Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Managing Director Christine Lagarde Calls for Decisive and Collaborative Action by G-20 Leaders as Global Growth Moderates and Risks Increase – IMF
- Why is climate change so hard to tackle? – The Economist
- Microsoft tops Apple to become No. 1 on Wall Street – Seattle Times
- Microsoft’s market value overtakes Apple’s to close out week – Reuters
- The Stock Market’s Dangers Are Easier to See Now – NY Times
- Monetary Policy Strategies for a Low-Neutral-Interest-Rate World – NY Fed
- The Amazing Madoff Clawback – WSJ
- Blockchain platform goes live for North Sea crude oil trading – Reuters
- Credit faces worst year since 2008 as strains intensify – FT
- It’s Not the Economy, Stupid – NY Times
- A Warming Climate Brings New Crops to Frigid Zones – WSJ
- BRICS slam protectionism as China-U.S. spat overshadows G20 talks – Reuters
Americas:
- ‘I Love You, Too’: George Bush’s Final Days – NY Times
- Bill Clinton: George H.W. Bush’s Oval Office note to me revealed the heart of who he was – Washington Post
- Investors Rev Up the Risk in Subprime Auto Deals – WSJ
- Antitrust in a Changing Economy and Changing Economics – Pro Market
- Don’t Panic Over the Budget Deficit – Barron’s
- Why Aren’t Millennials Spending? They’re Poorer Than Previous Generations, Fed Says – NPR
- What’s Stronger Than a Blue Wave? Gerrymandered Districts – NY Times
Europe:
- “State of insurrection” as fuel tax riots engulf central Paris – Reuters
- A European Goes to Trump’s Washington – NY Times
- How Trump’s Lies About Russia Were Exposed – Weekly Standard
- WTO says its rules would not force EU or UK to erect hard Irish border – Irish Times
- Brexit, Borders, and the Bank of England – NY Times
- ECB takes on PayPal with instant payment system – Reuters
- A new history of the French banking crisis during the Great Depression – VOX
- ’No deal or no Brexit’ if London rejects text – RTE
Asia:
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- Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s post-G20 dinner ends with applause; details of outcome are awaited – SCMP
- Xi-Trump talks: No additional tariffs will be imposed after Jan. 1 – cgtn
- Chip wars: China, America and silicon supremacy – The Economist
- Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag – Reuters
- Millennials in China Are Using Nudes to Secure Loans – VICE
- Americans leery of China as Trump prepares to meet Xi at G20 – Pew Research
- The China hawk who captured Trump’s ’very, very large brain’ – Politico
Trans-Tasman:
- Village Roadshow donates millions to major parties while lobbying on piracy – The Guardian
- Trump asks Morrison what happened to Turnbull – SBS
- Dutton court bid could hit other MPs: PM – SBS
- Mounting evidence that platypus populations are falling – UNSW
- Merkel uses Morrison cheat sheet – SBS
- Cosmetic surgeon says doctors should disclose their financial links with medical device manufacturers – ABC
- Nutri-Grain’s 4-star health rating could be decimated under new plans – Brisbane Times
- High school principals call for religious education to be scrapped – The SMH
- Sarah Hanson-Young says parliament needs women’s caucus that cuts across party lines – The Guardian
- Deadlocked encryption debate getting ugly – SBS
- ‘It’s not even scratched the surface’: bank victims demand royal commission 2.0 – The Guardian
- Australia’s economy is likely to have slowed, the question is by how much? – ABC
- How you could lose your house to Australia’s defamation law – The SMH
- Ageism is a ‘rampant’ form of discrimination in our workplaces, experts warn – ABC
- Victorian election victory for Greens in Brunswick – ABC
- ‘How about he rings?’: PM’s woman problem hits peak farce – The SMH
- Why section prices are high in most major urban areas, and solutions – Interest.co.nz
- Is there life left in the housing investor? – Interest.co.nz
- New residential building up by 6.7% in year to October – Interest.co.nz
