Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- JP Morgan has created an index to track the effect of Trump’s tweets on financial markets: ‘Volfefe index’ – CNBC
- The trade war hasn’t hit its peak yet. The US and China will both pay a heavy price – CNN
- Bitcoin Co. exchange unexpectedly shuts down – Forex Review
- The world’s 10 most and least liveable cities for 2019 – CRE Herald
- Uber and Lyft both hit all-time lows and continue to struggle since their IPOs – CNN
- Why silver may have more room to run – MarketWatch
Americas:
- The Future of U.S. Jobs Looks Bleak. Unions Are the Answer. – In These Times
- Microsoft: Trump’s unfair treatment of Huawei is ‘un-American’ – Copy Left
- Fannie, Freddie and the government: it’s complicated – Reuters
- The U.S. Economy Created 130,000 Jobs in August, Wage Growth Accelerated, Unemployment 3.7% – Breitbart
- Record 157 million employed – CNS News
- China keeps booting U.S. journalists. We keep admitting theirs – Washington Post
Europe:
- Labour threatens to ban bankers’ bonuses – FT
- France will veto another Brexit delay unless UK ends political chaos – Independent
- Drought Has Revealed Spain’s Long-Submerged ‘Stonehenge’ – Atlas Obscura
- How Ireland lost patience with Brexiting Brits – Politico
- Descendants of Nazi-era Jews fight for German citizenship – DW
Asia:
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- A blow to Washington… China to invest $280 billion in Iranian sectors targeted by sanctions – Middle East Monitor
- DCEP: The Big Brother of China’s Digital Economy – Be In Crypto
- Thailand dangles 50% tax cut for manufacturers fleeing China – Nikkei
- The Huawei saga took a strange turn – Medium
- A group of Chinese scholars has concluded that English is actually a Chinese dialect – Shanghaist
- U.S. will aim to persuade others to ‘call out’ China over Uighurs at U.N – Reuters
- China Says Growth Is Fine. Private Data Shows Sharper Slowdown – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens push for anti-corruption body to stamp out political scandals – SBS
- Alex Braes went to the emergency department four times before he died after an infected toenail – ABC
- Australia cleared 7.7m hectares of threatened species habitat since introduction of environment act – The Guardian
- Australia’s weak economy has been ‘deliberately engineered’ – Yahoo
- Newstart recipients six times more likely to suffer poor health, researchers find – The Guardian
- Soaring cost of housing for poorest Australians is driving inequality: Grattan Institute – The SMH
- Nearly half of Australia’s native plants are under threat from climate change – SBS
- Why Sydney’s urban sprawl is harmful to your health – The SMH
- New WA mining boom brings automation to the fore, but the unions aren’t happy – ABC
- Rudd’s rental affordability scheme was a $1 billion gift to developers; Abbott was right to axe it – The Conversation
- Corporate profits and government spending boom while wages and economy languish – Michael West
- Retirement can be boring but working keeps you stimulated, say older workers – ABC
- NZ off the pace as Australia joins international crackdown on binary options & CFDs – Interest.co.nz