Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites – Truth Dig
- BlackRock’s Head Sees Potential For Interest Rates to Go More Negative – Learn Bonds
- Global Stocks Inch Up On Trade Hopes – Stock Market News
- The Fed’s $400 Billion Plan to Bailout the Repo Market – Fortune
Americas:
- Trump’s new overtime rule blocks 2.8 million workers from receiving the overtime pay – VOX
- U.S. consumer confidence plunges in September – Reuters
- Consumer confidence is slipping in California, nationwide OC Register
- Companies Are Using a Depression-Era Law To Escape Trump’s Tariffs — And It’s Costing Them – Pro Publica
- GM strike in U.S. leads to 5,000 layoffs in Canada: Union – Bloomberg
- Study: 14.3M Illegal Aliens Living in U.S., Costing Americans $132B a Year – Breitbart
Europe:
- Indonesia protests over sex before marriage bill – BBC
- Germany proposes European aircraft carrier – UK Defence Journal
- It’s official: A Romanian will be the first EU Chief Prosecutor – Romania Insider
- Russia formally joins Paris climate pact – Euractiv
- Macron’s coalition of European militaries grows in force – Euractiv
- Russian doping scandal: Russia faces ban from all major sports events – Wada – BBC
- Child marriages in Germany present a challenge for authorities – DW
Asia:
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- Trump may get much of the world’s manufacturing out of China, but it won’t be coming back to the US – Salon
- China steals US designs for new weapons, and it’s getting away with ‘the greatest intellectual property theft in human history’ – Business Insider
- For Uighur refugees, freedom means losing family – Yahoo
- China’s Rivers Are the Major Source of Plastic Entering the Oceans – The Epoch Times
- ‘China’s Tesla’ NIO slashes thousands of jobs as losses mount – Nikkei
- China Warns U.N. to Ignore U.S. Condemnation of Muslim Concentration Camps – Breitbart
- China is killing religious and ethnic minorities for the purpose of harvesting human organs – Independent
Trans-Tasman:
- PayPal Australia under radar for Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financial Act 2006 ? – Finance Crypto Rules
- Australian government seen globally as climate ‘denialist’, UN summit observers say – The Guardian
- Morrison warns against ‘needless anxiety’ after Thunberg climate speech – The SMH
- Gas: how Australia privatised the profits and socialised the losses – Michael West
- NSW farm trespass bill criticised for turning into a crackdown on the right to protest – The Guardian
- Cannabis expected to be legalised in Australian Capital Territory for personal use – The Guardian
- Politicians who become lobbyists can be bad for Australians’ health – The Conversation
- Climate change could stretch our capabilities, Defence Force chief speech warns – ABC
- Australians spend $30 billion a year on out-of-pocket health costs – The SMH
- ‘It is likely an extended period of low interest rates will be required’: RBA hints at another cut – ABC
- Families flock to rental market as they’re priced out of home ownership – The SMH
- RBNZ leaves OCR unchanged at 1% – Interest.co.nz
- Census shows most of Auckland’s housing growth occurred in wealthier areas despite stronger population growth in poorer suburbs – Interest.co.nz
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