Macro Markets, Economics & Investing
- Swedens six hour workday runs into trouble – Bloomberg (it works, but its expensive of course)
- America First means global conflict next, Roubini – ProjectSyndicate (hmmm…or Putin in power for another eight years)
- What bitcoin’s rising status says about our world – Bloomberg
Asia
- Japan defends Toyota after Trump broadside over Mexican plant – Reuters
- Beijing pollution: Police force to combat toxic smog – A new team of environmental police will try to reduce hazardous levels of toxic smog engulfing Beijing, the city’s acting mayor has said. – BBC
- In 2015, China set the world record for most solar power capacity installed in one year, adding enough solar panels to cover one and a half football pitches every hour. In 2016, the country smashed that record, doubling installations to three football pitches per hour. – Greenpeace
Europe/Middle East
- Trump seeks ‘good relationship’ with Russia, slams critics as ‘stupid people,’ ‘fools’ – Politico
- German police quash Breitbart story of mob setting fire to Dortmund church – Guardian
- Israel Cuts it’s annual $6 Million dues to UN Over Settlement Vote – Voanews (dummy sales must be up in Tel Aviv)
- Germany’s Gabriel says EU break-up no longer unthinkable – Reuters
- US tanks arrive in Germany to help Nato defences – BBC
Americas
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- Ethics office: Trump nominees still not properly vetted – CNN
- Warren: No confirmation hearings until ethics concerns addressed – The Hill
- John Dean: The Gutless Press is Still Giving Trump a Free Pass – Newsweek
- US Ethics Office ‘have lost contact’ with Donald Trump’s transition team – Independent (no phone reception at Swamp HQ?)
- British spies ‘tipped off the CIA’ about Russian hacking to influence the US election after thwarting a similar attack targeting the 2015 general election – DailyMail
- At least six people have died and 1,500 have been arrested during days of protests in Mexico against a rise in the price of petrol. – BBC
- Trump says Mexico would repay U.S. funds spent on border wall – Reuters (delusion is not a river in Mexico!)
Terra Nullus
- Amazon kills US retail enroute to Australia – AFR
- Lihir could yet be a million ounce mine – AFR
- Ley apologies for playing the political property portfolio game, will pay back a pittance – The Age
- Dumped One Nation candidate hits back at party – The Age (fish and chips flying everywhere!)
- How Centerlink unleashed a weapon of math destruction – The Age (hard to tell if incompetence is at top of bureaucracy or in ministers hands..a little from Column A, a little from Column B?)
Other:
- Teenage criminals should be fitted with wifi jammers rather than going to prison, top cop suggests – Telegraph (that’s genius! or only have their iPods play classical music?)
- Nashville to build first-of-its-kind health center for mentally ill arrestees – Wate
- Donald Trump’s glorious victory for anti-intellectualism: “Drain the swamp” just meant the eggheads – Salon
- A Really Big Crack In An Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Got Bigger – NPR
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