Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Modern Monetary Theory: A Fairy Tale for Social Engineers – FCPP
- Bonds Meet the Four Criteria for Defining a Bubble – Bloomberg
- AI-Driven Stock Predictions: To Democratize AI For All – Market Watch
- Asia shares jolted by Hong Kong unrest, Argentine peso crash – Reuters
Americas:
- Young Americans Feel Degrees Not Important In Getting Jobs – RTT News
- Trump’s trade war could spark a recession, Goldman Sachs warns – NBC News
- Lowe’s spent billions on share buybacks, zero on severance for laid-off workers – CBS News
- Trump/Republican tax cuts for Corporations and the Wealthy cause the U.S. budget deficit to balloon 27% in one year – CNBC
- Past-due student loans, credit card debt could weigh on U.S. growth – Reuters
- American taxpayers paid over $90 billion more under Trump tax law – Yahoo
- How Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America – The Atlantic
- Trump’s Trade Policy: Bluster and Cave – Prospect
Europe:
- Pound will continue to fall and could reach parity with dollar after no-deal Brexit – Mazech
- Danish bank launches world’s first negative interest rate mortgage – The Guardian
- Berlin moves to greatly reduce ‘solidarity tax’ for eastern Germany – Euro News
- Russian village near site of nuclear accident explosion told to evacuate after radiation spike – Independent
- Nationalism in England is not just a rightwing nostalgia trip – The Guardian
Asia:
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- In spite of holding $3 Trillion in US dollars, China is worried about a shortage of dollars to pay off its debts – SCMP
- Trump just blinked, giving China a possible edge in trade war, Jim Chanos and others say – CNBC
- US delaying China tariffs for some items including cellphones, removing other products from list – CNBC
- US Removes Some Items From China Tariff List – Stock Market News
- China Destroys Gambian Marine Ecosystem – Gambian News Today
- China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- There is growing empathy for those on Newstart – The Guardian
- The no-growth future: has Australia’s economy finally run out of luck? – The Guardian
- NBN customers face higher prices or poorer internet connection, audit warns – The SMH
- Australian politicians caught up in Chinese political influence network – ABC
- Mate Versus Mate: inside ScoMo’s billion-dollar visa privatisation – Michael West
- Glencore fails to prevent tax office using Panama Papers documents – The Guardian
- Australian Liberal MP Gladys Liu’s links to secretive United Front Chinese influence arm – ABC
- Australia becoming ‘police state’ amid efforts to silence whistleblowers – 9News
- Asio warns ‘hostile actors’ could exploit journalist public interest exemptions – The Guardian
- Half of all new cars sold in Australia by 2035 will be electric, forecast predicts – The Guardian
- The Morrison government will launch a powerful inquiry into Australia’s migration program – The Age
- China’s Antarctic bases within Australia’s claim are going unchecked – ABC
- Australia must fix school inequity to create a top education system – ABC
- Westpac economists stick with forecast of 7% house price growth next year – Interest.co.nz