Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Future challenges of financial regulation – VOX
- Bitcoin Exchange ‘Extremely Concerned’ With IRS Effort to Identify Users – WSJ
- S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq, Russell 2000 Hit Record Highs as Oil Jumps – Bloomberg
- Why Saudi Arabia’s Oil Giant Aims to Be Big in Chemicals, Too – WSJ
- Should We Use Expansionary Fiscal Policy Now Even If the Economy Is at Full Employment? Yes! – Brad DeLong
- Global Trumpism Seen Harming Efforts to Reduce Climate Pollution – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump’s Debt to the Financial Crisis – Bloomberg
- Trump’s toughest transition test: the Trump Organization – NY Post
- The New York Times, other outlets crying ’wolf’ over Trump – The Hill
- Donald Trump’s Business Dealings Test a Constitutional Limit – NY Times
- The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump – Washington Post
- Bernie Sanders: “It is not good enough for someone to say, ’I’m a woman! Vote for me!’” – VOX
- When Did Americans Stop Being Antimonopoly? – Pro-Market
- Which Republican Senators Are Most Likely To Fight Trump? – FiveThirtyEight
- How Donald Trump’s path to power eerily parallels Vladimir Putin’s – The Week
- How Hard (or Easy) It Will Be for Trump to Fulfill His 100-Day Plan – NY Times
- The Donald Trump Trade Effect: Watch the Peso, Not Ford – WSJ
- Why Trump Is Desperate to Sign a Huge Infrastructure Bill – NY Mag
- Build He Won’t – NY Times
- Donald Trump Poised to Pressure Mexico on Trade – WSJ
- Brazil cuts 2017 growth forecast as recession lingers – Reuters
- Why populism is in retreat across Latin America – The Economist
Europe:
- Jeff Koons Is Giving Sculpture to Paris to Remember Terror Victims – NY Times
- Hackers target ATMs across Europe as cyber threat grows – Reuters
- Historian finds German decree banishing Trump’s grandfather – The Guardian
- EU to retaliate against US bank capital rules – FT
- New Russia missiles in Kaliningrad are answer to U.S. shield: lawmaker – Reuters
- Vladimir Putin Is Winning the French Election – Bloomberg
- Theresa May bids to reassure business on Brexit ’cliff-edge’ – BBC
- Corporation tax is low enough already, don’t cut it again, businesses say – The Independent
Asia:
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- Japan PM says TPP trade pact meaningless without U.S. – Reuters
- Three Charts Signal Dark December for Slumping China Bond Market – Bloomberg
- Fukushima reactor cooling system stops following quake & tsunami – RT
- Japan Looks to Increase Role of Fiscal Policy in Next Budget – Bloomberg
- China industrial survey shows continued contraction in Q3 – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- iiNet complaints skyrocket after TPG takeover – iTNews
- Malcolm Turnbull’s department buries ‘urgent’ review of offensive Wikipedia edits – The Age
- Fewer people are cycling in Sydney – the NSW government must be pleased – The Guardian
- Nigerian Government takes more in oil and gas revenue than Australia – The SMH
- Australians more alarmed about state of politics than impact of migration and minorities, survey finds – The Conversation
- Piracy drops despite no website blocks, ‘3-strikes’ scheme – Computer World
- NSW reports 40pc jump in homicides linked to domestic violence – ABC
- Elon Musk’s Hyperloop To Make Sydney 50 Mins From Melbourne – Huffington Post
- Government agrees to whistleblower protection laws in bid to pass industrial relations bills – ABC
- Hostility towards immigrants on rise as Australians despair over government – The Guardian
- Lebanese-Australian community hurt by Peter Dutton’s ‘ignorant’ criticism – ABC
- Nationals stage a late-night revolt in the Senate over the Adler shotgun ban – The SMH
- Kelly O’Dwyer speech prompts anger and derision from industry super funds – The Guardian
- The Aussie Government Is Wasting An Hour Debating ‘Disputed’ Climate Change – Gizmodo
- Interest rates have hit bottom, bond markets suggest – ABC
- Most Australians don’t think private health insurance is value for money, poll finds – The Guardian
- Our changing economy, state by state – The Guardian
- Labor says it would use Productivity Commission to ‘enshrine’ equality of opportunity – The Guardian
- Australians rank second in global per-capita wealth table – The Australian
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Treasury warns again on long-term costs of ageing – Interest.co.nz
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Migration gain hits new high of 70,300 in October year – Interest.co.nz
Other:
- The Real War on Science – City Journal