Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Davos Manifesto: Towards a better kind of capitalism – WE Forum
- Millennials weren’t the only ones gutted by the recession. Gen X has never recovered. – VOX
- Digital Currencies to Soar in Coming Decade, Predicts Deutsche Bank – Be In Crypto
- What Kind of Capitalism Do We Want? – Project Syndicate
- Year-end repo rates surge despite Fed’s efforts to ease the strain – FT
- Moody’s Downgrades Outlook for Global Banks – Gold Silver Bitcoin
Americas:
- Trucking “bloodbath”: 1,000 truck drivers lose jobs in November – Business Insider
- America’s fastest growing jobs don’t pay a living wage – The Week
- U.S. Payroll Gain of 266,000 Trounces Forecasts as Wages Heat Up – Yahoo
- Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages have not come true – Axios
- Mexico’s Pemex announces discovery of ‘giant’ crude oil deposit – Reuters
- Job Market Surges As Employers Add 266,000 Jobs In November – NPR
- Unemployment is low only because ‘involuntary’ part-time work is high – Business Insider
- U.S. Jobs Trounce Forecasts With 266,000 Gain as Wages Heat Up – Bloomberg
- Canada sheds 71,000 jobs in November – Yahoo
- Canada loses 71,200 jobs in biggest employment drop in decade – Financial Post
- Small business owners raise wages in November – Yahoo
Europe:
- France bans two US pesticides – Phys.org
- German industry slump sparks renewed economic growth fears – Reuters
- German Industrial Production Crashes By Most In A Decade – Zero Hedge
- EU finance ministers agreed to block Libra – Forex Brokers
- Nearly half of Britons would let Hongkongers with British passports live in UK, survey finds – SCMP
Asia:
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- Trump calls for World Bank to stop lending money to China – CopyLeft
- Donald Trump calls for World Bank to halt all China lending – The Guardian
- ‘Parasite singles’: why young Japanese aren’t getting married – France24
- China to exempt tax on US soybeans based on needs – Global Times
- Let’s call out Xi Jinping as the dictator that he is – Taiwan News
- Why Leftists Should Support Hong Kong’s Fight for Democratic Rights – Jacobin Mag
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia economy growth is at below average – Igorb News
- Australia’s civil rights rating downgraded as report finds world becoming less free – The Guardian
- Almost two-thirds of Australians support a national target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 – 7News
- ‘It’s demoralising’: Firefighters warn Canberra more action needed on climate change and resourcing – SBS
- Firefighters frustrated after water stolen from tanks at their station south of Brisbane – ABC
- Warning on millions of Australians who struggle to work more hours – Brisbane Times
- Coalition claims it will meet 2030 emissions target – but only by using accounting loophole – The Guardian
- How big are the fires burning on the east coast of Australia? Interactive map – The Guardian
- Inside the public service shakeup: what it really says about Morrison’s Government – ABC
- The epic failure at the root of Australia’s maths problem – ABC
- Boosting competition a ‘positive externality’ of RBNZ capital review – Interest.co.nz