Willunga Landscape, Horace Trenerry, 1947, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- Hedge Funds Play Tug-of-War With the Volatile Australian Dollar – Bloomberg
- One Weird Trick for Avoiding Bad Chinese Bonds – Bloomberg
- Brazilian mine tragedy will not be the last tailings dam disaster – Reuters, Home
- China’s coal imports surge, but prices tell a better story – Reuters, Russell
- ‘Like pulling teeth’: In trade talks, China and US said to be far apart on structural changes by Beijing – SCMP
- US trade demands have China fearful of ‘color revolutions’ – Nikkei Asian Review
- U.S.-China Trade Talks Set to Wrap Up With Few Signs of Progress – Bloomberg
- Renewable energy will be world’s main power source by 2040, says BP – Guardian
Asia
- In China, government policies tell us more about the economy than GDP numbers – SCMP
- Chongqing battles rising unemployment as China’s traditional industrial base follows nationwide slump – SCMP
- Plans for first Chinese solar power station in space revealed – Nine
- Singapore reports lowest GDP growth in two years as trade ministry warns manufacturers may be vulnerable – SCMP
- China’s housing glut casts pall over the economy – Nikkei Asian Review
- Singapore’s full-year growth slows to 3.2% as fourth quarter misses mark – Business Times
- China’s inflation slows in January, potentially pushing officials to step in, says economist – CNBC
- Drip. Asia’s Liquidity Taps Start to Gurgle – Bloomberg
- Chinese innovation: threat or opportunity? – China Economic Review
Europe
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- Europe’s Middle Class Is Shrinking. Spain Bears Much of the Pain. – NY Times
- Official lending in the euro area: Lessons for debt sustainability – VoxEU
- Europe, Please Wake Up – Project-Syndicate, Soros
- A Survival Kit for the City of London – Project-Syndicate, Eichengreen
- Russia’s growth problem – Bruegel
- The higher yield on Italian government securities is becoming a burden for the real economy – Bruegel
- Germany avoids recession with flat final 2018 quarter – DW
- The A380 dream crash-lands – DW
- EU looks to add Saudi Arabia to ‘dirty-money’ blacklist – DW
- Europe’s Biggest Economy Is Stuck in Limbo – Bloomberg, Bershidsky
- Europe Just Got a Bad Omen for the Economy in 2019 – Bloomberg
Americas
- These Are the Signs a U.S. Recession May Be Coming – Bloomberg
- When the dollar appreciates, credit tightens for US corporates – VoxEU
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accidentally exposes the left’s big lie – Washington Post
- How the US has hidden its empire – Guardian
- Wage Stagnation Is One Disease With Many Causes – Bloomberg, Smith
- Amazon paid no federal taxes in the US despite earning more than $16 billion profit – NZ Herald
- Trump poised to declare emergency as Congress approves shutdown deal – Guardian
- US-China trade talks: Steven Mnuchin positive after ‘productive meetings’ – SCMP
Terra Specufestor
- Indonesia-Australia to sign free trade agreement – Nine
- How Australia’s Top Property Billionaire Is Riding Out the Slump – Bloomberg
- Retailers surprised to be caught up in royal commission’s car dealer crackdown – ABC
- ASIC threatens maximum jail terms of 15 years and much steeper fines for convicted white-collar criminals – ABC…talking the talk…
- Domain takes a $178m hit on tumbling property market as new listings dry up – ABC
- One-third of Australians think banks do nothing for the greater public good – The Conversation
- Super funds survive $3 billion insurance push after Coalition-Greens deal – Nine
- Why NZ can’t afford to mess with China – NZ Herald
- What the government thinks you’re worth – The Monthly
…and furthermore…
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- Russian stocks dividends: you’re simply the best, better than all the rest – BNE Intellinews
- How Can We Tax Footloose Multinationals? – Project-Syndicate, Stiglitz
- Carmageddon: The future is catching up with the motor giants – Spectator
- Vital Signs: when watchdogs become pets – or the problem of ‘regulatory capture’ – The Conversation
- Is Socialism Still An Effective Political Bogeyman? – FiveThirtyEight
- Science and Subterfuge in Economics – Project-Syndicate
- What Will Succeed GDP? – Project-Syndicate, Coyle
- The fashion models struggling with a life of debt – BBC
- Why living experimentally beats taking big bets – FT.com
- JP Morgan is rolling out the first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform payments business – CNBC
- Fixing the Lopsided Economics of Workplace Harassment – Bloomberg
- Did your ex permanently ruin a song for you? Blame your brain – LA Times
- A Political Economist on the End of the Age of Objectivity – New Yorker
- Levi Strauss plans initial public offering – CBS
- China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Report Says – Bloomberg…and how much Australian health data is processed via China?…