Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Comparing the 1932 open market purchases and quantitative easing – VOX
- No, this isn’t the 1930s – but yes, this is fascism – The Conversation
- Euro, Dollar Flirt With Parity – WSJ
- Why Crime Pays: The Economics of Organised Crime – Ideas Festival
- The Big Short: is the next financial crisis on its way? – The Guardian
- Bond Traders Sound Inflation Alarm Amid Worst Rout Since 2001 – Bloomberg
Americas:
- For Trump adviser Stephen Bannon, fiery populism followed life in elite circles – Washington Post
- Trump’s big infrastructure plan? It’s a trap. – Washington Post
- Donald Trump, America’s first independent president – Washington Post
- Muslim Americans Speak of Escalating Worries – NY Times
- Advisor To Trump Transition Team Considers Immigration As National Security Priority – NPR
- Donald Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Wrote Off Nearly All Immigrants From An Entire Country – Huffington Post
- White nationalists are really psyched about Donald Trump – Mother Jones
- Obama Is Considering Removing N.S.A. Leader – NY Times
- The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man – Washington Post
- The Wreckage of Obama’s Legacy – NY Times
- Infrastructure Build or Privatization Scam? – NY Times
- The one-in-six rule: can Montreal fight gentrification by banning restaurants? – The Guardian
- Speculators buying B.C. farm land while exploiting tax breaks – Globe & Mail
- Canadians are burdened by debt, yet they keep borrowing – Vice
- Mexico Seeks Trump Talks to Modernize Nafta, Pena Nieto Says – Bloomberg
Europe:
- ’Extreme surveillance’ becomes UK law with barely a whimper – The Guardian
- Russia to ask Donald Trump for help bombing Syria – Mirror Online
- Poll Finds Disunity in EU Ranks, ’Things Are Going in the Wrong Direction’ – Sputnik News
- Heavyweight Brexiteers among 60 Tory MPs to demand clean break from the EU – The Telegraph
- Germany’s Merkel says to spend more on infrastructure in election year – Reuters
Asia:
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- Donald Trump meets Indian partners, hails PM Modi’s work – India Times
- Donald Trump Meets With His Indian Business Partners Despite Blind Trust Promises – Huffington Post
- China’s Influence Grows in Ashes of Trans-Pacific Trade Pact – NY Times
- China state media warn Trump against renouncing free trade deals – Reuters
- China is at the forefront of manipulating DNA to create a new class of superhumans – Quartz
- China pledges to lead the way on global trade – FT
- Kenneth Rogoff: India’s Currency Exchange and The Curse of Cash – Princeton
Trans-Tasman:
- Liberal & Labor Battle Over Non-Elite Credentials – The Idiot Tax
- Tesla extends supercharger network to Brisbane, starts on Adelaide link – Renew Economy
- From senator to saw mill owner, the rise and rise of Ricky Muir – The Age
- Telstra accused of protection racket as it fights off other telcos to guard its business in the bush – Courier Mail
- Corporate tax cuts back on the political agenda – ABC
- Australian prime minister pushes Trump-style tax cuts – WSWS
- 457 visa: Government to cut occupations list for skilled migrants – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull plays down possible refugee resettlement deal with Malaysia – ABC
- Donald Trump likely to ask Australia to send ship to South China Sea: ex-Defence official Peter Jennings – ABC
- Paid work in Australia: First they reduce it, then they lie about it – Independent Australia
- Refugees ‘set up to fail’ by long waits for family reunion – The SMH’
- Nearly half of Queensland voters think Pauline Hanson would be a good Prime Minister – Yahoo
- Education Department forced to hand over documents on Bob Day grant controversy – The Age
- Far-right group to rally in Melbourne as Springvale fire tragedy fuels racism on social media – The Age
- Springvale Commonwealth Bank fire: Inside the life of alleged bank attacker – The Age
- Peter Martin: The case for a basic income, no questions asked – The SMH
- It’s not an accident that our wage growth is so low – Canberra Times
- In fighting to protect jobs and workers, let’s not get caught up in xenophobia – The Guardian
- Half a million face 30pc super tax – The AFR
- Turnbull in TPP rescue talks – The Australian
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