Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- A remarkably simple approach to inequality developed by physicists and mathematicians describes the distribution of wealth in modern economies with unprecedented accuracy – Scientific America
- Global CRE investment volume falls 2% y-o-y in third quarter – CRE Herald
- Global credit union movement surpasses 274 million members – CUNA
- Wall Street Has Been Gambling With Student Loan Debt for Decades – Common Dreams
- How Central Banks Fund Our Age of Endless War – Mises
- World record in negative rates has bankers testing no-man’s land – Business Times
Americas:
- Elizabeth Warren wants to send Jeff Bezos a $6 Billion Dollars tax bill. – CNBC
- U.S. Coal Bankruptcies Reveal The Future Of Alberta Tar Sands – Forbes
- Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire World – Global Research Canada
- 30% of Americans Believe the U.S. Dollar Is Backed by Gold – Be In Crypto
- These states are getting hit hardest by the pension crisis – USA Today
- Toronto Drops Rent Control — So Builders Build More Housing – News Wars
- University Endowments should bail out students loans over the tax payers – Harvard Magazine
- A slowing economy shows the US must break free from the curse of financialisation – New Statesmans
- Coal Jobs Are About to Take Another Hit – Yahoo
- Trump’s ‘blowout’ jobs number looks like fuzzy math – Politico
- California Destroys $1 Trillion Gig Economy With New Law – Forbes
- As Big Business evolved, did it doom the American Dream? – Washington Post
Europe:
- Belgium authorities blacklist 9 new crypto scams – Forex Review
- French authorities indict Russian Billionaire for Tax Fraud – Capital
- Turkey vows to return IS suspects to Europe – DW
- ‘Cowardly’ Boris Johnson booed on Cambridge hospital trip – The Guardian
- Austria, the ‘ashtray of Europe’, bans smoking at eateries – Malaysian Insight
Asia:
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- China’s Fosun group to buy Thomas Cook for £11 million – The Hindu
- Scenes From a Chinese Bank Run: ‘We Really Can’t Afford to Lose the Money’ – WSJ
- Chinese Bank On Verge Of Collapse After Sudden Bank Run – Zero Hedge
- Yichuan Bank, The 4th Bank to Fail In China In the last 6 Months – 7 Bitcoins
- Hong Kong falls into first recession in 10 years!!! – Reuters
- Jobs report gives Trump a major boost in China trade talks – CNBC
- China’s Economy Struggles as Consumers Tighten Their Belts – VOA News
- China Is Heading For A Long Growth Recession, Not Because Of The Trade War – Forbes
Trans-Tasman:
- Scott Morrison pledges to outlaw climate boycotts – Washington Post
- If you think Labor’s “too progressive”, you couldn’t be more wrong. – The Guardian
- One billion containers returned to the Qld container deposit scheme as it celebrates first birthday – ABC
- Australians are yelling in grief and frustration – but will Scott Morrison act? – The Guardian
- Taylor’s ‘expert panel’ in search of emissions reductions shuts out clean energy sector – Renew Economy
- Another grim week leaves private health insurance on life support – Google News
- Promised $1080 tax burst ends up much more modest – The SMH
- Australia: Official unemployment figures downplay growing jobs crisis – WSWS
- Aged care royal commission has had a third of the coverage of banks’ bad behaviour. – ABC
- China is hungry for Australian beef, but every second kilo they buy could be fake – ABC
- ‘Difficult to imagine worse conduct’: Dodgy training college hit with $4 million in penalties – News