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Global Macro/Markets/Commodities
- What gold does in a currency crisis, euro edition – Zero Hedge
- From Davos, a new framework is needed – FT
- Euro tumbles to 11 year low post QE against all majors – FT
- Bill Gates’ annual letter – Gates News (an uplifting read)
- This Chart Shows Why the Oil Bust Will Last – Wolf Richter
- A Few Savvy Investors Had Swiss Central Bank Figured Out -WSJ
- When hedge funds don’t hedge – Pragcap
- How Economists Came to Dominate the Conversation – NYT
- Martin Wolf on why trade imbalances matter – FT
Asia/China
- Kuroda says BOJ may explore more options for easing in Japan – Bloomberg (since its worked so far…)
- Moody’s says Chinese shadow banking system slowing down – GlobalTimes
- China January factory growth stalls, deflation pressures build, bad debt rises – Reuters
- Thailand’s Yingluck charged and impeached – Financial Times
- Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah dies – BBC.
- Saudi King Abdullah’s death sets up complex succession process – WSJ
- New Saudi king seen holding line on OPEC policy to keep oil output high – Reuters
- Yemen crisis: President resigns as rebels tighten hold – BBC
- U.S. Fears Chaos as Government of Yemen Falls – New York Times
- India is one foreign market at new highs. – Allstarcharts
- Chinese Chairman of Credit Suisse Venture Is Missing – Bloomberg
- Rogoff: Chinese Economy Is Biggest Risk in 2015 – WSJ
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Europe/UK
- Alexis Tsipras: Greece’s radical or realist? – FT
- We are going to destroy the Greek oligarchy system’ – Channel 4
- European sovereign bond yields at record lows post ECB QE – Business Insider
- Syriza’s take on the ECB QE program as it leads the polls in Greece – The Economist
- And the Greece election in graphic detail – The Economist
- Greece likely to need another bailout extension -official – Reuters
- Russian blogger gets an additional jail term – Radio Free Europe (well at least in QLD you only get sued, not hit with a baseball bat)
- As signs emerge the Ukraine War is starting a new offensive – Stripes
- One last gasp for the ‘one-size-fits-all’ euro – Telegraph
- European sovereign debt hypocrisy – FT Alphaville
- 7 Keys to Understanding the Greek Elections – HuffingtonPost
- ECB’s Risk-Sharing Riddle for Markets – WSJ
- How Super Was Mario? (Wonkish) – NYT
Americas/United States
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- McDonald’s quarterly sales down 7% – Reuters (boo hoo)
- US banks resign themselves to lower yields for longer (boo hoo you too – what a hard gig!)
- Canadian inflations tapers down to 1.5% – Bloomberg
- US producers feel oil price pinch sharpest – Financial Times
- Dimon, Blankfein Getting Bigger Cash Bonuses Even While U.S. Bank Rally Fizzles – Bloomie
- US flash PMI signals weakest manufacturing expansion for a year – Markit
Australia/NZ:
- Anti-vax campaigner can’t find any rooms/halls to book for her tour – The Guardian (thank Dog for that)
- Abbotts trust deficit disaster is paralysing his government – Guardian
- Qld democracy eroded to core by lobbyists – Guardian (ironic that someone who bought his way into parliament agrees with this)
- WorkChoices 2.0 unions to fight Abbott’s cut of penalty rates – Fairfax
- Murdoch press rattles the bushes to find more Jihadists – The Australian (fine, its a threat – but front page and center threat? No.)
- Palmer’s Mineralogy ‘desperate for cash’ says Citic PacifiC – AFR
- No leadership fire, but Abbott adds more smoke – AFR
- QLD Voters turn on LNP in key seats – the OZ
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Science/Technology/Other
- Killer algae making HK water glow – Wash Post
- What causes chronic fatigue syndrome? – The Economist (possibly moderating comments online….)
- Global refugee crisis biggest ever faced – Project Syndicate (hey, Tony stopped the boats – who TF cares???)
- Building a caring economy – Project Syndicate
- Major breakthrough in reading ancient scrolls – Science Daily
- “American Sniper” is almost too dumb to criticize – Matt Taibi at Rolling Stone (great read, bad movie, wrong subject to do a biopic on Mr Eastwood)
- The new cheap and nasty Indian (no not that one) Harley Davidson Street 500 – Drive (meh. I’d rather see their new electric bike, the Livewire)
Some deeper thinking than just some flag waving this weekend:
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