Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Now You Can Invest in Bitcoin Without the Volatility, Apparently – Bloomberg
- The Future Of Banking Probably Isn’t Banking – ValueWalk
- Tesla Leads Surge in U.S. Asset-Backed Securities – Bloomberg
- Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries Including Ireland & Most Countries In Africa – Power Compare
- Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs – WSJ
- Bitcoin Mania Moves from Wall Street to Main Street – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Thanksgiving for Native Americans: Four Voices on a Complicated Holiday – NY Times
- As Global Governments Raise Taxes, U.S. Revenues Are Already Falling – WSJ
- If you read only one Donald Trump transcript this week, read this one – The Poke
- States Warn of Budget Crunch Under Republican Tax Plan – NY Times
- Venezuela’s State Oil Producer Tells Staff to Cut Costs by 50% – Bloomberg
- Why Your Flat-Screen TV Would Cost More If Nafta Ends – WSJ
Europe:
- Night being ’lost’ to artificial light – BBC
- Euro-Area Growth Accelerates on Path to Decade-Best Performance – Bloomberg
- ECB lowers emergency funding cap for Greek banks to 25.8 billion euros – Reuters
- U.K. Faces Longest Fall in Living Standards on Record – Bloomberg
- Brexit torpedoes UK 2023 culture plans – BBC
- The Eurozone’s Fiscal Version of the Impossible Trinity? – Council of Financial Relations
- Moody’s Brexit Monitor: UK economic growth continues to stabilise – Moody’s
- UK households pick up spending in third quarter, companies more cautious – Reuters
- Ken Clarke: Tories had deal with Rupert Murdoch for 2010 election – The Guardian
- Manafort flight records show deeper Kremlin ties than previously known – McClatchy
- Stagnant earnings forecast ’astonishing’ – BBC
- A Radiation Cloud, and a Mystery, From Russia – NY Times
- Brexit vote ’has made households £400-a-year worse off’, say researchers – Sky
- UK ’faces longest fall in living standards’ – BBC
- Gibraltar heading for abrupt exit from single market, says Spain – The Guardian
- European dismay at UK ’chaos and confusion’ over Brexit – RTE
Asia:
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- Tianjin’s new library looks out of this world – CNN
- Why Fewer Chinese Grads Go East to Prosper – Sixthone
- China stocks suffer worst one-day sell-off in 17 months – FT
- China’s $3.4 Trillion Corporate Bond Market Faces Rocky 2018 – Bloomberg
- Cold War drama caught on video as N. Korean soldier escapes – AP
- Hedge Funds Demand Chinese Buyers Pay More in M&A Deals – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- The Party Is Over for Australia’s $5.6 Trillion Housing Frenzy – Bloomberg
- Malcolm Turnbull dined with wealthy Chinese donor days after his company gave $40k to Queensland LNP – ABC
- Galaxy: 52-48 to Labor in Queensland (ON down 6 points) – Pollbludger
- Australia faces housing hangover twice the size of the GFC subprime era – The SMH
- Logging halted in 34 areas as environmentalists challenge contentious forest deal – The Age
- The dispiriting Queensland election campaign is a perfect example of Australia’s shrinking political ambition – Brisbane Times
- Malcolm Turnbull: Cabinet leaks raise questions over PM’s leadership – News.com.au
- Same-sex marriage debate could yet claim Malcolm Turnbull as a victim – Canberra Times
- Woolworths to open ‘dark stores’ in battle against Amazon – News.com.au
- ‘We’re not the police’: NBN boss reluctant to share speed data – The SMH
- Vital Signs: five economic red flags to watch for in 2018 – The Conversation
- Colin Barnett’s political career is surely over after interview sledging his Liberal colleagues – ABC
- Australia facing climate disaster on its doorstep, government’s white paper warns – The Guardian
- Treasurer Scott Morrison calls in the banks amid backbench push for royal commission – The SMH
- Elon Musk has finished building the world’s biggest battery in less than 100 days – The Verge
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An opportunity lost on tax reform – Interest.co.nz
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