Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Dow Drops 300 Points … Fears of a Recession Continue … – Stock Market News
- Dow Drops Most to Start Quarter Since 2008 – Barrons
- The Collapse Might Finally Be Here – Jalopnic
- Global Trade Is Deteriorating Fast, Sapping the World’s Economy – NY Times
- Are Workers Losing to Robots? – FRBSF
- Health care is getting more and more expensive, and low-wage workers are bearing more of the cost Is the rapidly rising cost of employer-sponsored health insurance sustainable? – VOX
- A global manufacturing recession has arrived – Next Recession
Americas:
- Trump Economy Is Failing in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan – Bloomberg
- Grim Start to U.S. Auto Sales Stirs Alarm That Collapse Is Here – Bloomberg
- America’s factories are getting crushed by Trump’s trade war, not the Fed – CNN
- A fifth of the economy is now in recession — including much of Trump country – Raw Story
- US debt jumps to $22.7 trillion — an increase of $1.2 trillion in fiscal 2019. Debt-to-GDP is more than 106% – Wolf Street
- ATM fees reach a record average of $4.72 per withdrawal, with more coming – USA Today
- ADP says 135,000 private-sector jobs created in September as hiring continues to slow – MarketWatch
- The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America’s Middle Class Can’t Afford Its Cars – WSJ
- The manufacturing sector is contracting. Analysts blame Trump’s trade war. – VOX
- What the retail apocalypse means for the American economy – CNN
- US manufacturing contracts to worst level in a decade – CNBC
- What the retail apocalypse means for the American economy – CNN
Europe:
- U.S. to Impose Tariffs on EU Goods After WTO’s Airbus Ruling – WSJ
- US to impose tariffs on EU aircraft and agricultural products – CNBC
- Sweden Unemployment Rate Approaching Highest in EU – Breitbart
- EU imposes hen welfare standards on egg imports for first time – The Guardian
- Belgium’s first sighted wolf in a century feared killed by hunters – The Guardian
- With Brexit moving closer, France and Ireland forge ties – South EU Summit
Asia:
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- Samsung Stops Production of Phones in China – Anandtech
- Visitors from Mainland China who destroy Lennon Walls will not be allowed back into Taiwan – Taiwan News
- Over 50 UK MP’s and Lords sign declaration to urge foreign secretary to impose ecomonic measures on China unless the halt ‘brutal repression of human rights’ – Humanoid
- Tensions over Hong Kong unrest flare on US college campuses – AP News
- Corrupt official caught with enough bribe money to make him richer than Jack Ma – Daily Mail
- China’s Youth are Trapped in the Cult of Nationalism – Foreign Policy
- Journalist shot in face with Hong Kong police projectile will lose sight permanently in right eye, lawyer says – Hong Kong FP
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia isn’t taking the national security threat from far-right extremism seriously enough – The Conversation
- Netflix Australia Is Jacking Up Its Prices (Again) – Life Hacker
- Restaurateurs call for ‘amnesty’ to deal with wage compliance – The Age
- Insurer AXIS Capital reportedly pulls bid to cover Adani mine’s rail line – SBS
- Banks lobbied against responsible lending laws before Frydenberg softened stance – The Guardian
- RBA sets tough task with plan to take the country to ‘full employment’ – The Age
- Barnaby Joyce says Coalition risks ‘political annihilation’ in the bush over drought – The Guardian
- For mining CEOs, pressure to cut carbon footprint ‘growing every day’ – The SMH
- Super City spends $134 million settling leaky building claims – Interest.co.nz
