Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Wall Street’s Cold Shoulder Drives Coal Veteran to the Exit – Bloomberg
- Paypal withdraws support for facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency – The Verge
- Basic Income Recipients Spent the Money on “Literal Necessities” – Futurism
- Dow Continues Nosedive, Dropping More than 1100 Points in Three Days – BeInCrypto
- A Wealth Tax Is Pro-Growth – NY Times
Americas:
- Even High-Income Millennials Fear They’ll Need to Work Forever – Bloomberg
- Trade war damage is ‘more significant than most Americans ever realized’ – Yahoo
- As Rural Groceries Fade Away, Lawmakers Wonder Whether to Act – PEW Trusts
- Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck – The Guardian
- Mall vacancy rate at 8-year high. Record 7300 retail stores closed so far this year. – Retail Drive
- Rwanda is banning all US imports of second hand clothing & launching a country-wide “Made in Rwanda” initiative – QZ
- The Best Economic News No One Wants to Talk About – The Atlantic
- CEOs better wake up to the new breed of Elizabeth Warren capitalism, warns GOP pollster – CNBC
- Strong Jobs Report Quashes Recession Fears – The New American
- A Look At Millennial Student Debt – Forbes
- A major threat to our economy — The student loan system is underwater – Fox Business
Europe:
- Britain paid £150m a week to Europe, not £350m as claimed in the 2016 referendum – INews
- Man in France who killed four colleagues had ‘radical vision of Islam’ – SCMP
- German workers win right to 28-hour working week – Telegraph
- Estonia backs European net zero carbon target. Poland loses an ally – Climate Change News
- Denmark calls for EU ban on all diesel and petrol cars by 2040 – Reuters
- Sweden’s plan to hand out residence permits to Brits after a no-deal Brexit – The Local
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Asia:
- A Chinese company that has never sold one phone in China is Africa’s top-selling phone maker and just listed for $6.5 billion – QZ
- A Day in the Life of a Chinese Young Lady in Shanghai China – YouTube
- EU to ease post-Fukushima restrictions on Japanese food imports possibly by yearend – Japan Times
- Hong Kong Metro System to Remain Shut as City Reels From Night of Violent Protests – Reuters
- Hong Kong Leader Invokes Colonial-era Emergency Powers to Ban Masks, Sparking More Protests – Washington Post
- Hong Kong Marks China’s National Day With Citywide Unrest – Time
Trans-Tasman:
- Alexander Downer said migrants in Australia were setting up ‘Bantustan-style ghettos’ – The Age
- Centennial Coal massively increased emissions from two mines with no penalty – The Guardian
- The Morrison Government is mortgaging all our futures – Independent Australia
- Drought-stricken dairy farmers watch the river run by, unable to access it – ABC
- Fractured future: Water fears as drilling for gas begins in the NT – The Age
- ‘Incredibly worrying’: legal fight looms around Australia over clampdown on protest – The Guardian
- If the PM thought money for farmers was ‘welfare’, they’d be getting robodebt notices – The Guardian
- Rate cuts? The banks won’t pass them on, because you don’t force them to – ABC
- Negative interest rates ahoy! – Interest.co.nz
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