Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Now Earning 278 Times More Than Average Worker, New Study Shows CEO Pay Has Grown More Than 1,000% Since 1978 – Rapid Rationale
- Recession risks rising. But do central banks have any tools? – CS Monitor
- Energy Cost of Energy: Fossil fuels won’t maintain conventional economic prosperity – Surplus Energy
- Dow rises more than 200 points as Wall Street continues rebound from August sell-off – CNBC
- Traders flock to gold as fears of recession in the US loom large – Live Mint
- Gold Can Go Beyond 40 Thousand – Yuv News
Americas:
- Trump is convinced there is a conspiracy to distort economic data – Business Insider
- Houses are 73 Percent More Expensive Today than in 1973 – AM Greatness
- America’s Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person’s Servant – The Atlantic
- The CEOs of nearly 200 companies just said shareholder value is no longer their main objective – CNBC
- Economic angst rises at bad time for Trump – The Hill
- ‘Privately’ Trump Is ‘Quite Alarmed and Rattled’ With the Economy – Bipartisan Press
- 74% of Economists in Survey See US Recession by End of 2021 – Florida Daily
- Third Of Surveyed Economists Expect U.S. Will Hit A Recession In 2021 – Huff Post
Europe:
- Slowing inflation in the Eurozone increases the pressure on the ECB for new stimulus – Economo
- Finnish social minister: Europe needs ‘a paradigm shift’ towards the economy of well-being – Euractiv
- The UK has lost its World Health Organization ‘measles-free’ status – New Scientist
- UK: Government furious at leak of paper predicting shortages after no-deal Brexit – The Guardian
- ‘Greenland belongs to Greenland’: Denmark says selling world’s largest island to US is absurd – CNBC
- Iceland holds ceremony for first glacier lost to climate change – DW
- Merkel: ‘Truly united Europe’ includes Western Balkans – Politico
Asia:
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- Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? – Cassandra Capital
- Trump’s Yield Curve Panic Prompts Trade-War Overture to Xi – Bloomberg
- China’s Interbank SHIBOR Rates Climb on PBOC’s Cash Withdrawal – Yicai Global
- Chinese Stocks Eke Out Gains to Close Higher on Interest Rate, Shenzhen Stimulus Plans – Yicai Global
- Donald Trump Said His Administration Was “Doing Very Well With China” – Yuv News
Trans-Tasman:
- Manus Island asylum seekers offered voluntary relocation to Port Moresby – ABC
- ‘Humiliating’: Chinese nationalist trolls target critics in Australia – The SMH
- Queensland police to get new powers to search climate change protesters – The Guardian
- Government to crack down on ‘stupid’ protester tactics – Brisbane Times
- ‘Crisis point’: Apartment building industry needs urgent reform – New Daily
- Inheritances as we know them are broken. This is how we fix them – ABC
- Warming climate to stir up more damaging waves as ‘rare event’ nears: research – The Age
- ‘Begging for chairs’: Grant competition reveals schools’ funding struggle – The SMH
- ‘Really upset’: welfare changes forced woman to volunteer as husband was dying – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison tells public servants: keep in mind the ‘bacon and eggs’ principle – The Conversation
- If not recession for Australia, certainly a turn for the worse – The Guardian
- Coalition MP breaks ranks to push for a stronger federal anti-corruption body – The Guardian
- Families feel squeeze as healthcare, education costs outpace inflation – The SMH