Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The IMF identifies the $5,200,000,000,000 that we spend every year on fossil fuel subsidies – Citizens Climate Lobby
- World’s coal miners may be digging themselves into another glut – Mining
- US stocks recover amid trade uncertainty – Channel News Asia
- Central Banking is Socialism for the Rich – Fiatisan
- Oil prices rise over 1% on drone attack on Saudi Aramco facilities – Reuters
- Global stocks selloff after China retaliates in Trade War. – Infadium
- Kyle Bass Exits Yuan Short Bet Just as Trade War Really Heats Up – Bloomberg
Americas:
- CDC: 1.1 million more Americans lost health insurance coverage in 2018 – USA Today
- The gini coefficient (the basic measure of inequality) for incomes is now at its highest ever in the US – Next Recession
- Millennials make up 35% of US pet owners and are spending more on pet food than any other generation – Business Insider
- The president’s decision to slap tariffs on goods from .. around the world and drag the U.S. into a trade war with China hasn’t gone super – Vanity Fair
- Americans Are Seeing Highest Minimum Wage in History (Without Federal Help) – NY Times
- 62% of millennials say they’re living paycheck to paycheck – CNBC
- The media is lying to you about Trump’s China tariffs – Market Watch
- Trump’s Trade War With China Could Cost the Average Family Up to $2,300 a Year – Time
- The country’s outstanding student loan balance is projected to swell to $2 trillion by 2022 – CNBC
- Fed’s Neel Kashkari says US is ‘in a very strong position’ in escalating trade war with China – CNBC
- Listings jump 22% as Southern California homeowners rush to sell – OC Register
Europe:
- Millennials’ pay still stunted by the 2008 financial crash – The Guardian
- Honda confirms UK car factory closure in 2021 – DW
- ‘Catastrophe’ as France’s bird population collapses due to pesticides – The Guardian
- Hands off our guns, Swiss enthusiasts tell EU ahead of vote – Reuters
- All companies must record staff working hours, EU court rules – Politico
- Netherlands ready to start taxing air travel – Euractiv
Asia:
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- Foreigners Dump Record Chinese Stocks on Trade War Woes – Bloomberg
- The Pakistani brides being trafficked to China – BBC
- China keeps eye on PH-US coast guard drills in South China Sea – Global Nation
- U.S. lawmakers want to tighten visas for Chinese students, researchers – Reuters
- Rich countries are increasingly looking to China’s Belt and Road infrastructure network as a potential opportunity – Bloomberg
- In China, Some Fear the End of ‘Chimerica’ – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Private school funding growth outstrips public schools’ despite Gonski – The SMH
- Living on Newstart: ‘I don’t eat every day. That saves some money I guess’ – The Guardian
- SA Transport Minister refuses to rule out privatising trains and trams – ABC
- Coalition implodes as Nationals launch their own ‘below the line’ campaign against Jim Molan – The SMH
- The Liberal party’s rank opportunism spells danger for Australian energy policy – The Guardian
- ‘Worse than expected’: WaterNSW calls for mining curbs in Sydney’s catchment – The SMH
- Welfare groups slam negative gearing ‘scare campaign’ – New Daily
- Peak pork: The marginal seat where election promises add to $26,500 per voter – The Age
- First-home buyers using government deposit scheme to pay thousands in extra interest – The SMH