Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy – The Atlantic
- What’s Really in Your Index Fund? – NY Times
- This Hedge Fund Reaps Huge Returns But It Doesn’t Want Your Money – Bloomberg
- The 2018 Global Corporate Venture Capital Report – CB Insights
- Investors Sound Warning About Markets’ Complacency on Interest Rates – WSJ
- WTO warns of global trade slowdown as indicator hits nine-year low – Reuters
- Janet Yellen on monetary policy, currencies, and manipulation – Brookings
Americas:
- Deficits are Raising Interest Rates. But Other Factors are Lowering Them. – Medium
- Housing Is Already in a Slump. So It (Probably) Can’t Cause a Recession. – NY Times
- Democrats Want to Tax the Wealthy. Many Voters Agree. – NY Times
- Federal Government to Cancel Funds for California High-Speed Rail – WSJ
- Fed’s Williams says new economic outlook necessary for rate hikes – Reuters
- America’s Signature Mode of Transportation Is High-Cost Rail – HM Daily
- I owe how much? Americans shocked by impact of new tax law – AP
- Walmart Soars After Reporting Best Holiday Quarter In A Decade = Zero Hedge
Europe:
- UK will apply food tariffs in case of no deal, Michael Gove says – The Guardian
- Britain’s pro-EU carmakers say plants not at risk from ’Brexit’ (2015) – Reuters
- ECB Is Awake and Asleep at the Same Time – Bloomberg
- EU threatens retaliation if US imposes punitive car tariffs – FT
- Greece at risk of not getting euro zone cash as reforms lag: officials – Reuters
Asia:
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- One Man’s Desperate Battle To Free His Son From China’s Growing Police State – BuzzFeed
- U.S. Presses China for Stable Yuan as Trade Talks Progress, Sources Say – Bloomberg
- Western fears of party influence on Chinese companies are overblown – FT
- Trump Eases Off Hard Deadline for China Tariffs – WSJ
- Yellen Offers Caution as U.S. Pushes China to Keep Yuan Stable – Bloomberg
- In Central Asia’s forbidding highlands, a quiet newcomer: Chinese troops – Washington Post
- How Japan’s farmers and fishermen backed the leveraged loan boom – FT
- China will not surpass America any time soon – FT
- Big Trouble in China Housing: Govt Bans “Malicious” Price Cuts – Investing in Chinese Stocks
- Rabobank: China’s Borrowing Was Insane: In January It Borrowed 5% Of GDP In One Month – Zero Hedge
Trans-Tasman:
- Cashed-up retirees getting a refund for tax they never paid? We’ve hit peak rort – The Guardian
- Labor refers Paladin to auditor general over controversial $423m contract – The Guardian
- Michaelia Cash insists she provided AWU raids witness statement despite AFP saying she didn’t – ABC
- “I’m not corrupt, I’m just really bad at finances!” explains man in charge of nation’s finances – Chaser
- Scott Morrison is banking on an asylum seeker scare campaign that could backfire – ABC
- Adani’s ‘legal intimidation’ tactics against community groups a ‘threat to democracy’ – The Guardian
- Welfare suspensions increase by 40% under new compliance regime – The Guardian
- Andrew Robb quits China-linked firm before foreign interference law kicks in – The Age
- Australians spent $9.3bn on drugs in 2018, wastewater shows – The Guardian
- Approvals for foreign investment in Australia’s housing market plunge again – Business Insider
- Australians spent $9.3 billion on drugs in 2018 – The Guardian