Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Automation will make countries with a youth bulge more volatile – Global Risk Insights
- Goldman’s Blankfein on Markets: ‘Things Have Been Going Up for Too Long’ – WSJ
- Ray Dalio: How to build a company where the best ideas win – TED
- Is Blockchain Ready for Fiat? Why Banks See Big Promise in Crypto Cash – Coin Desk
- We need to stop pretending that the autonomous car is imminent – Recode
Americas:
- The debt trap: how the student loan industry betrays young Americans – The Guardian
- GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats – Politico
- Vice Chair Stanley Fischer stepping down from Fed, citing ’personal reasons’ – CNBC
- Trump’s Early Christmas Gift to Democrats – The Atlantic
- America’s Changing Religious Identity – PRRI
- Trump’s day as a Democratic president – Axios
- How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling – New Yorker
- How Local Housing Regulations Smother the U.S. Economy – NY Times
- Employment: Preliminary annual benchmark revision shows upward adjustment of 95,000 jobs – Calculated Risk
- Brazil Central Bank Cuts Selic Rate to 8.25% – WSJ
- Bank of Canada increases overnight rate target to 1 per cent – B of C
Europe:
- EU Court Backs Intel’s Appeal of 2009 Fine, in Blow to Regulator – WSJ
- New leak of Brexit papers reveals fissures between Britain and EU – The Guardian
- Hackers lie in wait after penetrating US and Europe power grid networks – Ars Technica
- Fewer than 10 UK-based banks have asked for EU licence as Brexit looms -sources – Reuters
Asia:
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- Trump Is Considering the Worst Possible Response to the North Korean Threat – Foreign Policy
- Behind North Korea’s Nuclear Advance: Scientists Who Bring Technology Home – WSJ
- China Is Obsessed With Livestreaming and the Censors Are Racing to Keep Up – Bloomberg
- Is China’s Economy Growing as Fast as China’s GDP? – Carnegie Endowment
- Thomas Piketty on the Russian kleptocracy – Axios
Trans-Tasman:
- Rod Culleton brings private prosecution against George Brandis in Canberra court – Canberra Times
- High Court dismisses challenge, so Australia is off to the (postal) polls on same-sex marriage – The Conversation
- AGL digs in on coal plant closure as Turnbull government warns of ‘colossal failure’ – Brisbane Times
- Why doesn’t Australia have a huge difference in regional accents like other countries? – Pursuit
- This Is The Inside Story Of The Government’s Confused Response To Medicare Cards On The Darkweb – BuzzFeed
- Dick Smith joins lower immigration party – Nine News
- Grenfell-style flammable cladding should be banned in Australia, senate committee says, but Coalition disagrees – ABC
- Household incomes dismal, wages flat and spending props up the economy. What could possibly go wrong? – ABC
- Much of the data used to justify the welfare card is flawed | Eva Cox | Opinion – The Guardian
- Welfare drug tests: Government senators accused of ignoring medical evidence – ABC
- Govt pushes first home buyer super scheme – SBS
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Labour could form govt with Greens, Maori – poll – Interest.co.nz
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