Global Macro/Markets
- The Shutdown Is Making it Harder for Economists to Understand the Shutdown – Time (now that’s some 3D Trump Chess going on there!)
- Malpass emerges as leading contender to head World Bank – Financial Times
- No correlation between top tax rates and growth rates – On The Economy
- The Case for More Short Selling – Institutional Investor
- Historian berates billionaires at Davos over tax avoidance – The Guardian
- U.N. judge quits, claims the Trump administration made threats over U.S. war crimes case – Newsweek
Americas
- Trump Says the Economy Is Unstoppable. Most Economists Say Otherwise. – New York Times
- Major cities may come to standstill as brutally cold temperatures hit – ABC News
- Bloomberg on Medicare for all: ’You could never afford that’ – The Hill (well he just lost his Presidential nomination)
- Trump sat down with Putin at G20 without US note-taker – Financial Times (no collusion!)
- Harley-Davidson Profit Is Wiped Out by President Trump’s Tariffs – Bloomberg
- US Coal Consumption Drops to Lowest Level Since 1979 – TiredEarth (winning!)
- Venezuela’s Supreme Court has banned opposition leader Juan Guaidó from leaving the country and frozen his bank accounts. – BBC
- John Podesta: Hillary Clinton is not running for president in 2020 – Axios (thank Dog below for that)
Europe/Middle East
- MPs back May’s bid to change Brexit deal – BBC
- EU adds Saudi Arabia to draft terrorism financing list: sources – Reuters
- Iran is still abiding by the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal despite the US pullout from the multinational agreement – France24
- UK votes for Brexit renegotiation, Brussels says no – Politico
Asia/sub-continent
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- Hundreds of schools to shut as toxic smog chokes Bangkok – Channelnews Asia
- Russia offered North Korea a nuclear power plant to interfere with Trump’s negotiations, report reveals – Newsweek
Australia/New Zealand
- Thieves use crowbar to steal little blue penguins in New Zealand – CNN
- Sea Of White: “Hundreds Of Thousands” Of Fish Dead In Australia – NDTV
- Revealed: Catholic schools reap $4.1 billion windfall in Scott Morrison’s funding ‘fix’ – SMH
- Labor attacks PM over banks report timing – The New Daily
- Telstra boss Andrew Penn calls for end to ‘unhealthy’ and ‘potentially dangerous’ immigration debate – ABC
- International peers say Australia will ‘fall short’ on climate action – SMH
Other
- Apple Was Slow to Act on FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying on iPhones – New York Times
- U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes – New York Times
- China to send over 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches in 2019 – Buz & Tech News – Sina
- Scientists demand military sonar ban to end mass whale strandings – Independent
- In a breakthrough first, Scientists translate brain signals directly into speech: Advance marks critical step toward brain-computer interfaces – ScienceDaily