Asia
- Li says China to open currency market to central banks – WaPo
- Why Capital Is Fleeing China: The Crushing Costs of Systemic Corruption – Econintersect
- Understanding China’s Eurasian Pivot – The Diplomat
- China’s Tencent develops a robot journalist to write news stories – China people
Europe
- Remarks by European Commission President Juncker on the State of the Union – CFR
- Berlin fights Brussels integration push – FT
- Greece to lift capital controls for those who bring money back to banks – Keep Talking Greece
- Why Catalonia’s bid for independence is Europe’s next headache – Telegraph
- Putin and Berlusconi Take Their Bromance to Crimea – Foreign Policy
United States
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- The DOJ Is Finally Conceding It Prosecutes Corporate Crime All Wrong – Bloomie
- KPMG offshore ‘sham’ deceived tax authorities, CRA alleges – CBC
- A crisis in student loans? How changes in the characteristics of borrowers and in the institutions they attended contributed to rising loan defaults – Brookings
- Scare Headlines Exaggerated The U.S. Crime Wave – 538
- Kenneth Rogoff Slams One of the Most Popular Theories for What the Fed Should Do Next – Bloomie
- Touting morality, billionaire Texas brothers top 2016 donor list – Reuters
Americas
- As Boom Fades, Brazil Asks How Economic Sizzle Turned to Fizzle – NYT
- Brazil downgrade triggers prospect of further turmoil for EMs – FT
Home of the boom .. mic
- ‘There’s a boom up there’: 6 times pollies were caught out by a mic – ABC
- ‘Waves are battering my home’: Marshall Islands Foreign Minister slams Peter Dutton after climate joke – SMH
- Tony Abbott under rising pressure as more MPs see leadership challenge as likely – SMH
- Australia’s crawling Internet speed signifies wider fiscal failure Bill Mitchell
- Farmers’ federation opposes changes to environmental laws, Senate hears – Guardian
- Astronomers resort to crowdfunding to save Australia’s Mopra Radio Telescope – ABC
- Tony Abbott hits phones as leadership talk heats up – AFR
- How Low Can Oil Go? Goldman Says $20 a Barrel Is a Possibility – Bloomie
- Hidden reason WestConnex runs near, not under Parramatta Road – SMH
- Japan deal lights path for Australian banks towards $14 trillion – Business Day
- Are we getting paid too much? -Business Day
Global Macro/Markets
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- Citi shared central bank info with clients – ex trader Reuters
- When rates rise – FT
- Fed Liftoff Has Futures and Economists at Odds for Next Week – Bloomie
- G20 Finance Ministers focus on private financing of infrastructure – Triple Crisis
- Emerging-Market Currencies: Things Look to Get Worse – WSJ
- How China is raining on Glencore’s parade – BBC
…and furthermore…
- Elon Musk reveals plan to drop thermonuclear weapons on Mars to prepare planet for humans – Independent
- Baby’s Cells Can Manipulate Mom’s Body for Decades – Smithsonian
- Economists vs. Economics – Project Syndicate
- The End of G.D.P.? – The New Yorker
- Turn a two-way mirror into an information display – Flowing data
- Big Win for Beekeepers as Court Voids Insecticide – NYT
- The Inclusive Road to Growth – Project Syndicate
- Google pushes into mobile payment with Android Pay launch in US – AFR
- Google and Twitter Team Up to Offer Their Own ’Instant Articles’ — With a Twist – Re/code
- Baby Shortage: The Demographic Cost of Unemployment – Economy
- Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department – NYT
- 14 Years After 9/11, the War on Terror Is Accomplishing Everything bin Laden Hoped It Would – The Nation