The Deal Professor explores a new approach for corporations in addressing shareholder activism—engaging with them—and the new Strategic Governance Advisors venture pushing this approach – NYTimes

While we’re talking engagement, Breakingviews has more on Samsung’s recent reaction to Elliott Management’s calls for changes at the South Korean giant – NYTimes

Talk about a mix of old and new school . . . . The UK’s 1000-year-old Royal Mint has announced plans to trade physical gold based on blockchain accounting with its Royal Mint Gold (RMG) product – WSJ

The US Economy experienced stronger-than-estimated Q3 growth, clocking in at 3.2 percent (up from the earlier-reported 2.9 percent) and buoyed by consumer spending – NYTimes

Good news, too, for US home prices, which have surpassed their mark of a decade ago, officially “bringing to a close the worst period for the housing market since the Great Depression” – WSJ

The next big challenge? Keeping them there – WSJ

Bad news for RBS, which is tasked with scrounging up more capital after failing its Bank of England stress test—a bad sign for a British financial system still coping with Brexit fallout – NYTimes and WSJ

Meet Minos Zombankakis, the man behind Libor – Bloomberg

Cool and creepy.  Quite the ringing endorsement for the Snapchat Spectacles, Snap’s new video glasses – WSJ

Canada wouldn’t have been at the top of my list for cruel and unusual punishment, but I don’t see how this qualifies as anything less – CBC