The Intruder, Albert Tucker, 1964, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Macro, Markets & Investing
- Brent oil blasts through $70 as Iran showdown looms – Telegraph
- Visa and Dynamics Unveil the World’s First Wallet Card – DFA
- What’s $27 Billion to Wall Street? An Alarming Drop in Revenue – NY Times
- China Sets New Records for Gobbling Up the World’s Commodities – Bloomberg
- The Chinese are now buying as much stuff as Americans, a game-changer for the world economy – Washington Post
- Corporations may dodge billions in U.S. taxes through new loophole: experts – Reuters
- Grain glut leaves U.S. farmers facing losses from specialty corn – Reuters
- Why a U.S. move to exit NAFTA is not the end of the free-trade deal — or free trade – MarketWatch
- The impact of immigration on wage distributions in the era of technical automation – VoxEU
- China just reminded the United States that Beijing is its banker – CNBC
- IMO 2020, a shipping regulation that may reshape global coal trade – Platts
- How the rising minimum wage could lead to more automation – Prospect
- Cotton futures soar to 7-month high, as US exports make bumper start to 2018 – Agrimoney
- The elephant in the world – RWER
- If you remember only one thing about inflation, remember this – Reformed Broker
- It’s a Record Year for Natural Gas. Yay? – Bloomberg
- Weak Productivity: The Role of Financial Factors and Policies – IMF Blog
- In Defense of Economic Populism – Project-Syndicate, Rodrik
- Good Times at Last? – Project-Syndicate, O’Neill
- Ready or Not for the Next Recession? – Project-Syndicate, Eichengreen
- Tight monetary policy is not the answer to weak productivity growth – VoxEU
- “This Has Only Happened Twice In History” – Goldman Asks “Should We Worry?” – Zero Hedge…good question to ask…
Asia
- Get ready for a trade deficit, China, top economist warns – SCMP…they’d want RMB to be convertible before then…
- Will 2018 be the year Shenzhen and Guangzhou finally overtake Hong Kong? – SCMP
- China’s trade surplus with the US hit a record high in 2017 – CNBC
- What a China Response to U.S. Tax Cuts Means for the Yuan – Bloomberg
- Booming Global Trade Helped China Exports Surge Last Year – Bloomberg
- China’s trade surplus with US hits record high in 2017 amid rising tensions – SCMP
- How China’s market economy has fuelled a prostitution boom – SCMP
- How the mainland went from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’ – SCMP
- China’s asset-management growth plummets after sweeping regulations rain down on shadow banking sector – SCMP
- In A “Synchronized” Global Economy, China’s Numbers Are Worrisome – ValueWalk
- China Further Tightens Screws on Entrusted Loans – Caixin
- India zooms past Germany as fourth-largest auto market – Nikkei Asian Review
- Asia will be right in the thick of an oncoming tax war with the US – SCMP
- Flashing cash, China spearheads Mekong economic integration – Nikkei Asian Review
- Premier Li Signals 2017 Growth Beat Target – Caixin
Europe
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- Help-to-buy scheme leads to 50% rise in first-time buyers – Irish Times
- May tells bankers they are a priority for Brexit amid job warnings – RTE
- Europeans look to EU for protection from globalization – Deutsche Welle
- Germany’s boom and Europe’s problems – Deutsche Welle
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Fighting Russian Interference – Bloomberg, Bershidsky
- Where now for Greece? – Prospect
- Bank liquidation in the European Union: clarification needed – Bruegel
- Reform of the euro zone: A wind of hope? – Economonitor
- Banks cut back consumer credit in fear of rising risks – Telegraph
- Russia seeks new gas markets in South Asia as sanctions bite – Nikkei Asian Review
- Angry Protesters Burn EU Flags As Chaos Strikes Bulgaria – Zero Hedge
- Iceland tells companies: Close gender pay gap—or pay up – Euronews
- Eurozone jobless rate hits lowest level in almost nine years as recovery strengthens – Euronews
- Europe Has Completely Turned the Tables on Brexit – Bloomberg, Bershidsky
Americas
- Trump pans immigration proposal as bringing people from ‘shithole countries’ – Guardian…this is the apogee of neoliberalism…
- The Twin Insurgency – The American Interest…yes, the plutocrats have taken control…
- Canada is now playing hardball on trade with the U.S. — good – Financial Post
- NAFTA or not, the Canadian dollar and Mexican peso are in for a wild ride – Financial Post
