Global Macro / Markets / Investment:
- A Pessimists Guide to the world in 2016: Bloomberg
- Debt free money and banana republics: Randy Wray at Naked Capitalism
- The worlds biggest wave of migration since WW2: WorldIn (is the next wave ecological?)
- Carbon pricing was right over 25 years ago – The Economist from 1989
- Fed tipped to raise again in March 2016: FT
Americas:
- What happens when foreign leaders endorse US presidential hopefuls: WP (Oh Trump…)
- Who’s better for stocks? Democrats or Republicans? BI (the former, funnily enough)
- Democrat front runner Sanders is no friend of Wall Street: Bloomberg (good! He is the Chosen One)
- While the second Clinton gets nearly 10% of her financing from Wall Street, not 3%: IBT (stretching the truth is a Clinton legacy…)
- Judge blocks BHP/Vale assets following Brazilian dam collapse: BBC
- Hate crimes against Muslims tripled since Paris attacks: IBT
- Congress wants to review dietary guidelines: WP (how about remove sugar subsidys and ban HFCS?)
Europe:
- Greece’s other deficit: Project Syndicate
- But why you no buy their bonds? Up 22% this year: Bloomberg
- German banks want ECB to follow the Fed and raise rates: Bloomberg (but still want bailouts)
Asia:
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- For China’s struggling economy, 2016 maybe worse than 2015: SCMP
- USN flexes muscles again in Asia – “don’t misunderestimate us”: The Diplomat
- Yuan poised for record weakening run – FT
Local:
- Megabank on the hard sell to restore trust: AFR (how about stop being Megabank? and MegaSuper and MegaMortgageSellers)
- Sydney real estate market “slowing”: AFR (top end at least)
- Domainfax still has property section dominating its “news” pages. I don’t read The Smage so seeing this front page again was shocking. At least at the The Oz’n’chips, the “opinion” pieces are hidden a bit. Anyway, back to local links:
- Wait, no. The Oz’n’chips headlines are all about ISIS, death cults and bomb threats. In comparison to the 26,000 people killed by climate related disasters this year, isn’t this a bit over the top? It’s like they’re being told to report this sideline stuff…back to links
- Hep C drugs to be made available under Fed PBS: The Age (good news, even made frontpage of Worldnews reddit!)
Other:
- Star Wars smashes records on opening days around world: IBTimes (Oh Disney…)
- As The Economist breaks down how Disney is buying the entertainment future
- Bloomberg’s top posts of the year: Bloomberg (we’ll go through ours soon for NY reading)
- Why does Star War’s exist anyway? WP (warning Spoilers in that article)