Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Short Sellers’ Favorite Stock Bets Backfire – Bloomberg
- Meet cryptocurrency guru George Weiksner—he’s 11 – MarketWatch
- Should You Dollar-Cost Average? – Think New Found
- The Post-American World Economy – Foreign Affairs
- Don’t kid yourself—nobody knows what really triggered the market meltdown – Quartz
- The Threat of Contagion – The Daily Reckoning
- Bitcoin Investors Aren’t Paying Their Cryptocurrency Taxes – Fortune
- Cryptocurrency traders to launch lawsuit against Coincheck on… – Reuters
- Volatility Revives Trading on Wall Street – Bloomberg
- Surge in global oil supply may overtake demand in 2018: IEA – Reuters
- Bitcoin Industry Grapples With Age-Old Problem of Inheritance – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Trump threatens veto on immigration deal – Axios
- Trump’s Biggest Potential Conflict Of Interest Is Hiding In Plain Sight – Forbes
- Mulvaney tells Congress he would vote against his own budget – NBC
- Did The U.S. Really Wipe Out 200 Russian Mercenaries? – Daily Beast
- Why the Trump Administration Still Has Personnel Troubles – National Review
- The End of the Two-Party System – NY Times
- What If You Could Get Your Own Immigrant? – Politico
- Just Released: Great Recession’s Impact Lingers in Hardest-Hit – NY Fed
- U.S. Household Debt up $193 Billion to $13.15 Trillion to End 2017 – WSJ
Europe:
- Tax haven firms own 23,000 UK properties – BBC
- Europe’s future now rests on who owns the story of its past – The Guardian
- U.K. Inflation Holds Steady After BOE Warns of More Rate Hikes – Bloomberg
- Growing UK concern over pre-Christmas Border agreement – Irish Times
- Russia is targeting 2018 U.S. elections – Reuters
Asia:
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- Two journalists exposed a massacre in Burma. Now they’ll be awarded for their work — from prison. – Washington Post
- The Belt and Road Initiative Didn’t Quite Live up to its Hype in 2017 – Council on Foreign Relations
- From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech superpower – Wired
- Time to Put Alibaba’s Ant Under the Microscope – WSJ
- Canada launches security review of Chinese takeover bid for construction firm Aecon – SCMP
- As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is Silent – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- There’s no case for a corporate tax cut when one in five of Australia’s top companies don’t pay it – ABC
- Mega profits with no tax — corporate tax avoidance rife in Australia – ABC
- Barnaby Joyce’s political future in doubt as talk of mutiny goes public – ABC
- Not one rule-breaking political lobbyist suspended in five years, audit finds – The Guardian
- Tony Abbott urges Coalition not to create federal integrity body – The Guardian
- Woolworths Tasmanian supermarkets underpay cleaners, Fair Work Obudsman finds – Examiner
- Dentists are fed up with doing tooth extractions on toddlers, and sugar is to blame – ABC
- Political advisers: a case of who you know, not what you know? – The SMH
- Former Queensland Coalition MP pushing coal propaganda – Renew Economy
- No science minister, and it’s unclear where science fits in Australia – The Conversation
- “Why I decided to skip home ownership to retire at the ripe age of 35” – ABC
- Study of big pharma’s education events for doctors raises concerns about overtreatment – ABC
- Labor can unify the left by opposing Adani, but it can’t forget its blue-collar base – The Guardian
- Plumbing boss slugged with huge $121k penalty for ‘outrageous exploitation of a young person’.’ – News.com.au
- More traffickers are being jailed, but Queensland’s drug problem is getting worse – ABC
- NBN’s HFC Network Is Costing Taxpayers A Whole Lot More Than Anyone Ever Imagined – Gizmodo
- Inflation expectations – including for house prices – rise – Interest.co.nz