Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Blockchain To The Rescue Creating A ’New Future’ For Digital Identities – Forbes
- The Five Stages Of Not Owning Bitcoin Grief – Forbes
- Microsoft Halts Bitcoin Transactions Because It’s An “Unstable Currency” – Bleeping Computer
- At Davos, Elites Simulate the Refugee “Experience” – Vanity Fair
- Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History – NY Times
- Does Trade Fuel Inequality? – Project Syndicate
- Why Low Inflation Is No Surprise – Project Syndicate
- Bitcoin’s Cheap Energy Feast Is Ending – Bloomberg
Americas:
- We’re still better off with Trump than Clinton – NY Post
- The Mooch’s gift to Trump staff: A taxpayer-funded stylist – Politico
- ‘Learn his name first’: The politicizing of military widows is touching a nerve – Washington Post
- Not even “The Last Jedi” will reverse Americans’ retreat from cinemas – The Economist
- Steve Bannon: Donald Trump Jr was not ’treasonous’ – The Guardian
- White House Doesn’t See Need for Faster Fed Hikes – Bloomberg
- Fed’s Bullard Says Tax Overhaul May Light Fire Under Investment – Bloomberg
- Trump’s secret, shrinking schedule – Axios
- U.S. Households May Rue the Binge of 2017 – Bloomberg
- Companies that announced big bonuses after GOP tax cut are now laying off their workers – Think Progress
- Life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row – The Economist
Europe:
- Russia meddling in Mexican election – Reuters
- BBC editor quits over equal pay row – BBC
- Why Europe’s wars of religion put 40,000 ‘witches’ to a terrible death – The Guardian
- Theresa May to appoint a ’Cabinet minister for no deal Brexit’ in reshuffle – The Telegraph
- Germany’s Angela Merkel once seemed invincible. Now her time may be running out. – Washington Post
Asia:
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- PBoC researchers warm to interest rate rise “in the short term”: state media – FT
- The most expensive infrastructure plan in history – Axios
- How U.S. Intelligence Agencies Underestimated North Korea – NY Times
- North Korean Hackers Hijack Computers to Mine Cryptocurrencies – Bloomberg
- A Chinese Empire Reborn – NY Times
- Making China Great Again – New Yorker
Trans-Tasman:
- Treasury public servants wanted negative gearing documents kept secret from ABC – ABC
- Australia cooking the books on climate change policy – The Age
- Australia’s broadband slower than Kazakhstan’s – The SMH
- Payday lenders ask customers to share myGov passwords, putting them at risk – ABC
- Executive email reveals stoush over ‘stage-managed’ process to benefit egg industry – ABC
- The feared other: Peter Dutton’s and Australia’s pathology around race – The Guardian
- Indigenous rangers: expansion call as support from One Nation voters revealed – The Guardian
- Scientists say intensifying heatwaves will soon make Australian cities ‘uninhabitable’ – Techly
- Canberra’s sudden interest in African crime in Victoria smacks of opportunism – The SMH
- Advertising banned, drinks taxed, vending machines removed: doctors’ plan for war on sugar – The SMH
- Michael Danby spent $4574 of taxpayer funds on ads attacking ABC journalist – The SMH
- Sydney hits its highest temperature ever recorded with Penrith reaching 47.3 degrees Celsius – ABC
- Smashed avocado generation proves financially focused – News.com.au
- “The sense of urgency has disappeared” from NZ’s housing – Interest.co.nz
- How much income do you need to buy a house in NZ? – Interest.co.nz