Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans – Weather.com
- BOJ, ECB to Jointly Study Digital-Currency Technology – WSJ
- Gold appetite hit a 5-year high in November as prices tumbled – MarketWatch
- Are Low Interest Rates Natural or Artificial? – PIIE
- A Dilemma for Humanity: Stark Inequality or Total War – NY Times
- The Dividends of Funding Basic Science – WSJ
- Is dividend investing dangerous? – ThinkNewFound
- Investors Are Pricing Junk-Energy Bonds Like $80 Per-Barrel Oil Is Back – Bloomberg
Americas:
- How to Know What Donald Trump Really Cares About: Look at What He’s Insulting – NY Times
- Top Dem super PAC launches anti-Trump war room – The Hill
- Hundreds Of Immigrant Moms And Kids Freed From Detention After Texas Court Ruling – Huffington Post
- CoreLogic: House Prices up 6.7% Year-over-year in October – Calculated Risk
- Wall Street as Landlord: Blackstone Going Public with a $10 Billion Bet on Foreclosed Homes – WSJ
- Mexico Overtakes Canada as No. 2 U.S. Exporter Ahead of Trump – Bloomberg
- How to build a new majority in American politics – VOX
Europe:
- What can be done to stop an Italian banking crisis? – FT
- Hunt for alternative to Libor struggles four years after rigging scandal – The Telegraph
- May says she will reveal Brexit plan before triggering article 50 – The Guardian
- The Uniqueness of Italian Internal Divergence – Notes on Liberty
- German leader Angela Merkel says ’full veil is not appropriate here’ in astonishing U-turn – The Sun
Asia:
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- The Bank of Japan at the policy frontier – VOX
- Naked selfies used as collateral for Chinese loans – Yahoo
- Wooed by Donald Trump, Taiwan Trembles – Taiwan
- Trump slammed as ‘diplomatic rookie’ by Chinese state media – The Hill
- Japanese men and women ’giving up dating and marrying friends’ – The Independent
- China flew nuclear-capable bombers around Taiwan before Trump call – NBC
- Taiwan’s leader says call with Trump didn’t reflect U.S. policy change – Washington Post
- China stocks edge lower, Shenzhen shares outperform – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Victorian Government set to hold conscience vote on assisted dying after accepting committee findings – ABC
- Guilty until proven innocent – Centrelink gone rogue – Andrew Wilkie
- Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband – The Conversation
- Australian economy shrinks 0.5pc in September quarter, worst fall since global financial crisis – ABC
- Political donations to reach $1 billion thanks to big business donors – ABC
- ‘What an extraordinary, gutless capitulation by Josh Frydenberg’ – The Guardian
- ABS should split from IBM after Census fail, says PM’s cybersecurity adviser – crn.com
- Households to power up to half Australia, zero emissions within reach: CSIRO – The SMH
- Police will no longer need court approval to get DNA samples from suspects – The Age
- Why ‘everyone will lose’ under NSW Premier Mike Baird’s latest sell-off plans – The SMH
- Kevin Rudd: Factions will strangle Labor if the party does not embrace reform – The SMH
- ACOSS criticises government’s ‘appalling’ jail threats to welfare recipients – The Guardian
- Peter Costello says backpacker tax a waste of time – ABC
- Accountant not needed: ATO virtual assistant doles out free Australian tax advice – Tech Radar
- ‘Just don’t mention the R word’ – The Australian
- Too early to fret over GDP – The Australian
- Govt still working to 2021 budget surplus – The Australian
- Shrinking GDP a ‘wake-up call’ – The AFR
- ‘Arrogance and ignorance’: strong warning for APS – Canberra Times
- GDP dive more than a ‘wake-up call’, says Treasurer Morrison – Canberra Times
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