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Global Macro / Markets / Investment:
- Currency funds see worst year since 2011 as divergence collapses – Bloomberg
- 5 books that put some life in the dismal science of economics – BloombergView (we need a revolution in this “profession”)
- Alternative assets the ones to go to in 2016 as 2015 shows bonds, stocks underperforming – AFR (interesting read actually, not Australian article btw)
- Mapped: how a demographic time bomb will transform the global economy – Telegraph
Americas:
- Bernie Sanders campaign gets stronger and stronger, now the media have to get on board – WaPo
- What are President Obama’s new year resolutions? IBTimes (apart from coffee with Jerry Seinfeld – good episode actually!)
- After bad year in the US, gun violence victims debate if gun control is the answer – IBT (its partly the answer, its your culture that is the problem.
- US jobs growth clears course for Fed to raise interest rates again – Telegraph
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Europe:
- What will the UK do in 2016 – stay in the EU or go? BloombergView
- Collapse of the USSR is far more complicated than the myth of US winning the Cold War – AFR (lessons for Cold War 2.0 in this century?)
- On the trail of the wolf, Europe’s much maligned natural predator – Guardian (nice doggy)
- UK PM promises 40million pounds in flood defences as country reels from record downfall – BBC
- German governor calls for cap of 200,000 refugees per year – Stripes
- Is it a happy new year for Europe and the EU? Project Syndicate
Asia/Middle East:
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- How has China changed you? IBTimes (some funny responses there)
- Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of inciting terrorism – Reuters (in other news, the sky is blue. This meme is gaining traction, hopefully a substantive chance in the White House can bring about the end of the Saud Tyranny)
- As Iranian protestors storm Saudi embassy in Tehran following clerics execution – Stripes
- Does China really offer better medical care than the West? GlobalTimes
- China’s new mantra is to eliminate the housing glut – SCMP (so more iron ore then?)
- ISIS/Daesh is an enemy created, funded and armed by the US – ZeroHedge (hmm..has a ring of truth to it…)
- Factories pop up to meet demand of Vietnamese consumers – Nikkei.com
Local:
- Melbourne housing glut to worsen as off-the-plan buyers lose money fast – AFR
- More unrest in the Year of the Monkey, CEO’s need to take more risk long term – The Oz’n’Chips
- 2015 was in top three of hottest last five years, next 12 months will be hotter due to El Nino – The Oz’n’Chips
- How to save money for a home this year – DomainFax (don’t eat, don’t get health insurance, don’t get edumacated. And get a better job of course!)
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Other:
- Russia censors childrens book because too “beastly” – The Guardian (from the nation where its illegal to tell your children that gay people exist)
- Why religious education in school must teach the basis of all religions, showing none to be absolute and thus reducing extremism – Stewart Lee (great op-ed piece, applies to Australia as much as UK)
- An evangelical Christian writes why his community can’t be pro-life and pro-gun – Stripes (an excellent read – a non hypocritical Christian, which is rare these days)
- This is the fuel NASA needs to get to the other side of the solar system – WaPO
- 5 sci-fi novels for 2016 to make you forget “Star Wars” – LATimes
- Why the dream of the flying car hasn’t panned out – Washington Post (I still want one. The PAL-V from Netherlands is my pick)
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