Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Has the Dow Hit 20000 Yet? – WSJ
- The Dow’s Near 20000: What Should You Do Now? – WSJ
- Basic income or fair wage? – lemonde
- Global Deals That Made Exxon’s CEO Now Pose Big Test – WSJ
- Neoliberalism turned our world into a business. And there are two big winners – The Guardian
Americas:
- Voters Agree Trump’s Business Interests Will Affect His Governing – Morning Consult
- White males dominate Trump’s top cabinet posts – CNN
- The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America – The Atlantic
- Department of Energy Tells Trump to Go Screw Himself – Gizmodo
- A College Comes With a Side of Economic Stimulus – Bloomberg
- What Kills Americans Varies Widely by Region – WSJ
- Coal Is Dying–Coal Country Doesn’t Have To: Creating The Post-Coal Economy In Appalachia – factcoexist
- Venezuela Won’t Exchange All Bank Notes in Currency Swap – Bloomberg
- Venezuela’s Mysterious Stock Inflow Is Leaving Traders Perplexed – Bloomberg
- 75 charts every Canadian should watch in 2017 – macleans
Europe:
- Battle Over Aleppo Is Over, Russia Says, as Evacuation Deal Reached – NY Times
- Brexit endangers U.S.-UK trade as some U.S. firms could move: report – Reuters
- How Russia Wins an Election – Politico
- UK productivity back at pre-crash level, but lagging behind G7 – The Guardian
- How I Learned to Love Putin – WSJ
- IMF’s Lagarde grilled over ’punch in the gut’ payout to French tycoon – Reuters
- Brexit means cheaper food for Britons – The Times
- Mikhail Gorbachev: The man who lost an empire – BBC
- U.K. Inflation Accelerates to Highest in More Than Two Years – Bloomberg
- Merkel’s Party Says Putin Would Like to See Her Fall in 2017 – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Hot Money: The True Meaning of China’s Capital Controls – cigionline
- Why China Can’t Lure Tech Talent – Bloomberg
- When Tyranny Takes Hold – New Yorker
- Trump says China is not a market economy. That’s a big deal. – Washington Post
- China’s Stocks, Bonds, Yuan Slump in Unison on Liquidity Concern – Bloomberg
- China’s Banks Are Hiding More Than $2 Trillion in Loans – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Tony Abbott slams pensions for people with ‘bad backs, a bit of depression’ – Canberra Times
- Australia’s word of the year is ‘democracy sausage’ – ABC
- Annual cost of NBN to rise to $2.1bn by 2017, says budget office – The Guardian
- Malcolm Turnbull’s approval rating at lowest point since becoming prime minister – The Guardian
- Scott Morrison extols virtues of ‘good debt’ in face of threat to credit rating – The Guardian
- Queensland’s largest solar farm plugs into the grid a month early – The Guardian
- Leaked scoping study on privatisation of NSW’s land titles registry offers clues – The SMH
- Electricity bills to rise by $40 from mid next year, Australian Energy Market Commission says – ABC
- Australian credit rating: ‘Reasonably high’ chance AAA will be lost pre-Christmas – ABC
- Immigration boss Michael Pezzullo flies to America to sell refugee deal to Donald Trump officials – The SMH
- Fortress Parliament: our elected representatives won. We are no longer above them: Peter Martin – Canberra Times
- Great Barrier Reef not likely to survive if warming trend continues – The Guardian
- Aside from the culture, environment and cost, is Adani a good investment? – The SMH
- We need to talk about Waleed – The Spectator
- NAPLAN results show it is time to hand trust back to teachers – ABC
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High housing costs and low wages behind wave of strikes – Interest.co.nz
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Housing our ‘largest problem’ – Interest.co.nz
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