Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- This Stock Market Rally Has Everything, Except Investors – NY Times
- The incredible shrinking CEO – FT
- Modern Monetary Theory Isn’t Helping – Jacobinmag
- Jerome Powell Says the Concept of MMT Is ‘Just Wrong’ – Bloomberg
- Walmart Joins Amazon in Chase for Ad Dollars – WSJ
- Millennials Are Facing $1 Trillion in Debt – Bloomberg
- Warren Buffett says if you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500 in 1942, you’d have $51 million today – CNBC
- No, Data Is Not the New Oil – Wired
Americas:
- Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct While in Office – WSJ
- The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America – The Verge
- Powell says economic theory of unlimited borrowing supported by Ocasio-Cortez is just ’wrong’ – CNBC
- America Must Stand as a Bulwark Against Autocracy – The Atlantic
- Fed Chair Powell: ’The U.S. federal government is on an unsustainable fiscal path’ – Yahoo
- After decades of suburban sprawl, San Diego eyes big shift to dense development – LA Times
- US Home Price Growth Weakest Since 2012 – Zero Hedge
Europe:
- No-deal Brexit panic after ministers realise the UK doesn’t have the right pallets for exporting to the EU – Business Insider
- A second Brexit referendum is now essential – FT
- May offers MPs Brexit delay vote – BBC
- We need a political party that is tough on the causes of Brexit – Mainly Macro
- Do Two Troubled Banks Make One Good One? Germany May Find Out – NY Times
- Theresa May to impose agricultural tariffs in no-deal Brexit – FT
- VW to Invest Nearly $2 Billion In Ford Self-Driving Car Venture – WSJ
Asia:
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- Trump bets it all on friendship with Kim – CNN
- In Hanoi, Kim Jong Un and a culture clash with the White House press corps – Washington Post
- For Company and For Country: Boeing and US-China Relations – Macropolo
- Chinese tech firm claims digital plans for Mong La SEZ – Mmtimes
- Russia: US asks for advice on North Korea talks – AP News
- With 10-to-1 Leverage, Shadow Banks Fuel China’s Stock Boom – Bloomberg
- China Isn’t Having Enough Babies – NY Times
- Will the US Capitulate to China? – Project Syndicate
Trans-Tasman:
- What it’s like to work in an Amazon Australia warehouse – ABC
- When the polls are tight the Coalition pretends to care about climate – The Age
- ATO whistleblower faces six life sentences, roughly the same as Ivan Milat – The SMH
- The government’s contentious ParentsNext welfare program is having “devastating” impacts on participants – The Guardian
- ‘The waiting time alone is a killer’: 195,000 languish on social housing wait list – New Daily
- Helloworld Travel to sponsor Liberal Party fundraiser despite concerns it ‘is not a good look’ – ABC
- Sluice Gate – money laundering and real estate shape as an election issue – Michael West
- Why the RBA will cut rates in 2019 – Interest.co.nz
- First home buyers still strong in the market – Interest.co.nz
- Record trade deficit for a January – Interest.co.nz