Links 30 January 2018

Global Macro / Markets / Investing:

• This Is What the Average Bitcoin Owner Looks Like – Fortune
• World Economic Forum: 13 Big Tech Stories From Davos – PC Mag
• Artificial intelligence gets smarter at predicting what’s coming next – Silicon Angle
• Every One of the World’s Big Economies Is Now Growing – NY Times
• Biggest Stock Sell Signal Since 2013 Sparked by Record Inflows – Bloomberg
• Blockchain’s Broken Promises by Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate
• One Thing Is Clear From Davos, Blockchain Is Out Of Beta – Forbes
• Massive Cryptocurrency Heist Puts Spotlight on Exchange Security – Bloomberg

Americas:

• What “chain migration” really means — and why Donald Trump hates it so much – VOX
• Side Benefit to Amazon’s Headquarters Contest: Local Expertise – NY Times
• Canada, Mexico Reject Proposal to Rework Nafta Corporate Arbitration System – WSJ
• Thousands Of People Were Supposed To Regain Power In Puerto Rico On Saturday. They Didn’t. – BuzzFeed
• What the Economic Data Don’t Tell Us – NY Times
• Republicans redefine morality as whatever Trump does – Washington Post
• U.S. farmers have much to lose if NAFTA deal collapses – Reuters
• Trump’s high-risk reversal of 70 years of trade progress – Washington Post
• Why the Savings Rate Is a Reason to Worry About 2018 U.S. Growth – Bloomberg

Europe:

• Why building more homes will not solve Britain’s housing crisis – The Guardian
• Europe’s Youth Have Good Reason to Be Mad – Bloomberg
• Refugee crisis drives wedge between German coalition parties – FT
• UK shelves financial services Brexit position paper – FT
• JP Morgan in new warning on UK job cuts – BBC

Asia:

• Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government – WSJ
• In Global Currency Game, China Is Losing to U.S. – WSJ
• Japan’s Central Bank Sees No Need to Mint a Digital Currency – Bloomberg
• Chinese Investors Keep Losing Billions Online. Here’s Why. – NY Times

Trans-Tasman:

• How Australia’s cities can move jobs to people and fix our traffic nightmare – News.com.au
• Privatisation is deeply unpopular with voters. Here’s how to end it – The Guardian
• Corporation tax breaks kept secret to avoid ‘harsh criticism’: FOI documents – The SMH
• Abbott’s ‘razor gang’ considered banning young ‘job snobs’ from income support – ABC
• Australia, don’t become Trump’s America, warns Wayne Swan – The Guardian
• Aid groups lash Coalition’s plan for Australia to become major weapons exporter – ABC
• Killer robots used by unethical enemies will threaten Australia, army chief warns – WA Today
• Budget could be a ‘poison pill’, Deloitte Access Economics warns – The SMH
• Why the TPP was revived without Donald Trump – ABC
• What hope for wage growth when the right to strike is curtailed? – The Guardian
• NAPLAN: Robot marking of school tests scrapped by education ministers – ABC
• Real estate industry suffers another downturn in residential commissions – Interest.co.nz

Other:

• The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer’s – The Atlantic