Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Generation X: Don’t slack on your retirement – MarketWatch
- Collaboration in financial economics, visualized – WEF
- Central Banks “Took Over” Markets In 2009; In December The “Unwind” Begins – Zero Hedge
- The Real Reason Traders Lose Money – Trader Feed
- Preparing adult workers for the artificial intelligence revolution – Irpp
- When Solar Panels Became Job Killers – NY Times
- Fiscal over monetary policy? – Macro Mania
Americas:
- Trump’s White House Is a Family Business. That’s Not a Bad Thing. – Politico
- Trump has visited a Trump-branded property every 2.8 days of his presidency – Washington Post
- How Republicans learned to love Obama – Politico
- Inside the failed secret mission to save the filibuster – Politico
- Gov. Brown declares California drought emergency is over – LA Times
- U.S. Tax Cuts Could Drive Key Buyers Away From Muni-Bond Market – Bloomberg
- The Trump administration is ill-prepared for a global pandemic – Washington Post
- What’s Become of the American Dream? – WSJ
Europe:
- Italy Bans Uber – Fortune
- UK’s Johnson cancels Moscow visit after Syria gas attack – Reuters
- Boris Johnson Nixes Moscow Trip, Russia Calls Decision `Absurd’ – Bloomberg
- Europe Should Stick to Rules on Bank Rescues, ECB’s Mersch Says – Bloomberg
- And suddenly, peaceful Stockholm plunges into horror – France
- Italian Government to Revise Privatization Target Downward – Bloomberg
- Italy to confirm GDP forecast, revive privatisations in new plan – Reuters
- Europe admits G20 economies will miss extra growth target – Reuters
Asia:
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- U.S. Navy strike group to move toward Korean peninsula: U.S. official – Reuters
- US moves Navy strike group towards the Korean Peninsula – Raw Story
- Trump’s options for North Korea include placing nukes in South Korea – NBC
- What Chinese News Reports Tell Us About Beijing’s View of Trump – NY Times
- Chinese state media cheer Xi-Trump meeting, say confrontation not inevitable – Reuters
- Xi, Trump set constructive tone for China-U.S. relationship: FM – Xinhua
- Watch to see if Kim Jong-Un goes into hiding after Syria strike – Fox
- Indian girl found in jungle was not living with monkeys, officials say – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- Manus refugees not accepted by US to remain on PNG island, Dutton says – ABC
- Centrelink Robo-Debts are Killing People. Make Them Stop. – Medium
- Centrelink leaks more private data – The Saturday Paper
- How to slash electricity prices … in just five minutes – Renew Economy
- Melting in the sun: How fossil fuel generators failed in summer heat-wave – Renew Economy
- Climate change: three of Australia’s big four banks reviewing exposure to fossil fuels – The Guardian
- ‘Disaster alley’: Cyclone Debbie shows how climate change will test Australia’s military – The SMH
- Budget measures to encourage migrants out of capital cities – The SMH
- Housing correction ‘won’t be orderly’ – The AFR
- There’s no housing bubble – unless you’re in Sydney or Melbourne – The SMH
- The stampede of wind farm complaints that never happened – The Conversation
- Labor demands Malcolm Turnbull explain negative gearing comments – ABC
- Scott Morrison tries to deceive the bankers, the voters and himself – Independent Australia
- Abbott defends 2014 budget: ‘We would be living within our means’ – The Guardian
- Darwin is the safest place to go if Australia is invaded – News.com.au
- A Labour/Green/NZF/Mana govt? – Interest.co.nz
- Home Truths: A tale of three cities – Interest.co.nz
- Labour and the Greens go ‘National Lite’ on fiscal policy – Interest.co.nz
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