Global Macro
- ExxonMobil flexes its geopolitical muscles. Quartz
- An information diet for the 2012 election. BigThink. We spoke about the election and information diets in this week’s Macro Investor.
- Do we live in the golden age of investing? MintLife
North America
- Frankenstorm may have shut the NYSE, but US money markets return to the Eurozombie. Financial Times
- But forget the markets, and think of the travellers: US airlines thrown into chaos. Wall Street Journal
- And here’s a bit of background on hurricanes. National Hurricane Center
- Live updates. ABC News
Europe
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- Murdoch in bid for Pearson’s Penguin. Financial Times
- Viktor Yanukovych claims victory in Ukraine. BBC
- And Social Democrat/Labour coalition likely to win government in Lithuania. Guardian
- Is Europe’s emissions trading system broken? Der Spiegel
- Mikhail Prokhorov trades business for opposition politics. Moscow Times
Asia
- Wen Jiabao’s family dispute $2.7bn wealth claims. South China Morning Post
- And here’s the explosive article that started it all. New York Times. Great journalism.
- Indonesia roles ahead. The Diplomat
- China the new challengers in global construction. The Economist
- China the new challenger in Central Asian geopolitics. The National Interest
- Chen Guangcheng on political reform in China. The Atlantic
- Daniel Twining on political reform in China. Financial Times
- Stanley Lubman on judicial reform in China. Wall Street Journal
- Meet Daniel Foa, the mop-haired, Wimbledon-born son-in-law of Xi Jinping. Telegraph
- The cost of being pretty in Thailand. BBC
Local
- The passive-aggressive Reserve Bank of Australia. FT Alphaville
- Asian Century response: hogwash. Alan Kohler
- Asian Century response: balderdash. Greg Sheridan
- Asian Century response: p-o-l-i-c-y. Graeme Dobell
- A far more important document: DFATs 2012 annual report. Australian Government
- Miscellaneous stuff about internal ALP politics. Amanda Vanstone
- Vodafone to slash 500 jobs. The Australian
- Reforms needed for affordable power. Financial Review
Interesting/Other
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- Beijing cracks down on those who want to list Buddhist temples or Taoist shrines on the sharemarket. Want China Times
- The wilderness fetish is bad for people and the planet. Aeon