Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Robotization Without Taxation? – Project Syndicate
- Cyclical forces in the global trade slowdown – Vox
- Economic growth and reductions in carbon emissions – Vox
- Is Bank Lending A Concern? – Economist’s View
Americas:
- Americans’ Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last Year – Five Thirty Eight
- Death rates for uneducated white Americans rise – FT
- Nearly Half Of U.S. Births Are Covered By Medicaid, Study Finds – Knh
- The Republican Party is dying in Hawaii – The Outline
- Kochs pledge millions to GOPers in 2018 — if they vote no on health care bill – CNN
- Does Manufacturing Have the Largest Employment “Multiplier” for the Domestic Economy? – PIIE
- U.S. investors fight to preserve SEC rule on CEO pay ratio – Reuters
- Trump the Destroyer – Project Syndicate
- Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps – Counter Punch
- The Trump Presidency Is Already a Joke – Vanity Fair
- Brazil Meat Exports Plunge 99.9% as More Countries Add Curbs – Bloomberg
Europe:
- Trump’s son criticizes London mayor after attack – CNN
- For Tourists Caught in London Bedlam, Hours of Waiting and Wondering – WSJ
- Bravery and simple humanity have shown Westminster at its best – The Guardian
- Manafort’s plan to ’greatly benefit the Putin Government’ – AP
- Erdogan warns Europeans ’will not walk safely’ if attitude persists, as row carries on – Reuters
- UK-based airlines told to move to Europe after Brexit or lose major routes – The Guardian
Asia:
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- U.S. declines to sign letter criticizing China on human rights – NY Daily News
- Debt piles add to risk for China’s property groups – FT
- China’s Love Affair With Leverage Is Tricky to Break – Bloomberg
- U.S. Preparing Cases Linking North Korea to Theft at N.Y. Fed – WSJ
- China Bets on Sensitive U.S. Start-Ups, Worrying the Pentagon – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Baby Boomers Happy For Nothing To Be Done About Climate Change Until After They Die – Betoota Advocate
- What’s in the Turnbull government’s new wave of austerity measures – Canberra Times
- How the collapse in full-time work for men is fuelling record underemployment | Greg Jericho – The Guardian
- Gas Generators hold South Australia consumers to ransom – Renew Economy
- Barnaby: Decentralisation is core business, and there will be more of it – Canberra Times
- George Brandis, Asio and the battle to control Australia’s telecommunications – The Guardian
- Peter Martin: How Turnbull can kill stamp duty and produce a budget to remember – The SMH
- Piracy crackdown: Website blocking to get a lot quicker, cheaper – Computer World
- Six graphs that explain Australia’s retail carnage – The SMH
- Government introduces bill for Glencore to continue alleged illegal mining, QCoal says – ABC
- Turnbull minister invokes penalty rates to defend travel allowance – The SMH
- Peter Dutton backs voluntary postal plebiscite on marriage equality – The Guardian
- Company ‘digitally transforming’ Centrelink also led $800 million Tax Office bungle – The SMH
- ‘Not a hypothetical’: Shorten slams PM over changes to race hate laws – SBS
- Turnbull assures voters welfare cuts will only hurt the needy – SBS Satire
- Maori Party gives National support it needs to make RMA changes – Interest.co.nz
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Economists still see interest rate rises next year – Interest.co.nz