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An early taste for literature, Charles Conder, 1888, Art Gallery of Ballarat
Macro, Markets & Investing
- United Nations agrees more sanctions on North Korea, but is the world running out of options? – SCMP
- China, US can drive global growth despite policy differences, deputy finance minister says – SCMP
- LNG spot prices hit 3-year high in Asia – Nikkei Asian Review
- The jackpot ahead for Japan’s trading houses and nonferrous metal producers – Nikkei Asian Review
- U.S. Tax Bill May Inspire Cuts Globally, While Fueling Trade Tensions – NY Times
- Bitcoin loses a quarter of its value in one day’s trading – Guardian
- Complacent regulators have two years to prevent a financial crash – Guardian
- US tax cuts unnerve Asian economies – Nikkei Asian Review
- What Is Bitcoin Good For? – Bloomberg
- How Blockchain Could Revolutionize Commodity Markets – Bloomberg
- Long Island Iced Tea’s blockchain pivot is the height of mania – FT.com
- Take the very long view on asset prices – FT.com, Tett…thought provoking…
- Bitcoin sell-off could spark a market contagion, analyst warns – CNBC
- The bond yield conundrum: 100 years of spreads – Bonddad
- Agricultural commodity prices to fall again in 2018, says Goldman Sachs – Agrimoney
- Corporate Tax Changes Will Lead to International Tax Battles – Peterson Institute
- Why gold is losing its lustre as an investor safe haven – NZ Herald
- TAKING THE RED OR BLUE PILL? (pdf) – Yanis Varoufakis, Journal of Australian Political Economy…well worth a read…
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Asia
- Why China’s war on Christmas is gathering pace – SCMP
- Can China realise Xi Jinping’s vision for a green measure of sustainable growth? – SCMP
- China Raging Against Dying of the Light…Or Why Peak Employment in China is Imminent – Economica
- China Admits To Fake Data (Again) – Hidden Debt & Inflated Revenues – Zero Hedge
- China’s using cheap debt to ‘bend other countries to its will,’ academic says – CNBC
- China’s Ambitions for Drone Industry Flying High – Caixin
- China is methodically building the world’s most ambitious carbon market – Vox
- Chinese entrepreneur sentenced to over five years’ prison for selling VPN service – DW
- How Hong Kong land policies help fuel city’s ever-rising property prices – SCMP
- Japan’s journey to fiscal health fraught with challenges – Nikkei Asian Review
- Kazakhstan says it may appeal ruling over $22.6 billion frozen assets – Reuters
- China’s LNG Imports Surge to Record Amid Winter Heating Crunch – Bloomberg
- Births in Japan drop to lowest level since records began – FT.com
- Kazakhs lose faith in national currency – BNE Intellinews
- From China to Singapore, Asian countries are increasingly uneasy with the rise of bitcoin – CNBC
Europe
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- Skilled crafts boom stretches capacities in Germany – DW
- Catalonia’s hopes for peace stall as further wave of arrests feared – Guardian
- UK household spending slows to lowest level in almost six years – Guardian
- Huge health gap revealed between UK’s rich and poor – Guardian
- Steelworkers face huge pension cuts as Tata completes merger – Guardian
- Housing shortage could put Corbyn in No 10, says Buxton – Telegraph
- UK economy accelerates to defy gloomy forecasts – Telegraph
- Bundesbank says no euro zone cryptocurrency in sight – Reuters
- Russia central bank says finds law violations at bailed out Promsvyazbank – Reuters
- Euro-Zone Reform Proposals Don’t Go Far Enough – Bloomberg
- Monetary-Policy Normalization in Europe in 2018 – Project-Syndicate, Reinhart…believe it when you see it…
- Heard of “Rules of origin”? They could severely restrict Britain’s trade post-Brexit – Prospect
Americas
- ‘I hope I can quit working in a few years’: A preview of the U.S. without pensions – Washington Post…everyone should have a read of this…
- Canada’s first refinery in 30 years could rescue battered oil producers – Financial Post
- Paradise Papers: US puts sanctions on billionaire over dealings in DRC – Guardian
- Even With Trump Minerals Order, U.S. Miners Face Uphill Battle With China – Bloomberg
- Suddenly, America’s Trade Deficit Isn’t So Awful – Bloomberg
- How much the tax cuts could juice the economy, in one chart – MarketWatch
- Eclipse of US Free-Trade Legacy in Americas and Asia Pacific – Economonitor
- Canada’s immigration targets ‘a form of housing policy,’ says study – Vancouver Sun…so are Australia’s….
- American Life-Expectancy Falls For Second Straight Year As Drug Overdoses Soar – Zero Hedge
- Trump Escalates His Attacks Against FBI Officials – Atlantic
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Terra Incognita
- We are all diminished – The Monthly, Don Watson…epic read – Australian politics has become elegiac…
- We’d be mugs to panic and cut our cut our corporate tax rate – Domainfax, Gitto
- It’s all John Howard’s fault – The Saturday Paper
- Voters are burning politicians who won’t ditch coal – Domainfax
- What will it take to kick off a serious enquiry into the Sydney transport mess? – Pearls & Irritations, Austen
- Ready or not, China is here – The Monthly
- Australia faces massive oversupply of medicinal marijuana – New daily
- Corporate welfare up, social welfare down – Michael West
- Charge tax shark Exxon with contempt of Parliament – Michael West…$24Bln in revenues and not a cent paid in tax….
- AEMO plans for future (clean) grid, with no mention of base-load – Reneweconomy
- Booking.com: what the online travel giant owes Australia – Michael West….and to think Fairfax told this guy he didn’t have the skills set for where they were going…
…and furthermore…
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- Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump: A friendship of convenience – Domainfax…..read well after lunch…
- You may not know much about the companies exposing your personal information. But they know a lot about you. – Washington Post
- New lab-bred super corals could help avert global reef wipeout – Guardian
- 2017: the sequel … seven lessons for Hollywood after summer’s disasters – Guardian
- ‘The difficulty is the point’: teaching spoon-fed students how to really read – Guardian
- An ageing population and the end of inheritance – FT.com…very good read – aged care, costs, and economic priorities are now centre of the economic radar…
- He died for our debts, not our sins – RenegadeInc
- Who funds which multilateral organizations? – Brookings…interesting report…
- How to combat fake news and disinformation – Brookings…good charts…
- Racing the Machine – Project-Syndicate, Skidelsky
- Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor – VoxEU
- This year has seen an explosion of rage about sexual harassment: Will it lead to lasting change? – Economist
- Is economics more religion than science? – Prospect
- What Is Panama Disease? Fungus Could Wipe Out World’s Banana Supply – IB Times
- Apples, Tomatoes Help Reduce Lung Deterioration In Ex-Smokers: Study – IB Times
- Do Governments Drive Global Trade Imbalances? – Peterson Institute
- Against citizen science: It might style itself as a grassroots movement but citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business – Aeon
- How natural is numeracy? Where does our number sense come from? Is it a neural capacity we are born with — or is it a product of our culture? – Aeon
- The connection between Universal Credit, ordeals and experiments in electrocuting laboratory rats – Flassbeck Economics
- Let’s not become slaves to algorithms – SCMP
- Uganda’s ‘super beans’ – an answer to food insecurity – DW
- Bulletproof Graphene: Paper-Thin Material Becomes Harder Than Diamonds On Impact – IB Times