Note: There will not be any links for New Years Day as DE intends to enjoy his New Year Eve… Possibly a little too much 🙂
On behalf of all of the crew at Macro Associates, have a great night and we will see you all again in 2014.
Now today’s links..
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Global/Macro
- Don’t fret about soaring asset prices – this time is different – Wolfgang Münchau FT
- Gold Declines on Way to Worst Year Since 1981 as Silver Drops – Bloomberg
Australia & New Zealand
- Myer tries to placate online shoppers – SMH
- Indonesia farm ruling risks FTA – AFR
- Climate plans ‘helped kill macnufacturing’ – TheOZ
- Fears Christine will hit land at 220km/h – TheOz
- GP co-payments: extend idea to emergency departments, says adviser – Guardian
- Drinking water: Call for halt to coal mining as contamination level increases – SMH
- NZ Iron sand exports could soar after shipping expansion – NZ Herald
- $A headed for US80¢, says BlackRock – SMH
- New Zealand’s cows come home in its own commodities boom – Pascoemeter
- Chance of Sochi travel plan: Bishop – TheOz
Europe
- Monte Paschi shares volatile after cash call delay – Reuters
- Eastern Europe: A year of protest – Aljazeera
- Der Spiegel Interview with Mario Draghi, President of the ECB – ECB
- Germany Abandons Inflation Angst With Merkel Offering New Agenda – Bloomberg
- Schauble: “Low interest rates cannot continue for ever” – Reuters
- Housing bubble fear as prices soar by 9 per cent (UK) – Daily Mail
- UK plans to charge migrants, tourists for care – AP
- Almost half employment permits issued to IT sector (Ireland) – Irish Times
- LEAKED Confession: Cesspool Of Greek-German Corruption – Testotorone Pit
- Pay workers more, CBI chief tells thriving firms – Guardian
- Spain retail sales jump 1.9 percent in November – Reuters
- Greek prison system collapsing – AP
- France’s Hollande Gets Court Approval for 75% Millionaire Tax – Bloomberg
Asia
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- Second deadly blast hits Russian city – France24 , WSJ
- Ilargi: The Taper And The China Credit Power Struggle Squeeze – Naked Cap
- Eight ‘terrorists’ shot dead at Xinjiang police station: authorities – The Oz
- Japan shares look to end bumper year on strong note – Reuters
- Japan Optimism Rekindled – WSJ
- Special Report – Japan’s homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up – Reuters
- Hong Kong Exports Growth Slows In November – RTT
- Lebanese army to receive $3 billion from Saudi ‘to purchase French arms’ – France 24 , WSJ
- On Defensive, JPMorgan Hired China’s Elite – NYT
- How to Prevent a War Between China and Japan – Bloomberg
- China Says Abe Closed Door to Meetings After Visiting Shrine – Bloomberg
- China Local-Government Debt Surges to $3 Trillion – WSJ ,FT
Americas
- Cutting US unemployment benefits is cruel and stupid – Billy Blog
- Unemployment Benefits Lapse Severs Lifeline for Longtime Jobless – Bloomberg
- US broad money supply growth is slowing. – Sober Look
- Fischer, the Fed, and US Growth – Project Syndicate
- Comparing the inflated cost of living today from 1938 to 2013 – My budget 360
- “Honey, I Shrunk Killed the Middle Class” – Naked Cap
- Wolf Richter: Next Shoe To Drop In Broke California’s Lopsided ‘Recovery’ – Naked Cap
- Why Oil is Mightier than the Sword for U.S. Foreign Policy – OilPrice
- US Home Prices Back at Peaks in Some Areas – WSJ
- LPS: House Price Index increased 0.1% in October, Up 8.8% year-over-year – Calculated Risk
- Is the labor participation rate set for another drop?– Macroblog
- Brazil struggles to keep peace in favelas – Aljazeera
Other/Interesting
- Raw: Erupting Volcano Caught on Camera – AP
- I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on – Guardian
- Here’s Why Microsoft Is Worried About Google Chromebooks – Forbes
- Cisco “deeply concerned” over NSA backdoor claims – Gigaom
- Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins by carefully chewing and passing them around – Independent UK
- The Wolf of Wall Street criticised for ‘glorifying psychopathic behaviour’ – Guardian