Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Oil Companies Draw on Creative Financing to Stay Afloat After Prices Tumble – Bloomberg
- The Treasury Market’s Legendary Liquidity Has Been Drying Up – Bloomberg
- Warren Buffett: Know when to hold ’em – Financial Times
North America:
- As Regulators Focus on Culture, Wall Street Struggles to Define It – Wall Street Journal
- Stephen Schwarzman Has a Warning for Wall Street’s Entrepreneurs – New York Times
- Inflation Reading Furthest Away From Fed Target Since 2009 – Wall Street Journal
- Why The Fed Remains “Patient” – Brookings
- How Americans Are Spending Their Windfall From Cheap Gas – Bloomberg
- David Rosenberg: What US$50 oil really means for Canada’s economy – Financial Post
- For Many U.S. Families, Financial Disaster Is Just One Setback Away – Wall Street Journal
- Benefits of Infrastructure Spending Not So Clear-Cut, Economists Say – Wall Street Journal
Europe:
- Danish borrowing costs plummet after debt sale halt – Financial Times
- Greece and the euro area need a deal within days, not months – Bruegel
- Opinion: It’s Time To Compromise on Greece – Der Spiegel
- Greece’s master of game theory is leading his country to abject disaster – The Telegraph
- What’s Going On with the ECB and Greece? – Medium.com
- Yanis Varoufakis: Greek euro deal ’within hours or days’ – Brightcove
Asia:
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- China is Turning Fecal Sludge Into ‘Black Gold’ – Bloomberg
- Austerity bites into China’s new year perks – Financial Times
- Q&A: Roderick MacFarquhar on Xi Jinping’s High-Risk Campaign to Save the Communist Party – New York Times
Local:
- RBA has no clear course on rates – The AFR
- RBA urged to lift confidence with rate cut – The AFR
- AUD hangs on RBA outcome – The AFR
- Tony Abbott and business to lock horns over tax – The AFR
- Crowdfunding first Murray recommendation to get tick – The AFR
- Chinese property developer tips more than $850k into Labor coffers – The AFR
- Rise in food exports may leave shoppers sour – The AFR
- ALP pose a risk to real estate development – The AFR
- Abbott vows to fight on – The Australian
- Abbott speech too focused on short-term political survival – The Australian
- Barnett still confident of GST change – The Australian
- Business presses Abbott on PPL levy – The Australian
- Plan to end local ships’ advantages – The Australian
- China to lift investment in Australia – The Australian
- Abbott moves to head-off critics – Canberra Times
- Gillard’s jab at Abbott – The Age
- The brutal politics of privatisation – Canberra Times
- D&B: Businesses optimistic on employment – Canberra Times
- Abbott is circling the wagons and going nowhere – The Guardian
- Aussies will lose out under short-term mobility visas – The Guardian
- The Chinese donors propping-up Labor – Business Spectator
- The curious clamour for a rate cut – Business Spectator
- Rate cut fever misplaced – The Drum
Other:
- Battle of the Economics Bloggers – Bloomberg View