Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Economic Inequality and Human Enhancement – The Future Scape
- Global Debt Surges to a Record $250 Trillion, Highlighting a Need for Bitcoin – Be In Crypto
- Fed’s push into funding markets stirs fears of widening role – Politico
- Airbus scores major deals as Boeing falters at Dubai airshow – DW
Americas:
- US watchdog backs Bezos’ protest over key Pentagon launch program – Channel News Asia
- How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0 – NY Times
- Brace For Impact! The U.S. Economy Is Going Down, And It Is Going Down Hard… – The Economic Collapse
- U.S commercial real estate lending activity remains positive in Q3 – CRE Herald
- Canadian Capital Markets Thrive without National Regulator – FCPP
- To Lower Costs, Trump to Force Hospitals to Reveal Price of Care – NY Times
Europe:
- German economy to stagnate but no recession coming – Bundesbank – Euro News
- Czechs to impose 7% tax on global internet giants – AP News
- Netflix’s ‘The King’ is anti-French nonsense that flatters a war criminal, says director of Agincourt museum – The Telegraph
- EU says escalating violence in Hong Kong ‘unacceptable’ – Reuters
- Poland Moves Ahead With $60 Billion Nuclear Power Project – Bloomberg
- 2019 Greek Primary Surplus Exceeds Target By Several Billion Euros – Greek Reporter
Asia:
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- HSBC Has Closed Hong Kong Protesters Bank Account – BeInCrypto
- Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society – Boing Boing
- 5th largest economy plunging into recession. Fiscal stimulus needed to revive India’s stuttering economy. – Reuters
- China cuts short-term funding rate for first time since 2015 – Reuters
- Ford May Make New Electric Mustang in China, ‘Smiling’ CEO Says – Bloomberg
- Has Asia’s Third-Largest Economy Just Slipped Into a Downward Spiral? – Sputnik News
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘Barbaric’: Farmers rattled as Adani coal mine granted unlimited water access – The SMH
- Coal on ‘life support’: unions demand closure deal at Yallourn – The Age
- Government halting key part of robodebt scheme to recover debts from welfare recipients – ABC
- Robodebt: government abandons key part of debt recovery scheme in major overhaul – The Guardian
- Mental illness in Australian workplaces: Half of workers battling issues – News.com.au
- ‘New dynamic’: Frydenberg says over-60s need to retrain to boost economy – The SMH
- Australia now has a one-speed economy – and that speed is slow – The Guardian
- Telstra to buy back debt of remote customers ‘ripped off’ by unaffordable plans – ABC
- Angus Taylor is so blinded by ideology he should step down as energy minister – Renew Economy
- CBA pleads guilty to criminal breaches over hawking life insurance policies – ABC
- Tesla big battery adds new capacity and services on march to 100pct renewables grid – Renew Economy
- NBN Co is skipping “thousands” of premises a month – IT News
- Tony Abbott accuses China of bullying neighbours and warns of ‘cold peace’ – The Guardian
- National interest test added to overseas investment rules – Interest.co.nz
- Why the new tenancy rules will drive more into state housing – Interest.co.nz