Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Merrill Lynch Caught Criminally Manipulating Precious Metals Market “Thousands Of Times” Over 6 Years – Zero Hedge
- Weakening Dollar and Iran Sanctions Could Push Bitcoin and Gold to New Highs – Be In Crypto
- The Bitcoin bubble is on – Forbes
- Giant Investors Are Coming After One of Wall Street’s Cash Cows – WSJ
- The golden asteroid that could make everyone on Earth a billionaire – RT
Americas:
- US Poverty Statistics Ignore Millions of Struggling Americans – Ponderwall
- JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon: Student lending in the U.S. is a ‘disgrace’ and it’s ‘hurting America’ – Yahoo
- U.S. Luxury Home Sales Experience Steepest Decline Since 2010 – Mansion Global
- I’m in the 1 Percent. Please, Raise My Taxes. – NY Times
- The New Labor Movement: Pushing Employers to Be Socially Active – WSJ
- Private companies are making billions from detaining immigrants—$775 per child, per day – Daily Kos
- Southern California homebuyers balk as sales drop for 10th straight month – OC Register
Europe:
- UK trade minister Fox dismisses idea of ‘stand still’ tariff-free EU commerce – The Economy Club
- Icelanders tire of disrespectful Instagram influencers – BBC
- Ireland to ban fur farming to spare thousands of animals from ‘lives of misery’ – Independent
- EU should ban AI-powered citizen scoring and mass surveillance, say experts – The Verge
- Kraków joins EU-wide call to fight Airbnb “explosive growth” – Kafkadesk
- Paris Plans ‘Urban Forests’ at Famous Landmarks – City Lab
Asia:
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- Trade war: US and China agree tentative truce before G20 summit – SCMP
- Huawei employees collaborated with Chinese military on research projects – Channel News Asia
- Trump: My Plan B With China on Trade is to Reduce Business With China – Sputnik News
- China considers blacklisting FedEx after Huawei delivery errors – Straits Times
- U.S. wants ‘reasonable’ trade deal with China – U.S. Commerce Secretary – Reuters
- China’s economy is not out of the woods even if there is a trade deal – Contrarian
- Don’t Pick a Fight With the People’s Bank of China – WSJ
- China finds armyworm in 19 provinces, situation remains severe – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Christopher Pyne called out for taking defence job within 18 months of leaving Parliament – ABC
- Barnaby Joyce expanded farm finance scheme against advice of Treasury – The Guardian
- Voters back health and education over high-income tax cuts, poll shows – The Guardian
- PM urged to investigate claims department broke law over sensitive documents – The Guardian
- Sydney declares a climate emergency – what does that mean in practice? – The Conversation
- Australian student detained in North Korea – 9News
- Australia’s economy is in the doldrums and infrastructure is failing to prop it up – The Guardian
- ‘Dangerous and undemocratic’: Reworked espionage laws criminalise dissent – The SMH
- Truck driver shortage heading down the road to an economic roadblock – ABC
- Mascot Towers: Buildings around troubled site are cracking, leaking and degrading – News.com.au
- Every NSW government MP pocketing above base salary – The SMH
- RBNZ Deputy Governor warns of ‘more intensive’ & ‘more intrusive’ regulation – Interest.co.nz
- IMF and OECD give bank capital and deposit protection proposals the thumbs up – Interest.co.nz
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