Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Is Trump Driving the Stock Market Rally? – NY Times
- Goldman Wants a 100% Margin on Some Bitcoin Futures Trades – Bloomberg
- Out With the Old? Blockchain Requires a New Regulatory Approach – Coin Desk
- FCC Votes to End Net Neutrality Rules – Bloomberg
- U.S. regulators ditch net neutrality rules as legal battles loom – Reuters
- Pimco Goes Small to Get Big in Private Equity – WSJ
- Bitcoin Trading Thrives Wherever Regulators Crack Down Most – Bloomberg
- World’s richest 0.1% have boosted their wealth by as much as poorest half – The Guardian
- These Guys Want to Lend You Money Against Your Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- Generation Screwed – Huffington Post
- OPEC Wakes Up to the Threat of U.S. Shale 2.0 – Bloomberg
- Thinking about investing in bitcoin? The currency may be virtual, but the risk is real. – Washington Post
- Oil prices rise on North Sea pipeline outage, but growing US output looms – Reuters
- Investors pour cash into U.S. shale despite questions on returns – Reuters
- US tipped to take direct aim at China as Trump team loses patience on trade – SCMP
- Will Asia’s push for globalisation be the beacon of light in these dark days of rising protectionism? – SCMP
- The Dangerous Delusion of Price Stability – Project-Syndicate, William White
- Returns on foreign assets and liabilities: exorbitant privileges and stabilising adjustments – Bruegel
- The ‘everything bubble’ is about to burst, but is the world prepared? – Financial Post, AEP
- 2018 likely to be serious year of reckoning for global economy – SCMP
Americas:
- Compromise Tax Deal Reached: Tax Cuts for Wealthy Expand – Kqed
- A Christmastime Tax Cut for Some, a Lump of Coal for Others – WSJ
- Marco Rubio opposes current GOP tax plan; Mike Lee is undecided – CNBC
- Rubio a ‘no’ on GOP tax bill unless tax credit for working poor is expanded – Washington Post
- Yellen Isn’t Buying Trump’s Tax Cut Talk of an Economic Miracle – Bloomberg
- Two GOP Senators Slam Tax Cuts for Rich, But How Will They Vote? – Bloomberg
- A basic income could boost the US economy by $2.5 trillion – WEF
- The 11 worst places to buy a home if the GOP tax plan passes – Business Insider
- Are Private Schools Immoral? – The Atlantic
- A Booming Economy Will Challenge the Fed – WSJ
- Koch Industries launches a venture capital group – Axios
- What state has the most homes worth more than a million dollars? – Overflow Solutions
- Why It’s So Hard to Bet Against Canada’s Marijuana Boom – Bloomberg
- A cryptocurrency without a blockchain has been built to outperform bitcoin – Tech Review
- Real wages stagnate YoY, decline significantly since July – Bonddad
- How US Corporate-Tax Reform Will Boost Growth – Project-Syndicate, Barro
- Moving around: The changing geography of US manufacturing during the 20th century – VoxEU
Europe:
- Boxing champion awaits deportation after fighting for England six times – The Guardian
- Tory rebels warn May not to attempt to enshrine Brexit date in law – The Guardian
- Ireland expects to avoid any pain from U.S. tax overhaul – Washington Post
- Russia Wins in Arctic After U.S. Fails to Kill Giant Gas Project – Bloomberg
- Europe’s Central Bank, Lagging Behind Counterparts, Faces Eventful 2018 – NY Times
- Families with stable jobs at risk of homelessness in Britain, report finds – Guardian
- Putin plays to the domestic audience at annual press conference – BNE Intellinews
- IMF demands Ukraine president submit bill on anti-corruption court to parliament “in coming days” – BNE Intellinews
- How should the European Central Bank ‘normalise’ its monetary policy? – Bruegel
- The Story Behind Putin’s Mistrust of the West – Bloomberg, Bershidsky…very good read…
Asia:
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- Death of Man in Skyscraper Fall in China Puts a Spotlight on ‘Rooftopping’ – NY Times
- Greenland: China discreetly launches satellite ground station project – jichanglulu.wordpress.com
- Tell me how Trump’s North Korea gambit ends – Washington
- China raises market rates to fend off financial risks, growth cools – Reuters
