Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Oil Plunges After Saudi Arabia Announces Yemen Ceasefire – Oil Price
- Stablecoin as Hayek’s Private Money – Medium
- ATM ‘deserts’ – On the path towards a cashless society – Sum-up
- Repo-Market Cure May Take $500 Billion of Fed Treasuries Buying – Yahoo
- Global Fintech Market To Grow 142% To $310 Billion By 2022 – Learn Bonds
Americas:
- Americans Are Losing Confidence in the Trump Economy – Vanity Fair
- US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded – Insider
- Consumer Sentiment Rebounded in September – Breitbart
- America is Approaching its Tipping Point – Medium
- How Trump’s economy went from rocket ship to lead balloon – Market Watch
- Paying off student debt is the biggest life milestone for millennials – Business Insider
- U.S. Personal Income Climbs In Line With Estimates In August – RTT News
- Impeaching Trump Is Good for the Economy – NY Times
- Repo Meltdown Shows Budget Deficit Has Limits – Bloomberg
Europe:
- German Industrial Recession Drags Economy Deeper Into Slump – Bloomberg
- The University of Edinburgh has been slated for hosting an event where white people will be banned from asking questions – Scotsmans
- EU, Japan sign agreement to bypass China’s ‘new Silk Road’ – Japan Today
- UK’s new flagship polar research vessel officially named Sir David Attenborough – The Barents Observer
- German class action lawsuit over VW emissions cheating set to begin – DW
- ‘Alarming’ extinction threat to Europe’s trees – BBC
- Jennifer Arcuri’s mystery £700,000 loan adds to pressure on Johnson – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China leveraging Trump impeachment ‘desperation’ in trade talks – Yahoo
- White House deliberates block on all US investments in China – CNBC
- China Rejects as ‘Unfair’ Suggestions It’s a Developed Economy – Bloomberg
- Trade war hasn’t stopped Wall Street’s $12b China rush – Traits Times
- China communicates with US over trade talks, willing to buy more from US – The Star
- The explosive growth of Chinese cities – Statista
Trans-Tasman:
- Plan for massive facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns – The Guardian
- Drought-hit Australian towns prepare for ‘unimaginable’ water crisis – Yahoo
- RSPCA accuses government of backflip on welfare for live exports from Australia – The Guardian
- A US federal reserve bank says Australia has had three recessions – News.com.au
- How did CEO pay get to 500 times the wages of ordinary workers? – ABC
- Morrison leaning into the US might have a strange logic – but it’s risky – The Guardian
- Frydenberg announces first major review of Australia’s retirement income system in 30 years – ABC
- ‘It’s brutal’: Marcia Langton says cashless welfare cards are a failure – SBS
- House ownership is out of reach for ‘disenfranchised’ millennials, says CoreLogic property analysts – ABC
- WA announces direct flights to China as PM Scott Morrison aligns Australia to Donald Trump’s America – ABC
- Ongoing surge in new home completions in Auckland – Interest.co.nz
- The Opportunities Party’s Geoff Simmons on population, productivity, planting trees, parking & micro-mobility and prohibition – Interest.co.nz