Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Key to a Sustainable Economy Is 5,000 Years Old – Truth Dig
- Bitcoin Co. exchange unexpectedly shuts down – Forex Review
- Apple boss developing a cryptocurrency to rival Facebook’s Libra – Article Ark
- Silicon Valley’s final frontier for mobile payments – MarketWatch
- What is a Black Swan event? – Medium
- How to Popularize a Stablecoin: an Accept-side Strategy – Medium
- Uber and Lyft both hit all-time lows and continue to struggle since their IPOs – CNN
- Precious Metals Enjoy Resurgence in Negative-Yield World – Stock Market News
- Why silver may have more room to run – MarketWatch
- Copyright companies demonizing big tech industry – Tech Dirt
Americas:
- Americans’ Views Of The Economy Are Partisan, But They’re Not Immune To Bad News – FiveThirtyEight
- Trump may have committed tax fraud by fabricating a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million – Business Insider
- Fannie, Freddie and the government: it’s complicated – Reuters
- Trump Administration Proposes To Privatize Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac – RT News
- Farm loan delinquencies surge in U.S. election battleground Wisconsin – Reuters
- Montreal wants to ban use of Bayer-Monsanto’s herbicide glyphosate, calling it a public health issue – CBC
- Sanders rolls out ‘Bezos Act’ that would tax companies for welfare their employees receive – MarketWatch
- August job gains come in at 130,000, below expectations – Axios
- 2019 Trucking Company Closures So Far Have Doubled All of 2018 – TT News
- Chicago’s deficit heralds US pensions crisis – FT
Europe:
- Labour threatens to ban bankers’ bonuses – FT
- Climate Science Deniers Planning European Misinformation Campaign – Desmog
- The EU plans to spend €100 billion on research and expects to add €850 to the European GDP for every €100 invested – Ponderwall
- Tories extend lead over Labour to 10% despite chaotic week – The Guardian
- Amber Rudd resigns as Boris Johnson’s government plunged into further chaos – Independent
- Angry Migrants Blockade Main Greek Highway in protest of living conditions in Malakasa camp – Greek Reporter
- Denmark running out of drinking water, $32-million pipeline to be built from neighbouring Albany – ABC
Asia:
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- Thailand dangles 50% tax cut for manufacturers fleeing China – Nikkei
- The Huawei saga took a strange turn – Medium
- India Says Suspected Militants Trying to Infiltrate Kashmir – VOA News
- Cambodia Launches Campaign to End Child Labor in Brick Industry – VOA News
- India Goes from Taking to Giving Loans to Russia – Times of India
- Hong Kong: Angela Merkel says China must ‘guarantee’ rights and freedoms – The Guardian
- Xinjiang: The story China wants the world to forget – Aljazeera
- China’s New “Xi Jinping Constitution”: The Road to Totalitarianism – Nippon
- Canada takes first formal step to challenge China’s canola ban at WTO – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Sydney’s lockout laws scrapped across CBD but Kings Cross still under curfew – ABC
- Has Scott Morrison’s government failed to plan – or is it actually planning to fail? – The Guardian
- More than 100 remote community school jobs at risk as Federal Government cuts key funding – ABC
- ‘A whopping disappointment’: How the Coalition has wasted six years in power – The SMH
- Vaping debate rages in Australia as critics accuse government of smokescreen – The Guardian
- Top 40 Tax Dodgers 2019 – Michael West
- The new normal: Electric vehicle sales double in Australia, petrol car sales slump – The Driven
- Democracy overboard: Rupert Murdoch’s long war on Australian politics – The Guardian
- Penalty rates were cut to make way for new jobs. Did it work? – ABC
- Greens propose green stimulus package as building approvals collapse – The Age
- Home affairs data ‘gives lie’ to Coalition’s refusal to let Biloela Tamil family stay – The Guardian
- Treasury: Govt help on housing useless without supply reforms – Interest.co.nz