Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- We froze the salaries of 20 executives – and it improved the lives of 500 employees – The Guardian
- Dividends and Buybacks Now Larger than Total Reported Earnings for the Entire S&P 500 – The Sounding Line
- Panicking During Market Volatility? Keep Calm And Hedge – Be In Crypto
- Lyft, Lime, GrubHub: what it’s like to work for gig economy apps – VOX
- Boom in Dodgy Wall Street Deals Points to Market Trouble Ahead – Bloomberg
- Irrational Equanimity Has Taken Over the Markets – Bloomberg, Authers
- Hate Globalization? Then Embrace Stagnation – Bloomberg, Smith
- Bitcoin is up 125 Percent in 2019 – Medium
- The Global Economy Was Improving. Then the Fighting Resumed. – NY Times
Americas:
- $1 million isn’t enough to make you wealthy in America, survey finds – Bangor Daily
- Fewer millennials are making it into the middle class – CNN
- Trump administration showers Brazilian crooks with $62M bailout money meant for struggling U.S. farmers – My Daily News
- Walmart says it will raise prices because of tariffs – CNN
- Bernie Sanders and AOC’s plan to crack down on high-interest loans, explained – VOX
- Trump To Make US Immigration Merit-Based, English Speakers With Job Offers Have Better Chances – Yuv News
- These 16 money wasters are why so many Americans can’t save for retirement – MarketWatch
- Bank of Canada flags climate change as ‘vulnerability’ in annual report card – Global News
- Trump no longer cares if his China policies hurt American businesses – CNBC
- America’s educational system is an ‘aristocracy posing as a meritocracy’ – MarketWatch
- Half of Americans are just one paycheck away from financial disaster – MarketWatch
- Household debt hits $13.6 trillion as student loan and credit card delinquencies rise – Yahoo
Europe:
- EU fines major banks 1 billion euros over currency cartels – DW
- Macron swipes at US in push for fair tech industry – Reuters
- Austria approves headscarf ban in primary schools – The Guardian
- London police arrest and fine man for trying to cover his face from facial recognition camera – Boing Boing
- LGBT school lessons protests spread nationwide – BBC
- BBC defends decision to cover up anti-Semitism in Gaza documentary – Washington Examiner
- ‘We’d be happy to take their place’: Georgia bids to nab UK’s spot in EU – Euro News
Asia:
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- China cancels US pork import order – Reuters
- China has cut its holdings of US debt to the lowest level in two years – CNBC
- China Bond-Payment Deals Done in Secret Stoke Default Concerns – Bloomberg
- U.S. Places Huawei and 67 Affiliates Around World on Blacklist – Bloomberg
- China says any further action against companies like Huawei could escalate tensions – CNBC
- China Could Pay a High Price for Trump’s Tariffs – Bloomberg, El-Erian
- Show sincerity or cancel trade talks, Chinese state media tells US – SCMP
- Where has all the money gone? US-China trade war triggers capital flight from emerging Asian markets – SCMP
- US-China trade tensions trigger $4bn outflows from Chinese equities – CRE Herald
Trans-Tasman:
- Bob Hawke transformed Australia irrevocably and for the better – Guardian, Combet
- Bob Hawke spoke like us – until him the working class only saw themselves mocked on screen – Guardian
- Angus Taylor’s Oxford rowing mate’s company was a beneficiary of $80m water deal – Guardian
- Gas exports blamed for soaring electricity prices and job losses – ABC
- The real Bill Shorten: Pragmatist, dealer, prime minister? – ABC
- Bob Hawke modernised Labor, the unions, the economy and the nation – ABC, Verrender
- Since when have people working one hour per week been considered employed? – ABC
- A ‘national infrastructure disaster’: Coalition ‘in denial’ about state of NBN – New Daily
- Shorten’s united team will end years of instability – The SMH
- Reserve Bank censures ANZ, which is ‘disappointed’ error occurred – Interest.co.nz
- Macquarie highlights discrepancies in negative equity reporting across big 4 Aussie banks – Interest.co.nz