fired after public criticism of party leadership – FT
- China Has a Lot of Financial Opening Up to Do, Says Central Bank – Bloomberg
- China’s leaders should study James Bond films – The Economist
- Macron hails ‘end of Europe naïveté’ towards China – FT
- Japan braces for financial disruption when Akihito abdicates – FT
- China’s bids to improve food safety and welfare for its people are just empty words – SCMP
- Chinese Education Startup Puts Western Teachers on Notice – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- One Nation wanted millions from the NRA while planning to soften Australia’s gun laws – ABC
- Senior Liberals are disowning the party’s hard-right vice president – The SMH
- Two privately operated prisons in Queensland will be transferred into state hands – ABC
- Mining giant Adani fined for polluting ‘beautiful’ Queensland wetlands during monster storms – SBS
- Pokies lobby donated $1m to Victorian Labor in bid to keep Greens out of power – The Age
- ‘Legalising’ cannabis in Canberra would put more smokers behind bars, ACT police warn – ABC
- Scott Morrison’s $9 billion mass detention plan – The Age
- IT Companies Unprepared to Respond to Data Requests Under New Encryption Laws – Media Net
- ‘He was in it right up to his neck’: How Scott Morrison deposed a prime minister – The Age
- Business leader and prominent Liberal Party supporter Tony Shepherd is warning the Federal Government not to go through with handing out tax cuts to households. – ABC
- Shorten to announce Labor’s ‘living wage’ plan but without an amount or timing – The Conversation