Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The time to reinstate food systems in the pantheon of economic policies is now – WEF
- Supply chain crisis will leave permanent scar, UPS warns – FT
- Natural-Gas Prices Surge, and Winter Is Still Months Away – WSJ
- Russia And China Are Looking To Tap Afghanistan’s $1 Trillion Resource Reserves – Yahoo
- AI will ‘exacerbate’ wealth inequality and help ultra-rich: Ex-Google exec – Yahoo
- Global debt is fast approaching record $300 trillion – Reuters
Americas:
- The Biden administration could sidestep McConnell’s refusal to pay America’s bills by minting a $1 trillion platinum coin – Business Insider
- US Rents Increased By Double-Digits in August – Christophe Barraud
- California’s job growth tripled the nation’s, even as the Delta variant spread – LA Times
- Democrats want to tax the very rich. Here’s who they are – CNN
- States that ended COVID unemployment benefits see no boost in job growth – Axios
- Why Washington Worries About Stablecoins – NY Times
Europe:
- Norway the best economy in the world? – Think Write Rise
- Out of the Red: The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy – The Battle Ground
- France calls on EU allies to freeze Australia out of free-trade agreement – The Australian
- France denies cancelling meeting with Swiss president over jet snub – Times of Malta
- Brussels mulls OneWeb stake to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink – The Telegraph
- Dutch king, PM unveil Amsterdam memorial naming nation’s 102,000 Holocaust dead – Times of Israel
Asia:
- Evergrande employees in China held hostage as worried investors demand payments – Straits Times
- Evergrande Gave Workers a Choice: Loan Us Cash or Lose Your Bonus – NY Times
- Evergrande collapse could have a ‘domino effect’ on China’s property sector, AllianceBernstein says – CNBC
- Evergrande bosses face ‘severe punishment’ after securing early redemptions – FT
- China shows why Asia’s casino bubble was always doomed – Nikkei
- China’s Property Curbs Send Economic Tremors – WSJ
- China: ‘We really are not even in the beginning stages’ of the tech crackdown, short-seller says – Yahoo
- Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit – Nikkei
Trans-Tasman:
- NSW police never started investigating Christian Porter rape allegation, an internal review document reveals – The Guardian
- Christian Porter goes to the backbench with his PM aspirations in tatters – ABC
- Porter could return to frontbench: Barnaby Joyce – New Daily
- Koala numbers plummet by 30 per cent in three years – News.com.au
- Byron Bay antivaxxers use no-show tactics to fight vaccine rollout – News.com.au
- Police investigate after Age photographer capsicum-sprayed during Melbourne protest – ABC
- Who sold the nuclear submarines – and our sovereignty? – New Daily
- ‘It’s unusual’: Emus seek greener pastures in long migration south – ABC
- Australia’s foreign policy is getting clumsy and arrogant – The SMH
- AUKUS security pact: a story of recklessness and delusion – John Menadue
- Australian government sinks another $150 million into hydrogen industry – Brisbane Times
- Auckland to move to Level 3 on Wednesday for two weeks – Interest.co.nz
- Big challenges for the Government – Interest.co.nz
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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