Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- What’s Speculating? What’s Investing? Some of the Wisest Investors Weigh In – WSJ
- Let’s Be Honest: Are You an Investor or a Speculator? – WSJ
- Energy Improves, Industrials Sink S&P 500 Q4 Earnings Growth – factset
- Markets are on a ’sugar high,’ billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry says – CNBC
- Stocks close at all-time highs, post best week since election – CNBC
- Gold ‘Getting Hit From All Directions’ as Investors Flee Funds – Bloomberg
- Thank one group of companies for the stock market’s climb to record highs – CNBC
- The Bond Market Doesn’t Believe Draghi – Bloomberg
- Market indicator hits extreme levels last seen before plunges in 1929, 2000 and 2008 – CNBC
Americas:
- Automation Is the Greatest Threat to the American Worker, Not Outsourcing – Futurism
- Warren Buffett Says Donald Trump Won’t Derail the Economy – Fortune
- Trump blasts early voting: ‘Many things can go wrong’ – Politico
- Trump’s pick for White House counsel is wrong for the job – Washington Post
- Giuliani pulls name from contention for secretary of state – Politico
- Mainstream media puts out the call for pro-Trump columnists – Washington Post
- Trump team memo on climate change alarms Energy Department staff – Reuters
- Goldman Sachs to Extend Its Reach in Trump Administration – NY Times
- Trump Makes America Goldman’s Again! – The Intercept
- Heroin now kills more people than guns with 50,000 fatal overdoses – Mail Online
- Trump packs trade team with veterans of steel wars with China – Reuters
- Biden Hails Trudeau, Merkel as Last Liberal Leaders Standing – Bloomberg
- The Trump White House is going to be chock full of weird rich people – The Week
- Trump’s Presidency Is Shaping Up to Be an American Tragedy – Rolling Stone
- Surprise! Obamacare Repeal Includes A Stealth Tax Cut For Top Earners – Talking Points Memo
- Nearly 5 Million U.S. Jobs Depend on Trade With Mexico – The Atlantic
Europe:
- The Belgian government’s Brexit negotiating strategy – VOX
- Russian MP hopes ‘our beloved Mr Trump’ will end doping investigation – The Guardian
- Netherlands trial: Geert Wilders guilty of incitement – BBC
- Dutch Court: Populist Lawmaker Wilders Guilty of Hate Speech – Bloomberg
- Glencore Rosneft Deal Reopens Battle for Russian Commodities – Bloomberg
- ECB contemplated bolder stimulus before compromise – sources – Reuters
- Banks want to be subject to EU laws for five years in post-Brexit deal – Reuters
- What if you could start all over again? The European cities where business founders would go – WEF
- Draghi Says Italy Must Address Weaknesses No Matter What Happens – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- India’s cash bonfire is too much, too soon – FT
- China to launch direct yuan trading with seven currencies – Reuters
- Beyond Calm Chinese GDP Numbers, Volatility Runs Deep: BofAML – Bloomberg
- EU upsets China with new steel price investigation – Reuters
- China universities must become Communist party ’strongholds’, says Xi Jinping – The Guardian
- South Korean parliament votes overwhelmingly to impeach President Park – Reuters
- Serving the people: China has gained hugely from globalisation – The Economist
- Japan nearly doubles Fukushima disaster-related cost to $188 billion – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- The world’s refugee crisis knows no more sinister exercise in cruelty than Australia’s island prisons. – NY Times
- ‘She doesn’t get what we do’: has ABC boss Michelle Guthrie got the insiders on her side? – The Guardian
- The only reason Malcolm Turnbull still has his job – The SMH
- South Australia-made silicon energy storage system “ready to close grid gap” – pv-magazine
- Falling school standards are taking a toll on Australia’s wellbeing – The SMH
- Queensland woman ordered to pay legal costs after failed Facebook racial vilification case – The ABC
- Revealed: Senator Nick Xenophon, the staffer and the national security leak – The Age
- How Chinese Brands Are Faring In Australia – Car Advice
- Corporate taxes not paid by more than a third of large companies – ABC
- How life for milk’s market darling turned sour in China – The Age
- 100% renewable grid not just feasible, but “reliable, robust and stable” – Renew Economy
- Seven reasons why lavishing a $1 billion subsidy on Adani is a truly inane idea – Independent Australia
- Inside the downfall of iiNet Sydney – Gizmodo
- Cory Bernardi and George Christensen to raise funds for anti-Islam group – The Guardian
- How an administrative oversight in China sent Aussie miners skyrocketing – The SMH
- We won’t follow Trump’s lead, Turnbull vows – Canberra Times
- Melbourne’s house prices are too high … just ask CEOs – The Age
- Quality of Victoria’s houses so bad they could ‘cook’ people inside, experts warn – Domain
- PM, Treasurer ‘falter on growth’ – The Australian
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Why are we wedded to this breakneck rate of immigration growth? – Interest.co.nz
- John Key: the quiet achiever – Interest.co.nz
- John Key: quite an underachiever – Interest.co.nz