Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bill Gates Says Taxing Capital Gains Is the Best Way to Tap Big Fortunes – Bloomberg
- Foreign selling of U.S. Treasuries in December hits record high -data – Reuters
- Pricing algorithms can learn to collude with each other to raise prices – Tech Review
- The risky ’leveraged loan’ market just sunk to a whole new low – Business Insider
- How elite investors use artificial intelligence and machine learning to gain an edge – CNN
- Corporate Credit Could Be the Next Bubble to Burst – Barron’s
Americas:
- Worry About Debt? Not So Fast, Some Economists Say – WSJ
- Trump’s Take on Trade Sounds a Lot Like Ocasio-Cortez’s Brand of Socialism – Bloomberg
- U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166 Billion – Bloomberg
- What Next for Venezuela? – Project Syndicate
- Amazon paid no federal taxes on $11.2 billion in profits last year – Washington Post
- U.S. budget deficit running over 40 percent higher than last year – PBS
- US workers were fed up in 2018. Just look at this chart – VOX
Europe:
- For Wall Street Banks in London, It’s Moving Time – NY Times
- Rift Between Trump and Europe Is Now Open and Angry – NY Times
- UK-Japan trade talks sour after letter from Hunt and Fox – FT
- Brexit scaremongers are red-faced as EU chiefs ensure transport links will stay – The Sun
- Russia’s Gazprombank freezes accounts of Venezuela’s PDVSA – Reuters
- Merkel Rejects U.S. Demands That Europe Pull Out of Iran Nuclear Deal – NY Times
- ECB Moves Closer to Global Dovish Shift as Coeure Mulls Loans – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Japan’s PM nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize on U.S. request: Asahi – Reuters
- UK says Huawei is manageable risk to 5G – FT
- Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed online – ZDNet
- New Zealand bans Huawei, China has message for New Zealand – SCMP
- Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang – FT
- China’s most popular app is a propaganda tool teaching Xi Jinping Thought – SCMP
- Why so glum, China? – The Economist
Trans-Tasman:
- Scott Morrison’s control of parliament will be tested again when Labor pushes for stronger legal protections for small businesses – 9News
- It’s time to change our drug dog policies to catch dealers, not low-level users at public events – The Conversation
- Over 2000 people died after receiving Centrelink robo-debt notice, figures reveal – ABC
- Evidence may have been destroyed in AWU leak case, AFP says – The Guardian
- Mandatory air con for nursing homes unlikely in final aged care regulations – ABC
- You might not believe it, but Australia is safer now than a decade ago – The Mandarin
- PM says major parties caught up in likely cyber attack on Australia’s Parliament – ABC
- Australia’s biggest companies ignore climate change risk: report – ABC
- Woolworths to stop selling $1 milk in win for dairy farmers – ABC
- Labor to offer $40,000 scholarships for best teachers – SBS
- Hundreds of foreign criminals are being handed back their cancelled visas – The SMH
- Project Dragon and China’s attempts to reclaim money from inside Australia – ABC
- A taxing year looms – Interest.co.nz
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