Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Artificial Intelligence And Blockchain: A Perfect Match – Medium
- The $4 trillion force propelling US stocks to record highs – CNN
- The Next Wave of Debt Monetization Will Be a Disaster – Epoch Times
- 150 Years Of Bank Credit Expansion Is Near Its End – Zero Hedge
- Investors Bet on Volatility Comeback in 2020 – Stock Market News
Americas:
- Farm bankruptcies jump to highest level since 2011 as Trump’s tariffs bite – Business Insider
- Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry – LA Times
- American health care’s life-destroying “surprise bills” are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies – Boing Boing
- Middle-class families getting priced out of new American cars – CBS News
- Boeing Outsourced U.S. Jobs to $9-an-Hour Foreign Workers – Breitbart
- Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Jumps Higher Amid Impeachment Frenzy – Breitbart
- Trumps trade war losses will never be recovered, shipping data tells us – CNBC
- Angry savers emailed Janet Yellen: We’re getting crushed by low rates – CNN
Europe:
- EU cuts Turkey’s pre-accession funds by €85 million – Duvar English
- Thousands of new-born calves illegally killed each year in Germany – DW
- Police attacked during ‘machete’ brawl at Birmingham cinema – The Guardian
- Romania: Seeking a return to normality – DW
- German mayor resigns after far-right threats, intimidation – SF Chronicle
- German Holocaust victims’ group loses charity status – DW
- Merkel ally calls for better Franco-German ties after NATO row – Reuters
Asia:
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- Hong Kong Democrats Cheer Landslide Victory in Local Elections Amid Political Crisis – Reuters
- Hong Kong Voters, Fearing Clashes and Shutdown of Polling Stations, Turn Out Early in Local Elections – Japan Times
- China Could “Turn Off Power” in the Philippines – BBC
- Data Leak Details China’s “Brainwashing System” – BBC
- China Will Not Resort to Competitive Yuan Devaluation – Reuters
- Leak exposes reality of China’s prison camp network – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- Scott Morrison and the big lie about climate change: does he think we’re that stupid? – The Guardian
- ASIO investigating reports of Chinese plot to install agent in Parliament – ABC
- China tried to plant its candidate in Federal parliament, authorities believe – The Guardian
- Australian fashion brands paying overseas workers 62 cents an hour, Oxfam says – SBS
- Federal Government’s push to move shrinking public service to the bush isn’t working – ABC
- Morrison government flouts law on Freedom of Information – The Age
- The political classes are stuck and the consequences could be catastrophic – The SMH
- Westpac freezes executives’ bonuses following money laundering scandal – ABC
- Thousands of surfers protest oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight – CBS News
- Would an easing of mortgage lending restrictions set the housing market alight? – Interest.co.nz
- Another week in tax: What went wrong with introducing a capital gains tax – Interest.co.nz