Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Long-Term Unemployment After the Great Recession: Causes and remedies – VOX
- Cheap Gas Tests Trump’s Promise to Revive Coal – WSJ
- The Undeserving Rich – Mises
- Dollar hits nine-month high as U.S. yields climb, seen at cusp of bull phase – Reuters
- How To Think Like A Contrarian – Stock cats
- Financial globalisation and monetary policy effectiveness – VOX
- Era of Low Interest Rates Hammers Millions of Pensions Around World – WSJ
Americas:
- What Normalization Means – New Yorker
- Ryan Plans to Phase Out Medicare in 2017 – Talking Points Memo
- Trump voters: We did hear you; we just thought better of you – Washington Post
- ’We’re called redneck, ignorant, racist. That’s not true’: Trump supporters explain why they voted for him – LA Times
- Trump pits establishment against populism at the top of his White House team – Washington Post
- Trump out-campaigned Clinton in key battlegrounds in final stretch – NBC
- One-third of Clinton supporters say Trump election is not legitimate, poll finds – Washington Post
- Dukakis calls for end to Electoral College – Politico
- This was no whitelash, it was a vote to get America working – The Times
- Warren Buffett backs Donald Trump—with some reservations – CNBC
- Trump and the Revolt of the Rust Belt – LSE
- Donald Trump vows to immediately deport 3million illegal immigrants – The Telegraph
- How the Democrats lost the white working class – Washington Examiner
- What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class – HBR
Europe:
- Berlusconi opens up about Trump, Putin and the failure of political correctness – Washington Post
- Barack Obama calls for ’meaningful debt relief’ for Greece – The Guardian
- Is Trump reaching out to Europe’s far right before he talks with the heads of state? – Washington Post
- How Leave won: behind the scenes in the battle for Brexit – FT
- Banks ’will pull out of Britain’ unless Theresa May sorts out post-Brexit plan – The Independent
- Obama: Greeks ’need hope’, Alexis Papachelas – ekathimerini.com
Asia:
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- Renminbi trading band set at weakest level in 7 years – FT
- China Trumps Trump When It Comes to Infrastructure – Bloomberg
- China’s stable growth raises doubts – The Economist
- India Surprises with a Wealth Tax on the Black Market – Marginal Revolution
Trans-Tasman:
- Turnbull’s asylum seeker ban violates Australia’s human rights obligations – The Conversation
- Labor says ‘snobby disdain’ for disadvantaged led to rise of Trump and Hanson – The Guardian
- Donald Trump backer says Australia-US refugee swap deal is ‘dead on arrival’ – Brisbane Times
- Race to resettle refugees in US before deal is overturned by President-elect Donald Trump – Perth Now
- Watch out supermarkets: Amazon’s small stores on way to Australia – The SMH
- Don’t muzzle people’: Shane Warne claims Australia is becoming ‘too PC’ – Yahoo
- Rural residents are the collateral damage: NBN rollout – The Land
- “Fig leaf” inquiry into 18C could weaken free speech – Mark Dreyfus – The AFR
- Repealing 18C will consign the idea of a ‘fair go’ to the dustbin of Australian history | Richard di Natale – The Guardian
- IVF clinics misleading couples about success rate, ACCC finds – The Guardian
- Bill Shorten: power industry needs future jobs plan – News.com.au
- Woodside signs up ex-minister Macfarlane – SBS
- Australia Should Scrap Big-Denomination Bank Notes, UBS Says – Bloomberg
- Melbourne suburbs where house prices have fallen the most this year – Domain
- Mass property exodus is underway in Sydney as prices continue to hike upwards. – Yahoo
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Key says quake repairs to cost billions – Interest.co.nz
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