Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Stocks Show It Hasn’t Paid to Be Long on Donald Trump – Bloomberg
- Restraining the power of the rich with a 10 percent surtax on top 0.1 percent incomes – EPI
- A Subtle Message from Powell to Markets – More Than News
- Dow futures fall 150 points after Trump tweets ‘no need to rush’ on China trade deal – CNBC
- The ‘Trump put’ saves stocks as investors bet the president won’t let the market collapse – CNBC
- What history teaches us about who wins in trade wars – MarketWatch
- Congratulations to Uber, the Worst Performing IPO in U.S. Stock Market History – Gizmodo
Americas:
- Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve – NPR
- Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Propose 15% Cap on Credit Card Interest – Bloomberg
- Trump’s Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans – NY Times
- Who Pays Trump’s China Tariffs? U.S. Businesses and Consumers – Bloomberg
- Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay – NY Times
- California’s Rent Control Advocates Are About To Get What They Want – Reason
- Fed’s Brainard: Middle-class wealth still less than before Great Recession – Reuters
- They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States. – NY Times
- ‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality – CityLab
- More than half of voters like Warren’s plan to cancel student debt, survey finds – CNBC
- Smartphone shipments hit a five-year low in North America – TechCrunch
Europe:
- Brexit: France warns UK it will not tolerate another extension of Brexit deadline – Independent
- US giant Coca-Cola ‘paid €8m to influence French health researchers’ – The Local
- The Swedish State refuses to acknowledge that IS committed genocide – VS
- French village is offering a prize of €2,000 to anyone that can decipher a mysterious 230-year-old inscription on a rock. – BBC
- EU Quietly Ramps Up Preparations To Re-introduce Blanket Data Retention After Top Court Threw It Out In 2014 – Tech Dirt
- Emissions of the EU fell by 2,5% from 2017 to 2018 – Europa
- And the least feminist nation in the world is… Denmark? – The Guardian
- Today, the EU has used up nature’s budget for the year – Euractiv
Asia:
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- Trump says ‘no need to rush’ with China trade deal in tweet – CNBC
- U.S. Gives China a Month for Trade Deal or tariffs on all Chinese export – Bloomberg
- Vietnam abandoned Huawei’s 5G. They developed and implemented 5G on their own – Foreign Policy
- ‘We will turn the best of them into Hans, while repressing and destroying the bad.’ – CNN
- Jack Ma tells his married employees to have good sex 6 times a day, 6 times a week – Shanghaist
- China urges U.S. to respect market economy after China Mobile denied entry – Reuters
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Ninety percent of Chinese youth endorse Marxism: poll – Global Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s Murdoch moment: has News Corp finally gone too far? – The Guardian
- Jessica applies for 50 jobs a month and battles to survive on Newstart, with nothing left after bills and rent – News.com.au
- Reserve Bank’s latest outlook challenges ‘strong economy’ rhetoric – ABC
- Bill Shorten finds his feet in tectonic shift in federal election campaign – ABC
- Europe woos Australia as Brexit divorce looms – Canberra Times
- Morrison says he’s in command of the show, but there’s a far bigger force at play – The Guardian
- Dubious environmental group Gatekeepers of Our Reef ‘infiltrates’ Stop Adani movement – ABC
- Few plans and less workers: How the system is failing disabled people living in the bush – ABC
- Australian gun clubs upgrades have cost taxpayers $77m – SBS
- Federal election 2019: Are major parties ignoring welfare issues that keep people in poverty? – ABC
- Populism and the Australian election: what could fringe voters deliver to our parliament? – The Guardian
- Ending the Privatisation Madness: Time to stop the sell-offs and outsourcing – Search
- Westpac economists pick no further OCR cuts, say house prices could rise 7% next year – Interest.co.nz
- Has the RBNZ re-lit the house market fuse? – Interest.co.nz
