Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Investors, Fed Officials Are Out of Sync – WSJ
- Powell’s Bet: The Data Is Right, the Market Is Wrong – WSJ
- Dow falls 650 points to 14-month low, Nasdaq enters bear market – CNBC
- Visionary Brain Genius Elon Musk Has Invented The World’s Worst And Most Expensive Subway – Deadspin
- First Futures Contract to Pay Out in Bitcoin Poised for Green Light – WSJ
- The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire – The Ringer
- Global Trade Tensions Boil Over at Staid W.T.O. Forum – NY Times
Americas:
- Mueller may submit report to attorney general as soon as mid-February – NBC
- A Top Aide’s Exit Plan Raises Eyebrows in the White House – NY Times
- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Resigns, Rebuking Trump’s Worldview – NY Times
- ’Oh, no’: The day Trump learned to tweet – Politico
- Trump Orders Big Troop Reduction in Afghanistan – WSJ
- Defense secretary James Mattis is quitting because he doesn’t agree with Trump – CNBC
- Even a Booming Job Market Can’t Fill Retirement Shortfall for Older Workers – WSJ
- What it looks and sounds like when a gas driller overruns your land – Pro Publica
- Women in Latin America Are Being Murdered at Record Rates – WSJ
- Trump tariff war with China sends U.S. retailers on buying binge – Reuters
Europe:
- Putin Welcomes Trump’s Syria Withdrawal: ‘Donald’s Right’ – NY Times
- Putin tells May to ’fulfil will of people’ on Brexit – The Guardian
- Brussels warns four banks in alleged bond trading cartel probe – FT
- Pamela Anderson on Europe’s Turmoil – Jacobin Mag
- Drones ground flights at Gatwick – BBC
- Brexit uncertainty has ‘intensified considerably’, Bank of England warns – FT
Asia:
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- 115 Percent of Trump’s China Tariff Revenue Goes to Paying Off Angry Farmers – Council on Foreign Relations
- China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients – sources – Reuters
- N. Korea says it won’t denuclearize unless US removes threat – AP
- U.S. and more than a dozen allies to condemn China for economic espionage – Washington Post
- Indian technology talent is flocking to Canada – The Economist
- China’s tech giants want to go global. Just one thing might stand in their way. – Tech Review
Trans-Tasman:
- Steep Funding Cuts for Australian Science Announced – The Scientist
- Australia to miss 2030 emissions targets by vast margin, Coalition’s projections reveal – The Guardian
- Border force review finds staff subject to ‘alarming’ levels of sexual harassment and bullying – The Guardian
- Weighed down by sex and sleaze, the Coalition ends the year the way it started – The SMH
- Coalition pledge to crack down on tax avoidance achieves almost nothing in three years – The Guardian
- Revealed: Factional war to oust rival Liberal MPs – Canberra Times
- Adani employee and traditional owner referred to ASIC over million-dollar trust fund collapse – ABC
- China increases its stake in Australian land – The Age
- Scott Morrison’s fixer offered Craig Kelly’s challenger a $350,000 party job to drop out – The Age
- Power bills drop $28 a year thanks to renewable policy, since dumped by the government – Brisbane Times
- Canberrans given opportunity to buy in to new community solar farm – Canberra Times
- Morrison under the spotlight after fresh scandal involving conservative MP – New Daily
- Sydney hail storm declared a catastrophe as insurance claims lodged – SBS
- Suggestions Auckland housing will follow Sydney & Melbourne ‘baseless’ – Interest.co.nz
- Residential property sales up 4.2% in 11 months to November versus same period last year – Interest.co.nz