- How to understand modern China – Marginal Revolution
- Two Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar – Cpj
- China Still Fears the Fed – WSJ
- CCXI chairman expects China’s economic growth to slow to 6.7pc in 2018 – SCMP
- Asian democracies on upward trend in corruption fight – Nikkei Asian Review
- Smuggled Chinese goods fuel tensions in Russia-led Asian bloc – Nikkei Asian Review
- China unveils satellite network plan for round-the-clock lock on South China Sea – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Federal Group declare ‘all out war’ on Tasmanian Labor over pokies policy – The Mercury
- Victorian Reason MP Fiona Patten introduces bill to end Church-run business tax exemptions – The Guardian
- Australian universities accused of sharing military technology with China – ABC
- Palaszczuk to flex new parliamentary muscle with tougher land-clearing laws – The Guardian
- John Alexander has not declared rental income from his $1400 per day country estate – The Age
- University places could be capped from 2018 as Government goes back to drawing board on education – ABC
- Bennelong byelection result ‘judgment’ on my leadership: Turnbull – The Guardian
- Greg Jericho: Will the end of the housing boom come with a bang or a whimper? – The Guardian
- Sam Dastyari scandal hits Washington amid growing concerns of Chinese political influence – ABC
- Listen: Survivors’ stories from the child abuse royal commission – The Guardian
- China is furious and Australia should expect more backlash – ABC
- Groundbreaking Australian Murray–Darling water agreement in peril – Nature
- Spring arrives two months late at the country’s largest real estate agency – Interest.co.nz
- Economists wary of Treasury’s upbeat forecasts – Interest.co.nz
- Turnbull declares ‘jobs and growth’ a reality as employment surges – Guardian
- Australia-China mistrust steals spotlight in Sydney by-election – Nikkei Asian Review
- ACCC takes Optus to court for allegedly misleading 20,000 customers – ABC
- The influential network targeting the Turnbull government in Bennelong – Fairfax
- Reliable? Baseload? Liddell unit broken and out for most of summer – Reneweconomy
- The Greens’ simple way to lift wages: pay public servants more – Fairfax…tells us the Green core base includes a lot of public servants?…
- Housing boom fills Victoria’s coffers: more spending, more income and a bigger surplus – Fairfax…it doesn’t get any more obvious than this: Population Ponzi is the only growth strategy in town for politicians…..
- China says Australia disrupting ‘stability and peace’ in South China Sea; build-up on islands continues – ABC
- Where white-collar crime meets a wet lettuce leaf – Fairfax
- There’s five rules in the business of buying influence – Fairfax….Pascoemeter running the ‘corruption is normal’ line…
- The new era: Ready or not, China is here – The Monthly
- We are all diminished: Australian politics is full of contradictions, double standards and gaping voids – The Monthly, Don Watson…great read…
- ‘The biggest unspoken crisis in the country’: The data that should worry every Aussie – New daily, Willoughby…epic read – Australia has a massive sports gambling issue…
….and furthermore…
- F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules – NY Times
- US regulator scraps net neutrality rules that protect open internet – Guardian
- Why Net Neutrality Was Repealed and How It Affects You – NY Times
- It’s an Unequal World. It Doesn’t Have to Be. – NY Times
- The FCC’s net neutrality rules are gone. Now this is what could happen to the Web. – Washington Post
- Turns out the key to motivating some students is … bribing them – Financial Post
- Is Bitcoin the new way of doing business? At the moment it’s slow and costly – Guardian
- The Holy Grail of Genetic Engineering – Project-Syndicate
- Indirect effects of unfair employer behaviour on workplace performance – VoxEU
- Everyone in the world should be taxed on their energy footprint – Aeon
- ‘Let the soul dangle’: how mind-wandering spurs creativity – Aeon
- How to fight work bullshit (and keep your job and your dignity) – Aeon…is work the mother lode of bullshit?…
