Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How Elon Musk’s secretive foundation hands out his billions – The Guardian
- Amazon debuts its adorable delivery robot called Scout – CNBC
- The Global Boom, Barely Begun, May Be Over – WSJ
- Tesla slashed Model S and X staff in recent layoffs – CNBC
- Despite Bitcoin’s Dive, a Former Soviet Republic Is Still Betting Big on It – NY Times
- Risky Assets Move in Tandem, Stoking Fears More Volatility Lies Ahead – WSJ
- The Three Revolutions Economics Needs – Project Syndicate
Americas:
- Billionaire Ken Griffin Buys America’s Most Expensive Home for $238 Million – WSJ
- White House seeks list of programs that would be hurt if shutdown lasts into March – Washington Post
- White House Economist Says Economy May Not Grow In First Quarter – WSJ
- Bloomberg: Trying to legalize marijuana is ’perhaps the stupidest thing anybody has ever done’ – The Hill
- U.S. Recognizes Venezuelan Opposition Leader as Interim President – WSJ
- Maduro rival claims Venezuela presidency amid protests, U.S. support – Reuters
- Maduro says Venezuela is breaking relations with US, gives American diplomats 72 hours to leave country – CNBC
- Too Many Americans Will Never Be Able to Retire – Bloomberg
- Poll: Shutdown, Russia drive Trump to all-time high disapproval – Politico
- No Pay Stub? No Problem. Unconventional Mortgages Make a Comeback – WSJ
- U.S. Uninsured Rate Rises to Four-Year High – Gallup
- The tax cut investment ’boom’ is already over. Some say it never really started – CNN
- The Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work – City Lab
Europe:
- Dutch say 250 firms interested in Brexit move – Yahoo
- Brussels to sue UK over tax breaks for commodities traders – FT
- British food and drink industry warns that Theresa May is ignoring their concerns about a ’catastrophic’ no-deal Brexit – Business Insider
- Wealthy Brexiteers like James Dyson are jumping ship. Why might that be? – The Guardian
- The euro area is back on the brink of recession – The Economist
- Tory chiefs warn they’ll lose a snap General Election as they’re underprepared – The Sun
- Europe can break the Brexit impasse – FT
- Brexit delay is ’most likely’ – Osborne – BBC
Asia:
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- China builds up gold reserves in shift away from dollar – Nikkei
- China’s economic chief dismisses growth fears – FT
- China Risks Real Hard Landing This Time – WSJ
- China Companies Suspected of Buying Own Bonds to Spur Demand – Bloomberg
- Chinese-Australian Writer Yang Hengjun Disappears in China – NY Times
- Foxconn Looks Beyond China to India for iPhone Assembly – WSJ
- China’s Plan for Tech Dominance Is Advancing, Business Groups Say – WSJ
Trans-Tasman:
- Insurers gaining ‘open-ended access’ to medical records slammed as ‘unfair privacy breach’ – ABC
- Dirty money: how Australia’s biggest banks are being used to clean millions in Russian mafia funds – Yahoo
- The media forgets how it destroyed Julia Gillard – New Politics
- How the country’s over-burdened internet infrastructure is hurting video streaming – New Daily
- Coalition’s plan for anti-corruption body a ‘sham’ set up to protect MPs, former judge says – The Guardian
- China confirms it has detained missing Chinese-Australian writer, DFAT says – ABC
- An unemotional, unpolitical look at homicide statistics in Australia – Crime Statistics
- Scott Morrison’s ‘own goal’ on Warren Mundine creates new enemies and splits MPs – ABC
- Australians love illegal drugs, please make them safer – Medium
- Afterpay accessing electoral roll data under laws designed to target terrorism, money laundering – The Age
- ‘High intensity’ heatwave likely as report reveals fire spending gaps – The SMH
- ‘Doom loop’ threatens to send Aussie dollar plummeting – The SMH
- ‘Growth’ of community housing may be an illusion. The cost-shifting isn’t – The Conversation
- Investors to benefit from proposed clarification of bright-line test rules – Interest.co.nz
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The nuts & bolts of the RBNZ’s proposals to increase bank capital – Interest.co.nz