Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The next Davos forum will be co-chaired by seven women—and zero men – Quartz
- The civil war in crypto-currency – Bloomberg
- Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work – YouTube
- Forget Vanguard, Insurers Now Have Their Own ETFs to Sell You – Bloomberg
- IPOs Roar Back World-Wide, With Asia Driving the Boom – WSJ
Americas:
- Help Us Spot Loopholes in the Tax Plans – NY Times
- Bill Clinton: A Reckoning – The Atlantic
- Historical Income Tables: Households – Census.gov
- Amazon to regulators: We won’t use state licenses to sell prescription drugs – CNBC
- Russia’s Election Meddling Was Another U.S. Intelligence Failure – New Yorker
- Trump choosing white men as judges, highest rate in decades – AP
- The gaping US trade gap: A sign of weakness? Not necessarily – Seattle Times
- More than 400 millionaires tell Congress: Don’t cut our taxes – Washington Post
- Here’s Where the GOP Tax Plan Stands Right Now – Bloomberg
Europe:
- France eyes setting age for sexual consent; 13 suggested – Boston Globe
- Parliament to get final vote on Brexit deal – BBC
- The EU’s hand is weaker than it claims – Capx
- Why Berlin is like a teenager: European capitals, and their effect on GDP per capita – City Metric
- U.K. Inflation Data May See Carney Reaching for His Pen: Chart – Bloomberg
- Rethinking Brexit, via Kilkenny & Oxford – Philosophy of Money
- IMF Says Europe’s Recovery Is Spilling Over to Rest of World – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- The World Needs to Prepare for ‘Peaked China’ – The American Conservative
- North Korean Shot as He Apparently Defects Across DMZ – WSJ
- North Korean Soldier Shot by Own Troops as He Defects to the South – NY Times
- Trump personally asked Xi Jinping to help resolve case of UCLA basketball players arrested in China – Washington Post
- Hong Kong Surpasses Dot-Com Boom With Record Technology IPO Haul – Bloomberg
- Japan’s MUFG hires 180 staff in London in Europe expansion drive – Reuters
- South Korea rejected Japan involvement in joint US military drills- Nikkei Asian Review – Nikkei
- Tony Blair and Europe: shattering the Ming vase – Prospect
Trans-Tasman:
- Jacqui Lambie to resign over dual citizenship – ABC
- Same-sex marriage bill put forward by James Paterson is a ‘licence to discriminate’, Penny Wong says – ABC
- Plan to drug test welfare recipients in doubt after NXT vow to oppose it – The Guardian
- Mike Baird earns $900,000 in first five months at NAB – The Guardian
- Turnbull rejects calls for right to discriminate – The Guardian
- Parliament To Be Held In Circus Tent For Remainder Of Year – The Shovel
- Euthanasia: Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill likely to pass with amendments – ABC
- Corporate lobby favoured while charities SLAPPED for advocacy – Michael West
- Demand for people skills is growing faster than demand for STEM skills – The Conversation
- One Nation hands out LNP vote cards in Queensland – 9News
- Chinese ice is flooding the Australian market: AFP – The SMH
- A recent ABC poll was (almost) rigged by someone at the ABS — here’s how – ABC
- Former NBN chief rejects German telco boss claims that all-fibre was ‘too ambitious’ – The New Daily
- Artificial intelligence law firm aims to roll out in remote, low socio-economic communities – ABC
- Is the Parliament in chaos? Here’s how the government’s numbers look – The Age
- iPad generation’s fingers not ready to write, teachers say – ABC
- NBN: How to sell a dog’s breakfast – Innovation Aus
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Auckland’s apartment market could be tested next year – Interest.co.nz
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Releasing the handbrake on housing – Interest.co.nz
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