Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How Imports Boost Employment – Project Syndicate
- Economists in Denial – Project Syndicate
- Nasdaq Executive Fredrik Voss Optimistic About Blockchain in Capital Markets – Coin Telegraph
- Japan Supports Hitachi’s 150 Mln Member Blockchain Project – Coin Telegraph
- How Dangerous Is a Stock Market of Mindless Robots? – WSJ
- Global value chains in developing economies – VOX
- Warren Buffett Has ‘No Doubt’ on Passive Bet – WSJ
- Buffett Says $100 Billion Has Been Wasted on Hedge Fund Fees – Bloomberg
- Buffett slams Wall Street ’monkeys’, says hedge funds, advisors have cost clients $100 billion – CNBC
- We’re Annotating Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter – Bloomberg
- Study finds poverty reduces brain power – Reuters
- Child-induced fatigue costs economy dear, says new study – The Guardian
- Socialism Is Bad – Forbes
- Investors’ flight from hedge funds slows in January – MarketWatch
- Warren Buffett rails against fee-hungry Wall Street managers – Reuters
- Dealing with Sovereign Debt—The IMF Perspective – IMF
- Trumponomics and the S&P 500 – VOX
- Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World’s Top Crude Oil Producer – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Former economic council director derides Trump’s debt tweet – Politico
- Presentation to governors estimates big coverage losses under GOP health plan – Axios
- Donald Trump’s Presidential Run Began in an Effort to Gain Stature – NY Times
- Majority of Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president: Poll – NBC
- It’s time for Democrats to become the party of American exceptionalism – Washington Post
- The Generals Guarding American Democracy – Politico
Europe:
- Modelling France’s presidential election – The Economist
- Fox News Interview With Fake Expert on Sweden Further Baffles Swedes – The Intercept
- Documents Indicate Germany Spied on Foreign Journalists – Der Spiegel
- Netherlands holds inquiry on euro after ECB easing hits Dutch pensions – The Telegraph
- Dutch relations with euro up for debate after lawmakers commission probe – Reuters
- Londoners ’stranded with no money’ as Barclays bank system crashes nationwide – Standard
- EC rebuffs euro clearing relocation policy in Emir review – Risk
- Sweden, Nation of Open Arms, Debates Implications of Immigration – NY Times
- Paris mayor, Clooney fire back at Trump for insulting city – AP
- Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War – New Yorker
- Brexit is another Iraq – Mainly Macro
- The truth about refugees in Sweden – Washington Post
- UK officials now think Russia may have interfered with the Brexit vote – Business Insider
Asia:
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- In China, sources face harassment, jail for speaking to foreign media – cpj
- How can Xi Jinping project strength in first handshake with Trump? – SCMP
- Hollywood Is Left Hanging as China Reins In Investments – WSJ
- Even China Can’t Kill Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- China overtakes U.S., France as Germany’s most important trading partner – Reuters
- China overtakes US and France as Germany’s biggest trading partner – CNBC
- China says no intention of using currency devaluation to its advantage – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- IPA Hacks: Immigrants boost the economy and should be welcomed – The AFR
- Generation Y should be plotting a revolution – Canberra Times
- NBN customers complain of unreliable home phone service, dropouts – News.com.au
- The ‘absurd’ parliamentary rule that requires 4000 printed sheets – The SMH
- By teaching children to fear men, we are letting our kids down – The Age
- Federal police association warns of growing ‘imbalance of power’ in force – The Guardian
- Taxpayers to pay for oil spill clean-ups under petroleum resource rent tax – The Guardian
- Big retailers to seize on penalty rates change to push through new deals with workers – The SMH
- Not raising white flag on omnibus: Cormann – SBS
- Global battery storage industry to fight Australia home bans – Renew Economy
- A pointless war – The declassified Iraq War Dossier – The SMH
- Explainer: how Australia decides who is a genuine refugee – The Conversation
- The 10,000-Mile Journey To Short Australia – Bloomberg
- Investors pushing business to avoid a carbon bust – The SMH
- The postie always rings twice: Abbott and Fahour give Coalition the smell of death – The Guardian
- Michael Photios resigns as the leader of NSW Liberal’s dominant left faction – The SMH
- All-timber apartments assembled like flat-packed furniture – ABC
- Fact or fiction – is sugar addictive? – The Conversation
- WA One Nation candidates disendorsed by party for failing to ‘reach standards’ – ABC
- Blackouts: How market operator BoM-ed out on weather forecasts – Renew Economy
- Just as neoliberalism is finally on its knees, so too is the left – The Guardian
- John Hewson: Career politicians aren’t qualified to run the country – The SMH
- Want to fix Auckland housing? Then fix Australia’s labour market – Interest.co.nz
- Housing rents in Auckland up as much as 11.1% year-on-year – Interest.co.nz