Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Boeing CEO Fired – ABCNews
- Tesla stock reaches $420, more than a year after Musk’s ‘funding secured’ tweet – CNBC
- Short-Term Thinking Is Poisoning American Business – Wall Street analysts dissect quarterly earnings like never before. 78% of executives at public companies said that they would sacrifice long-term value for a short-term lift in share price. – NYT
- Disruptive decade: Ten things the teen years brought world markets – Reuters
Americas:
- Kim Jong Un Wants Trump To Win In 2020, Former White House Adviser Says: ‘All The Bad Guys Want Trump To Win’ – Newsweek
- House counsel suggests Trump could be impeached again – Politico
- GM, Ford and others cut thousands of jobs and closed factories to save billions in 2019 – CNBC
- Half of U.S. workers didn’t get a boost in pay this year despite the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, a new survey has found. – CBS
- Profitability of Automakers Drops to 10-Year Low – Spotlightmetal
Europe:
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- Three former executives of a French telecommunications giant have been found guilty of creating a corporate culture so toxic that 35 of their employees were driven to suicide – SMH
- The economic impact of Brexit tariffs only tells us half the story – Cityam
- France to Raise Pollution Tax on SUVs and Trucks to $22,240 – Bloomberg
- Putin’s new Crimea rail link condemned by EU – Reuters
- Venice faces new exceptional flooding, but below peak – AP
Asia:
- China orders Christians to rewrite the Bible for the era of President Xi – Dailystar
- Students and teachers targeted in new Chinese rules to stamp out spying – SCMP
- Calling Trump’s Space Force a Violation of Global Consensus, China Condemns US ‘Weaponization of Outer Space’ – Commondreams
- China and Japan should not see each other as a threat, Xi Jinping tells Shinzo Abe – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘Out of control’: Volunteer firefighters demand income support, equipment | The president of the body representing thousands of volunteer firefighters is demanding immediate income support and masks for firefighters, warning the situation is now “out of control”. – The Age
- Bushfire devastates Adelaide Hills vineyards, with around one-third wiped out – ABC
- Australia’s bushfires have exposed its leaders’ failings – FT.com
- Australian report shows private health insurance rising faster than house prices – 7News
- South Australia’s clean-energy shift brings lowest power prices on national grid, audit finds – For first time, state has cheaper wholesale power than rest of country for consecutive months – Guardian
- Scott Morrison excitedly awaiting coal in his stocking this Christmas – Chaser
…and furthermore…
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- How to lose friends and influence the security of your nation – Ninefax, Clive Hamilton
- The marvel of the human dad – Aeon