Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Good Old Days of the Gold Standard? Not Really, Historians Say – NY Times
- Hedge Funds Brace for Redemptions as Losses Engulf Marquee Firms – Bloomberg
- Will the U.S. Stock Market Rally Last Through December? – Yahoo
- Oil down 3 percent on U.S. stock build; seen volatile before OPEC – Reuters
- As OPEC Meets, World Oil Traders See Prices Stagnating Into 2017 – Bloomberg
- The return of inflation could define capital markets in 2016 – FT
- Imagining a World Without Growth – NY Times
Americas:
- Yellen: The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy–December 2, 2015 – Federal Reserve
- Yellen: Fed Delay May Inadvertently Push Economy Into Recession – Bloomberg
- Why It’s Still Too Early for the Fed to Start Raising Interest Rates – WSJ
- Fed’s Lockhart: Case for December Rate Rise is ‘Compelling’ – WSJ
- Beige Book – December 2, 2015 – Federal Reserve
- Harvard’s Sick of Losing to Yale and Has a Plan to Fix Endowment – Bloomberg
- America the Indispensable – WSJ
- How an $84,000 drug got its price: ‘Let’s hold our position … whatever the headlines’ – Washington Post
- Some Families Earn Six Figures and Still Need Help With the Rent – WSJ
- “All You Americans Are Fired” – Buzz Feed
Europe:
- EU presses Greece over migrants, weighs Schengen threat – Reuters
- Mario Draghi Is About to Become the World’s Market Risk Manager – Bloomberg
- Inflation Stuck Near Zero Reinforces Draghi’s Push for Stimulus – Bloomberg
- November Euro area flash estimate: annual inflation stable at 0.1% – European Union
- Independent review of UK economic statistics: interim report – www.gov.uk
Asia:
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- Japan’s solution is to raise wages by 10% – FT
- What’s the difference between a yuan and a renminbi? – twimg.com
- China’s Economy Is Consuming One-Third More Steel Than It Needs – Bloomberg
- Why a poor Southern US city’s only hope was a Chinese company moving in – Washington Post
Local:
- Trillion dollar fossil fuel shift – Canberra Times
- GST to dominate agenda at COAG – Canberra Times
- Jump in exports hides a weak economy – Canberra Times
- Australia: the little economy that can – Canberra Times
- Rio Tinto’s Walsh urges Australia to look to Asia – Canberra Times
- How the states are going to tax you – Canberra Times
- Aussies, not what we think we are – The Age
- VET sector: A shyster get rich scheme – The Age
- Beyond boom: life in economy – The Australian
- Super must change for the better – The Australian
- Businesses don’t bet on uni ideas – The Australian
- ‘24/7 work culture not helping women’ – The Australian
- Regions ‘key to our prosperity’: think tank – The Australian
- Inside the super fund war – The AFR
- Tax deductions for interest on the chopping block – The AFR
- Parko: ‘It is very, very easy to damage our institutions’ – The AFR
- Economy cranking up but investment needs a boost – The AFR
- Electricity networks will need ‘up to $1 trillion of investment by 2050’ – ABC News
- World’s richest 10pc produce half of global carbon emissions: Oxfam – ABC News
- Where would we be without the floating Australian dollar? – ABC News
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