Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978 Typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time – EPI
- YIELD CURVE INVERTS: Recession indicator flashes red for first time since 2007 – Yahoo
- A Global ‘Arms Race’ Is Emerging Among Corporate and State-Backed Stablecoins – Be In Crypto
- The Value of Money – Medium
- Asia shares jolted by Hong Kong unrest, Argentine peso crash – Reuters
Americas:
- Trump still hasn’t learned that it’s nearly impossible to win a trade war – Market Watch
- ‘The Wild West’: These colleges are putting students into the most debt – Yahoo
- U.S. Mortgage Debt Hits Record – Stock Market News
- America is facing a pension crisis – CNN
- U.S. Economy Faces ‘Strongest Recession Signal Yet’ – Truth Dig
- Young Americans Feel Degrees Not Important In Getting Jobs – RTT News
- Past-due student loans, credit card debt could weigh on U.S. growth – Reuters
- Fears of Argentina Default Loom Large as Traders Dump Everything – Bloomberg
- Trump/Republican tax cuts for Corporations and the Wealthy cause the U.S. budget deficit to balloon 27% in one year – CNBC
- Trump plugs Shell plant that will tap fracking gas to make plastics despite pollution concerns – Japan Times
- American taxpayers paid over $90 billion more under Trump tax law – Yahoo
Europe:
- German economy contracts as export engine stutters – Reuters
- 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
- EU to Australia: Stop calling your cheese Feta or Gruyere – Euro News
- No chance of US-UK deal if Northern Ireland peace at risk – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China is worried about a shortage of dollars to pay off its debts – SCMP
- US Is Delaying Imposing Tariffs On Some Imports From China – Yuv News
- China Prepares Its “Nuclear Option” In Trade War – Oil Price
- Huawei to slash 1,000 jobs in the US that will be moved to Italy, alongside a €2.7bn investment – Mobile World Live
- Order Returns to Hong Kong Airport, Protesters Apologize – VOA News
- Hong Kong Protests: Video shows paramilitary forces assembling in Shenzhen – The Week
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia removes coal and climate ‘crisis’ references from Pacific islands declaration – The Guardian
- Jacinda Ardern says Australia has to answer to Pacific on climate change – The Guardian
- New tax data reveals Australians hold $100bn in offshore accounts – The Guardian
- Inside China’s vast influence network – how it works, and its reach in Australia – The Conversation
- Mascot Towers owners say $10 million repairs bill a ‘dangerous precedent’ – The SMH
- The Battle for Hong Kong Is Being Fought in Sydney and Vancouver – NY Times
- How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it – SBS News
- Documents reveal $500m Broken Hill pipeline built for benefit of irrigators – The Guardian
- ASIO deputy says foreign spies are posing as journalists – New Daily
- Homelessness hits growing number of West Australians over the age of 65 – ABC
- Australia’s tax office can use global data leaks to pursue multinationals, High Court rules – The Conversation
- Strong rise in the number of new dwellings being completed in Auckland – Interest.co.nz