Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The 4 levels of bots: How to stop worrying and love AI – Venture Beat
- Understanding the long-run effects of Africa’s slave trades – VOX
- Market timing is a mug’s game – elstonviews.blogspot.com
Americas:
- The Declining US Labor Share, Explicated – Conservable Economist
- 229 House Republicans just voted to keep Trump’s tax returns secret – Think Progress
- Is The United States Still The United States? – Huffington Post
- What Is a Populist? And is Trump One? – The Atlantic
- GOP Intel chair says Flynn did the country a ‘big favor’ – Yahoo
- 50% Of College Students Believe Their Student Loans Will Be Forgiven By Federal Government – Zero Hedge
- Trump looks to refocus his presidency in address to Congress – AP
- Social media, political donations and incumbency advantage in the US – VOX
- Trump Fans Rally Across the Nation to Support the President – NY Times
- Turns out, Uber is clogging the streets – NY Daily News
- Trump seeks ’historic’ increase of 9 percent in U.S. military’s budget – Reuters
- Why the Battle for Leadership of the Democratic Party Mattered – The Atlantic
- The Immigration Debate We Need – NY Times
- The Illusory Flaws of ‘Border Adjustment’ – WSJ
- Mexico warns U.S. it will cut off NAFTA talks if tariffs proposed – Breaking911
- Mexico’s Trade Reply to Trump – WSJ
Europe:
- Russia Looks to Exploit White House ‘Turbulence,’ Analysts Say – NY Times
- George W. Bush on Trump’s Ties to Russia: – Bloomberg
- Paul Ryan: ’We Know Russia Meddled in the Election, No One Is Disputing That’ – Mediaite
- Lords to defeat Brexit bill over EU citizens – Sky
- Barcelona opens ’Europe’s first’ sex doll brothel – The Local
- Poland sees 100,000-200,000 Poles coming home after Brexit – Reuters
- ECB won’t announce another round of TLTROs, say traders – Reuters
- Defending the Euro Starts With Cleaning Up the Banks – WSJ
Asia:
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- China eyes 12 percent broad money supply rise in 2017: sources – Reuters
- Big names caught in China capital crackdown – FT
- China Will Rein in Growth, Credit Targets in 2017 Master Plan: Economists – Bloomberg
- China says it has received its largest foreign drone order: Xinhua – Reuters
- China’s Expensive New Airports Lack One Thing: Passengers – WSJ
- China’s Continuing Credit – NY Fed
- North Korea Executes Officials as Malaysia Probe Continues – WSJ
- China bankruptcy cases surge as economy slows – FT
- ‘Bad Banks’ Spread Across China – WSJ
- China may offer rewards for second child – Canberra Times
Trans-Tasman:
- The source of Do-Nothing’s poll problems are way worse than Abbott – Canberra Times
- Housing squeeze pushed down coast as city dwellers flee Sydney – ABC
- Cory Bernardi invites Tony Abbott to join Australian Conservatives – The Guardian
- Centrelink outside the law on robo-debt recovery – The Age
- Labor disrupts parliament over Centrelink – The SMH
- As the Liberal Party continues to fracture, we may be watching its demise – The Conversation
- Company tax cuts could lead to lower living standards for Australians: Greg Jericho – The Guardian
- Australian Border Force conducting illegal searches due to poor training, says auditor – The Guardian
- Forget the banks – health insurance makes them look like amateurs – The SMH
- Coalition urges business to help fight Labor’s penalty rates campaign – The AFR
- ‘Australian Millennials Fear Being Poorer Than Their Parents. They’re also worried about terrorism.’ – Bloomberg News
- With Donald Trump scaring allies, Australia has never been so popular – The SMH
- Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged to secure natural gas for Australia as exports threaten jobs – ABC
- How Goldman Sachs and Australia’s biggest brewer SAB pay no tax – Michael West
- Labor calls for NBN chief’s pay to be cut – News.com.au
- The LNP Welfare Card: the true facts exposed. Corruption disguised as philanthropy! – The Aimn
- Australia can build a cheap power grid relying on 100 percent renewable energy: Research – IB Times
- Australia finally has mandatory data breach notification – IT News
- Labor, the Greens, Xenophon and Hinch call on Brandis to explain Bell Group role – SBS
- Robots to roam shopping aisles taking ‘shelfies’ to fight shoplifting – Herald-Sun
- Government ignores advice, appoints Minerals Council boss to ABC board – The SMH
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‘Housing’ the key election issue – Interest.co.nz
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Migration settings about right – English – Interest.co.nz
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National Party support rises slightly – Interest.co.nz
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