Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- SEC accused Mediatrix Capital of $125 mln Ponzi scheme – Forex Brokerz
- “World economy on track for its worst year since 2009” — OECD – Independent
- It’s only a matter of time before blockchain is implemented in loyalty program – Medium
- Yields fall as China cancels US farm visits – Leader Post
- Why the Fed intervened in short-term money markets – The Economist
- Fed Adds $75 Billion to Financial System on Friday in Fourth Repo Transaction This Week – WSJ
- Rent Control: A History of Failure – Mises
Americas:
- Financial Worries Keep Most Americans Up at Night – One nation, haunted by financial insomnia. – Bloomberg
- Trump Has Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama – Forbes
- Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging – KHN
- JC Penney prepping for debt talks ahead of the holiday season – Bloomberg
- Trump’s farmer bailout is already more than twice as expensive as Obama’s automaker bailout – The Week
- Breaking up big tech companies like Amazon and Google is supported by two thirds of Americans, poll shows – VOX
- Economic Confidence Drops to Lowest Level Since Shutdown – Gallup
Europe:
- French police tussle with ‘yellow vests’ as Paris set for protest day – Trust
- Deutsche Bank in Fresh Trouble With EU Regulators – BeInCrypto
- Eurozone Consumer Confidence At 4-month High – RTT News
- French court rules Steam users have right to resell their games – EuroGamer
- ‘The men who plundered Europe’: bankers on trial for siphoning €60bn – The Guardian
- Jeremy Corbyn ‘most unpopular opposition leader of past 45 years’, says poll – Politics Home
Asia:
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- Corporate Tax Cut: Can “Trickle Down Economics” counter India’s economic slowdown ? – YouTube
- Will India’s big-bang tax reform work? The Trump parallel and expert takes – Yuv News
- China Trade Negotiators Cut U.S. Trip Short After Trump Says He Doesn’t Need A Deal Now – Huff Post
- The U.S.-China trade war has hardened into a political and ideological battle that runs far deeper than tariffs – CNBC
- What India’s finance minister needs to do next to boost the economy – YuvNews
- The China trade talks are ‘kind of frozen,’ APCO Worldwide chair says – YouTube
Trans-Tasman:
- Why Australians shouldn’t give a damn that the budget is in balance – The Guardian
- Labor was going to hit the ground running — it hit a brick wall instead – ABC
- ‘A horrible weight on my shoulders’: the fury fuelling the robodebt class action – The Guardian
- Australians can’t agree on how to save the Great Barrier Reef and it’s getting ugly – Vice
- ‘Get rid of the prisoners by shooting them’: Australian commandos tell of war crimes – Brisbane Times
- Labor calls for Facebook investigation after ‘death tax’ election campaign – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison scrambles to contain political mushroom cloud after Trump raises nuclear option with Iran – The Guardian
- Mates Deal: ASIC tweaks the law to bury #Watergate data – Michael West
- We don’t need another family law review — we need to act on what we already know – ABC
- The murky ethics of political donations – The Saturday Paper
- Vital Signs: NBN’s new price plans are too little, too late – The Conservation
- There is no alternative to multilateralism – Interest.co.nz
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