Tree of Life, John Coburn, 1965, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro Markets & Investing
- Can The Fed Really Boost Bond Yields? – RealInvestmentAdvice
- China has become the new Japan, as nation eschews coal for natural gas in its war on air pollution – SCMP
- Why Low Inflation Is No Surprise – Project-Syndicate DeLong
- ‘Melt-up’ coinage could signal last hurrah for US stock market – Guardian
- Saudi Arabia converts Aramco into joint-stock company ahead of historic IPO – Reuters
- Global Debt Hits Record $233 Trillion – Bloomberg
- Global Factory Boom Sends Commodities Prices Soaring – Bloomberg
- There’s a battle of tax codes raging — the US and China just upped the arms race – CNBC
- US on the cusp of enjoying ‘energy superpower’ status, analyst says – CNBC
- The rate of return on everything – VoxEU
- What Buy-and-Holders Really Believe – ValueWalk
Asia
- Turkey’s Halkbank Could Suffer From Ex-Banker’s U.S. Conviction – Bloomberg
- Global distressed-debt funds circle China again, eye $256 billion bad-loans market – Reuters
- A good start but what’s in store for China’s economy in 2018? – SCMP
- A Chinese flag flies over Sri Lanka as China extends its reach into India’s backyard – SCMP
- Code crackdown: China payments restrictions to hit profits – Reuters
- China aims to supersize coal sector through mergers – Reuters
- There are signs of another India-China border spat – CNBC
- China Fails to Woo U.S. With Financial Sector Opening – Bruegel
- China’s First Centralized Online Personal Credit Database Takes Shape – Caixin
Europe
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- Theresa May Apologizes for Delays in Britain’s Health System – NY Times
- UK productivity jumps at fastest rate for six years – Guardian
- As Yields Tank, HSBC Warns Greece Needs More Debt Relief – Value Walk
- Ukraine’s Future Nazi Leader? – Zero Hedge
- Why Germans Are Being Paid To Use Power – Zero Hedge
- UK new car sales record biggest drop since 2009 – RTE
- Euro zone inflation falls to 1.4% – Irish Times
- Ghost of Weimar Looms Over German Politics – Bloomberg
- Europe’s sprawling new financial law enters into force – Economist
Americas
- It’s Been an Open Secret All Along – The Atlantic…he is right, but it doesn’t stop with Trump, the ugliness of neo-liberalism is the open secret…
- U.S. Added Fewer Jobs Than Expected in December – Bloomberg
- Federal Reserve hopes tax cuts will lift economy – CBS
- China may face wall buying U.S. companies – CBS
- Wage inequality in Latin America: Lessons from a supply-demand framework – VoxEU
- An Unusually Balanced US Recovery – Peterson Institute
- Farmers Gave Trump Their Votes. Now They’re Looking for a Return – Bloomberg
- Warren Buffett Says Years of U.S. Growth ‘Certainly Lie Ahead’ – Bloomberg
- Trump administration’s crackdown on pot sales could push banks out of cannabis industry – LA Times
- The Case for Trump Campaign Collusion – Rolling Stone
Terra Incognita
- How consultants are making NSW their ‘muppet’ – Domainfax
- Is it really so difficult to deport criminal non-citizens? Experts say it’s actually easy – Domainfax
- Economic and geopolitical risks ahead for 2018 – Domainfax, Hewson
- Qantas says foreign ownership cap could make fleet overhaul harder – Domainfax..management wants to be closer to the global 1%…
- Australian dollar in 2018-19: Experts clash on whether it will crash or surge – ABC…could it surge then crash?…
- Energy policy failure behind 10-year story of spiralling electricity bills – ABC… a generations worth of policy rogering…
- Falling Australian Home Prices A Sign of Things to Come in 2018 – Bloomberg
- The gig economy is taking us all for a ride – New Daily
- Dreams of speed gone to the dogs – Michael West
…and furthermore…
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- China has started building its third aircraft carrier, military sources say – SCMP
- Is China planning to take Taiwan by force in 2020? – SCMP
- Here’s why China may regret the Pyrrhic victory of winning the global artificial intelligence race – SCMP
- Facial recognition with your takeaway coffee – Domainfax…facial recognition is here, and is very close to effective lie detection – which means it should soon be in our media as a ‘bullshit’ monitor underneath every last interview discussion…
- All iPhones, iPads and Mac computers are affected by microchip flaw that leaves devices vulnerable to hackers, Apple says – Telegraph
- ‘Eco-colonialism’: Rift grows between Indigenous leaders and green activists – Financial Post
- Massive new data set suggests economic inequality is about to get even worse – Washington Post
- Warren Buffett explains what’s wrong with the economic system that made him billions – Market Watch
- Does Trade Fuel Inequality? – Project-Syndicate, Frankel
- Forget Treason. Money Laundering Is Serious. – Bloomberg
- Wanted: A Unifying Theory of Behavioral Economics – Bloomberg
- Philip Morris wants to quit its tobacco habit – CBS
- Working while stoned: How will companies cope? – CBS
- Household inequality and the consumption response to aggregate real shocks – VoxEU
- The role of trade and information technology in the decline of merchant guilds – VoxEU…try telling that to the AMA…
- Bulletproof Graphene: Paper-Thin Material Becomes Harder Than Diamonds On Impact – IB Times
- Chocolate Shortage May Lead To Disappearance Within 40 Years, Scientists Say – IB Times
- Universal Basic Income: Why Elon Musk Thinks It May Be The Future – IB Times
- Here’s How to Protect Your PC’s Processor – Rolling Stone