Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Research Study on Ongoing Crime Spree by Wall Street Mega Banks Gets News Blackout: Here’s Why – Blacklist News
- Risk of earnings recession rises, as S&P 500 profits to fall for first time in 3 years – MarketWatch
- The Leader of the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Says the Economic System That Made Him a Billionaire Is a Threat – FEE
- 9 trillion in corporate junk debt – Zero Hedge
- Bank of Canada: Labor Mobility in a Monetary Union – Bank of Canada
- How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades – Ineteconomics
Americas:
- The Way Ahead – Barack Obama – The Economist
- Rents in Los Angeles and Orange counties up 5.6%! That’s the biggest hikes since 2007! – OC Register
- The Middle Class is Shrinking – Medium
- Upper-middle class families are taking out more loans – Axios
- At our current pace it’ll take 80 years to repair all the structurally deficient bridges in the US, a report finds – CNN
- San Francisco passes New York to become world’s costliest place to build – SF Chronicle
- Alan Greenspan says economy will start to fade ‘very dramatically’ because of entitlement burden – CNBC
- Apartment rents climbing, and poised to go higher – AP News
- 60 Top Corporations Paid $0 Federal Taxes Under Trump Tax Law – HuffPost
- Trump vowed to eliminate the debt in 8 years. He’s on track to leave it at least 50 percent higher. – Washington Post
Europe:
- EU Preparing to Slap US With Tariffs on Goods Worth Billions of Dollars – Sputnik News
- France calls on northern Europe to boost spending – FT
- Germany’s Postwar Prosperity Is on the Verge of Reversal – Bloomberg
- Spain’s ‘Watergate’ erupts ahead of election – Irish Times
- UK implements new law with prison sentences for viewing terrorist propaganda and entering “designated areas” – Independent
- French Yellow Vests keep the pressure on government with ‘Act XXII’ protests – Yahoo
Asia:
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- At ‘China’s Manhattan,’ construction slows due to debt and diminished demand – Share your aim
- ‘I was always in fear – I thought they would kill me’: Muslim women describe torture at hands of Chinese authorities in Xinjiang – Telegraph
- Beijing tried to block Philippine military facilities on disputed island ‘over fears US could use them’ – Yahoo
- China goes unconventional in escalating South China Sea face-off – Reuters
- China’s JD.com boss criticizes ‘slackers’ as company makes cuts – Reuters
- China denounces protectionism in swipe at U.S. trade policy – Reuters
- Chinese scientists added human brain genes to monkeys: Some are calling the Chinese experiment “an ethical nightmare.” – VOX
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian surfers win David v Goliath battle against Chinese company in Fiji – The Age
- In Australia, Muslims Call for Pressure on China Over Missing Relatives – NY Times
- Coalition stopped welfare payments to 55,000 homeless or at-risk jobseekers in six months – The Guardian
- Australian PM and Labor Party leader both reject any defence of Julian Assange – WSWS
- RBA baffled by the ‘tension’ between a weak economy and strong employment – ABC
- Greens pledge more than $330m for the ABC – SBS
- Recycling industry demands Federal action as mountains of rubbish builds up – ABC
- Gun lobby scales back campaigning in wake of Christchurch massacre – The Age
- Aged care home carried on ‘business as usual’ and ignored sexual assault of resident, family says – ABC
- Good election news: No more fake government infrastructure ads – New Daily
- Unemployment statistics: Australia’s unemployment rate is much too high – News.com.au