Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The innovation network – VOX
- Do Regulations Really Kill Jobs? – The Atlantic
- Soros Says Markets to Slump With Trump, EU Faces Disintegration – Bloomberg
- Debunking the NAIRU myth – FT Alphaville
- How Hedge Funds Get Rich (Hint: It’s Not Their Returns) – Of dollars and data
- How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next – The Guardian
- In Davos, Financiers Bewildered by Global Uncertainty – NY Times
- Bond Guru Who Called Last Bear Market 40 Years Ago Says Go Long – Bloomberg
- Don’t Blame Davos Man for Globalization’s Limits – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Speech–Yellen, The Economic Outlook and the Conduct of Monetary Policy–January 19, 2017 – Fed Reserve
- The Ways That Pop Economics Hurt America – Bloomberg
- George Soros calls Trump a ’would-be dictator’ who ’is going to fail’ – CNBC
- Trump team prepares dramatic cuts – The Hill
- Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue and millions of jobs – The Guardian
- Watching Trump Win from the White House – New Yorker
- On the Inauguration of Donald Trump: Preserve, Protect, and Defend – New Yorker
- Democrats prepare for Trump with one of the earliest resistance movements ever to greet a new president – Washington Post
- Obama grants final 330 commutations to nonviolent drug offenders – Washington Post
- Who’s in Trump’s Cabinet? – CNN
- On Eve of Inauguration, Americans Expect Nation’s Deep Political Divisions to Persist – People Press
- Donald Trump Seen Bringing ‘Deliberate Chaos’ to the White House – WSJ
- City of Denver giving homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town – 9News
- Our kids may never get the chance to know America – The Correspondent
- This is how American health care kills people – The Week
- El Chapo, Mexican Drug Kingpin, Extradited to the U.S. – NY Times
Europe:
- Brexit: Welsh lamb ’perfect storm’ fear over New Zealand deal – BBC
- Russian prostitute: Putin is right about us being the best – NY Post
- Russia has gone crazy for Trump as Moscow savors Obama’s departure – Washington Post
- Russia Fears That Trump Won’t Be Such a Great Deal After All – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- China is desperately trying to control what information the public can get about pollution – Quartz
- China Economy Grows by 6.7% in 2016, With Big Help From Stimulus – WSJ
- China’s Q3 Balance of Payments Data Helps Explain Why Q3 Reserves Fell So Much – Council on Foreign Relations
- Everyone has got China’s debt problem all wrong – Business Insider
- China says can resolve trade disputes with new U.S. government – Reuters
- Xi says China stays committed to upholding world peace – Xinhua
Trans-Tasman:
- Police chase driver in Melbourne’s CBD, pedestrians hit, reports shots fired – The Age
- More voters blame energy price rises on privatisation than renewables – polling – The Guardian
- Nick Xenophon pushes to decriminalise public service leaks after Centrelink scandal – The Guardian
- What is the point of this government? It’s time for Malcolm Turnbull to tell us his agenda – The SMH
- Abbott criticises ‘leadership revolving door’ – Sky News
- Melbourne lord mayor Robert Doyle to propose ban on sleeping rough in city – The Age
- New Health Minister Used Maiden Speech To Call For US-Style Healthcare – BuzzFeed
- Ultra, super, clean coal power? We’ve heard it before – The Conversation
- Public service high flyers must wait for their money – The SMH
- Inner-city apartment living causing major school problems in Brisbane – The SMH
- New Left faction that threatens to white ant the Greens – The SMH
- Alcoa’s Portland smelter rescued by federal and state government bailout – The Guardian
- Abetz insists Centrelink problems resolved – SBS
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