Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How Bitcoin’s Crash Compares to History’s Biggest Bubbles – Bloomberg
- Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare – Bloomberg
- Why suicide is falling around the world, and how to bring it down more – The Economist
- Recalculating GDP for the Facebook age – FT
- An electric plane with no moving parts has made its first flight – Tech Review
- Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett Have the Last Laugh on Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- Hedge funds reap windfalls from market rout – FT
- The hidden costs of macroeconomic moderation – FT
- Markets Are Revealing the Sum of All Risks – NY Times
Americas:
- House Intelligence Panel Hiring Money-Laundering Sleuths – Daily Beast
- A $9 trillion corporate debt bomb is ’bubbling’ in the US economy – CNBC
- Trump’s Tariffs Haven’t Really Transformed Trade. Yet. – NY Times
- Why Christmas Will Be Very Weird for Retailers – WSJ
- Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar – Reuters
- A Tax Increase Tucked Into Trump’s Tax Cut Came Back to Bite Republicans – NY Times
Europe:
- Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists – The Guardian
- May’s Brexit deal: the legal verdict – Spectator
- Steve Bannon’s far-right Europe operation undermined by election laws – The Guardian
- At least 320,000 homeless people in Britain, says Shelter – The Guardian
- EU and China break ultimate trade taboo to hit back at Trump – Politico
- We overdo our respect for the EU. Britain can flourish outside it – The Guardian
- UK and EU agree draft declaration for Brexit deal – FT
- Vote Leave loses legal challenge over Brexit spending breach – The Guardian
- Sweden’s Push to Get Rid of Cash Has Some Saying, ‘Not So Fast’ – NY Times
- The real Brexit bill: Northern Ireland – Politico
- Jeremy Corbyn to set out Labour alternative to PM’s Brexit plan – The Guardian
- A Hedge Fund Paid Boris Johnson $121,000 for Two-Hour Speech – Bloomberg
- UK’s best-paid boss earns £265m – BBC
- UK still expects Brexit deal this weekend – BBC
- Russia loses Interpol presidency vote – BBC
Asia:
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- Goldman Chairman Met Privately With Fugitive Accused in Malaysian Fraud – NY Times
- Not So Big in Japan: Apple Cuts Price of iPhone XR to Boost Sales – WSJ
- Xinjiang Authorities Sentence Uyghur Philanthropist to Death For Unsanctioned Hajj – RFA
- China Has an Achilles’ Heel: Undereducation – Bloomberg
- With eyes on China, EU agrees investment screening rules – Reuters
- One of China’s Biggest Defaulters Has a $10 Billion Plan and It’s Scaring Investors – Bloomberg
- Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Bill Shorten chooses to be the grown-up on energy as Coalition’s toddlers have a tantrum – The Guardian
- Single mum takes on Centrelink over $40k debt – and wins – 9News
- Australia has just overtaken Switzerland as the wealthiest country in the world (by median adult wealth) – ABC
- Proposed terrorism laws risk making Australians stateless, law council warns – The Guardian
- Morrison, take heed: nationalist posturing comes back to bite you – Canberra Times
- Labor’s energy policy is savvy – now is it scare proof? – ABC
- Banking royal commission: ASIC boss James Shipton questioned about regulatory failures – ABC
- Australian property sales slump to levels not seen since the early 1990s – Business Insider
- Labor will offer a rebate of up to $2,000 for households earning less than $180,000 to install residential battery systems – The Guardian
- Woodside applies to build big-polluting LNG plant – with no emissions plan – The Guardian
- Business Council excoriates Coalition’s ‘ad hoc and extreme’ energy policies – The Guardian
- Australia is missing out on a $3 billion video gaming opportunity – Igea
- Chinese investment company buys two NT melon farms for $27.5m – ABC
- Vic Libs to sell sewage service for $5b – News.com.au
- Australia’s population is projected to hit 42 million by the year 2066 – The SMH
- Co-op Money credit rating downgraded two notches to B+ – Interest.co.nz
- A summer full of answers for the housing market – Interest.co.nz
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