International Reads:
- Abortions now cost over $450, more than double the price before Roe was overturned, per a reproductive care nonprofit director – Business Insider
- US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’ – The Guardian
- The Starbucks Workers’ Union Has Finally Broken Through – Jacobin
- Panera Bread exempt from California wage law after Newsom donation – NY Post
- Surge in Wendy’s complaints exposes limits to consumer tolerance of unstable prices – AP News
- How Rich People Create Poverty – AIER
- Netflix May Be About To Raise Prices Yet Again Simply Because It Can – Forbes
- India GDP: Country’s economy ended 2023 ‘with a bang’ as growth surged to 8.4% – CNN Business
- A huge wealth transfer means millennials are poised to become ‘the richest generation in history’ – CNBC
- The uninsurable world: what climate change is costing homeowners – FT
- Electricity Demand Is Surging for the First Time Since the 1990s – Heat Map
- Your Bike Just Got Stolen. These Vigilantes Will Get It Back. Bike theft is booming, but so is the army of citizen sleuths fighting it.– WSJ
Australian Reads:
- Man who raped daughter ‘every second day’ for 11 years sentenced in Toowoomba court – ABC
- Secretive firm behind voice no campaign billed taxpayers almost $135,000 via Coalition MPs, documents show – The Guardian
- Why traitorous Australians can ‘walk off into the sunset’ under our current espionage laws – SBS
- Malcolm Turnbull’s son Alex Turnbull says he was contacted by Chinese agents – News.com.au
- Australia taxes its massive gas exports so weakly that we pay more on Hecs than companies do on PRRT – The Guardian
- Young women are drinking and using drugs more than ever before, but we’re not sure why – ABC
- Unnamed ‘traitor’ politician cultivated by spies puts loyalty of every politician in question, says former treasurer – ABC
- Older Australians ‘left behind’ by increasingly cashless society as banks fast track end of cheques – ABC
- ‘Very broken housing system’: More high-income earners stuck in rent trap – The SMH
- Australian politician ‘sold out’ to foreign regime after being recruited by spies, Asio boss says – The Guardian
- Queensland police to be granted power to instantly issue year-long domestic violence protection orders – The Guardian
- Airbnb says only 1% to 2% of homes in Australia are short-term rentals. What does that really mean for renters? – The Guardian
- CoreLogic says the housing market’s soft start to the year extended into February – Interest.co.nz
- MORTGAGE STRESS: Non-performing housing loans rise by over 10% in just one month – Interest.co.nz
- How the Aussie government could offer bank loans – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ performs ‘dovish pivot’ with more confidence inflation will fall – Interest.co.nz
- ANZ Business Outlook survey ‘doesn’t suggest the economy is rolling over or that inflation has been beaten’ – Interest.co.nz
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DL-S wrote about the unfolding productivity megaboom from IA, Peak Fat and other technologies at News.com.au.