- Is a US government shutdown looming after Donald Trump’s DACA meddling? – Deutsche Welle
- Health Care Just Became the U.S.’s Largest Employer – Atlantic
- Trump wants fewer immigrants from “shithole countries” and more from places like Norway – Vox
- Trump Calls Haiti, African Nations ‘Shithole’ Countries – Bloomberg
- What the dip in US life expectancy is really about: inequality – Vox
- Trump’s “shithole countries” comment exposes the core of Trumpism – Vox
- Trump work requirement rewrites health care rules for poor – AP
- The Taxing Debate Over Tax Cuts – Economonitor
- The one-year-old Trump presidency – Economist
- Trump’s growth plan depends on a healthy dose of international trade – CNBC
- The US economy is doing well—but headwinds are building – Prospect
- Canadian Whiskey’s Long-Awaited Comeback – NY Times
- Canada talks tough on trade as endgame on NAFTA talks nears – Reuters
- The decline of mass incarceration is good for everyone – Washington Post
- A plague of million-dollar homes haunts real estate – CBS
- Why Venezuela’s economy is on the brink of collapse – NZ Herald
- The Pensions That Ate Latin America – Bloomberg
Terra Incognita
- Australian passports are the ‘most expensive’ in the world – New Daily
- Broken Medicare system forcing obese Australians to raid super – New Daily
- Amazon Australia was a big Christmas loser – NZ Herald
- Barriers to first home buyers – more than just smashed avo – Canstar
- Datacom wins Home Affairs contract for 250 immigration service call centre jobs – Fairfax
- A month in, Tesla’s SA battery is surpassing expectations – Pearls & Irritations
- Perceived public service corruption sapped $72.3b from GDP: Australia Institute – Fairfax
- ‘Sham contracting’, debt and distress overwhelm telco repair workers – ABC
- Canberra housing market steady after outperforming Sydney in 2017, experts say – ABC
- NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian ignored Treasury advice on tackling negative gearing – ABC
- The Shifting Sands of the Mortgage Industry – DFA
- November Retail Trends Underscores Weak Growth – DFA
- Australian universities must eschew narrow fixation on jobs – Independent Australia
- New Zealand Adds Craft Beer to Inflation Gauge as Tastes Change – Bloomberg
- Australia and New Zealand at loggerheads over manuka honey trademark – Guardian
- Big Four off scot-free in Paradise Papers “data breach” – Michael West
- Joe Hockey and the Reserve Bank: no such thing as a free $8.8 billion – Michael West
- More Australian graduates head into part-time jobs as economic chill persists – Guardian
- Industry funds overtake retail funds in the member satisfaction stakes – New Daily
- China trade with Australia soars, along with war of words – Fairfax
- Axing negative gearing would boost economy and home ownership, RBA conference paper finds – Fairfax
…and Furthermore…
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- Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling – NY Times
- Fast Radio Bursts Have a Unique Property That Can Help Us Determine Their Source – Futurism
- Introduction to LSTMs with TensorFlow: How to build a multilayered LSTM network to infer stock market sentiment from social conversation using TensorFlow. – O’Reilly
- This robotic maid takes us one step closer to ‘The Jetsons’ – Washington Post
- Why flying makes you flatulent, how to reduce it – and whether just letting go is OK – SCMP
- Notifications off: why I can’t stand my phone beeping with alerts all the time – SCMP
- Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, but Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver – Pew Research Center
- Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression. – Huffington Post
- Uber used tech tool to shield data from police outside US – AP
- What robot strippers say about sexism, tech and the future – AP
- Huge ice deposits exposed on Martian surface could sustain human outposts in the future – SCMP
- Working while stoned: How will companies cope? – CBS
- Are women in economics held to a higher standard than men? – Economist
- 4D World: Light Moving In Fourth Dimension Observed During Quantum Hall Experiment – IB Times
- Intel says patches can cause reboot problems in old chips – RTE
- Military Intelligence Has Weaponized Democracy Worldwide – Zero Hedge
Allure: What is it – Who’s got it?, 1978, Vicki Varvaressos, Art Gallery of New South Wales