Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Ivanka Trump is reportedly under consideration to lead The World Bank – Business Insider
- Vanguard Won’t Let Investors Trade These Popular—but Controversial—Products – WSJ
- What Amazon’s Rise to No. 1 Says About the Stock Market – WSJ
- The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End – FiveThirtyEight
- Buy Low, Buy High – The Irrelevant Investor
- Stock Markets and the Rule of Law – The Reformed Broker
- How economics is trying to fix its gender problem – The Economist
Americas:
- Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration – Washington Post
- F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia – NY Times
- Trump Sold $35M Of Real Estate In 2018 – Forbes
- Trump chief economic adviser: Furloughed workers are ‘better off’ because they didn’t have to use vacation days – The Hill
- Trump’s immigration policy has foreign tech talent looking north of the border – Washington Post
- Mercurial Trump Has Made Path Out of Shutdown Much Harder to Find – NY Times
- Why is Congress so dumb? – Washington Post
- It’s Official: The Trump Tax Cuts Didn’t Pay for Themselves in Year One – NY Times
- What if Cities Are No Longer the Land of Opportunity for Low-Skilled Workers? – NY Times
- What Will Cause the Next US Recession? – Project Syndicate
- Government Shutdown Could End 99-Month Job Growth Streak – WSJ
- Economists See U.S. Recession Risk Rising – WSJ
- San Francisco must end its self-inflicted housing woes – San Fran Chronicle
Europe:
- The sub-prime timebomb is back – this time companies are lighting the fuse – The Guardian
- The next eurozone crisis has already started – The Telegraph
- Brexit: 2019 – The Year of Unlikely Outcomes – RTE
- How Sweden Overcame Socialism – WSJ
- How France redistributes more from rich to poor than Sweden – The Economist
- Chinese Huawei Executive Is Charged With Espionage in Poland – WSJ
Asia:
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- Why Jim Yong Kim’s move has shaken up the World Bank – FT
- How Aging Japan Defied Demographics and Revived Its Economy – WSJ
- Where Did the One Million Figure for Detentions in Xinjiang’s Camps Come From? – China File
- Can China become a scientific superpower? – The Economist
- Myanmar court rejects appeal by jailed Reuters reporters – Reuters
- The ‘China shock’ has not been as bad as Donald Trump thinks – FT
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian recruits have dwindled to virtually zero’: Scientology struggles in NSW – The SMH
- South Australia to consider banning single-use plastics such as straws – ABC
- Veterinarians abandon profession as suicide rate remains alarmingly high – ABC
- Federal Government to force local councils to hold Australia Day citizenship ceremonies – ABC
- Corrupt migration agents swindling ‘desperate’ customers face crackdown – The SMH
- Nats run risk of raising false hope among farmers – Farm Online
- Shorten to hit the road in Bill’s bus for Queensland campaign – The Guardian
- Who is accountable for our deaths? – The Guardian
- The Australian dream died alone in an apartment – The SMH
- Fact: Calling out political furphies works, in Australia at least – Canberra Times
- Experts confirm Sydney Opal Tower is ‘sound’ – SBS News
- Fresh from Victorian election victory, Daniel Andrews looms as a force in the federal poll – ABC
- How Peta Credlin has become the Liberal Party’s ‘great right hope’ – The SMH
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Kiwibank cuts its 2yr fixed rate – Interest.co.nz
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Other:
- From hyperbaric oxygen chambers to HumanChargers: welcome to the wellness revolution – The Times
- Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? – Outside Online