Summer in the You Beaut Country, John Olsen, 1962, National Gallery of Victoria
Macro & Markets
- China says it is in close touch with U.S. on trade deal signing ceremony – Reuters
- China treads warily on US trade deal text to keep other partners on side – SCMP
- Trump Won’t Be Able to Let China Slide on Trade Deal – Bloomberg
- Lessons from the China-US trade truce – Bruegel
- Trade policy after three years of populism – Voxeu
Asia
- Have anti-government protests cooked Hong Kong’s financial goose? – SCMP
- 2020 look ahead: Japan’s economy is in trouble – Nikkei Asian Review
- East Asian Powerhouses Pledge To Uphold Free Trade – Caixin
- China Vows to Improve Bond Handling as Defaults Hit Record – Caixin
- China sails new aircraft carrier through Taiwan Strait – DW
- Why Chinese ‘rescues’ of western factories can turn sour for workers – Guardian
- Trump Will Make China Great Again – Project-Syndicate, Roubini
Americas
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- How Close Did Russia Really Come to Hacking the 2016 Election? – Politico
- Middle class incomes have fallen behind and not set to catch up says CBO – Brookings
- Trump shakedowns are threatening two key US alliances in Asia – Brookings
- Pentagon Warns Military Personnel Against At-Home DNA Tests – NY Times
- Top 1.0% of earners see wages up 157.8% since 1979 – EPI
- How Crisco Toppled Lard – and Made Americans Believers in Industrial food – Naked Capitalism
- The problem with world trade is not tariffs, but too much globalisation. Can Elizabeth Warren fix it? – SCMP
- How Trump Has Betrayed the Working Class – Robert Reich
- Argentina chooses right man at right time to reignite the economy – Guardian
Europe
- Russia ‘successfully tests’ its unplugged internet – BBC
- Putin’s Grand Gas Project Makes Sense Now – Bloomberg
- Central Europe’s authoritarians show where an unleashed Boris Johnson could lead Britain – New Statesman
Terra Specufestor
- Our economy is enjoying global tail winds, not head winds as Frydenberg tells us. – Pearls & Irritations, Mungo Maccallum
- The trolls at The Australian and SmoKo – Pearls & Irritations, Mungo Maccallum
- ATO says multinationals disputing billions in tax bills amid crackdown on profit shifting – ABC
- Rise of the machines: Is trust in payroll software disastrous? – Ninefax
- Dog bites man: also, high income earners vote LNP – John Quiggin
- Westpac persuaded its customers to join two super funds that are ‘among Australia’s worst’ – Guardian
- Secrets and Lies: how franking credits stole the tax bonanza – Michael West
- Australian labour market – tepid performance in November – Bill Mitchell
…and furthermore…
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- Deflating a Bubble Before It Busts Would Be Huge – Bloomberg
- The gender gap in self-promotion – Voxeu
- Pensions and intra-generational equity: A proposed solution – Voxeu
- Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality? – Aeon
- Consciousness is real – Aeon
- If Ukraine Is Impeachable, What’s Afghanistan? – DefenseOne
- Is 3D printing the future of battery design? – Technology Review
- The US government has approved funds for geoengineering research – Technology Review
- What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane – The Atlantic
- Stop Believing in Free Shipping – The Atlantic
- Can governments ever run out of money? – RWER
- Too big to fail? Tech’s decade of scale and impunity – Guardian
- Escaping the Inequality-Data Dark Ages – Project-Syndicate, Piketty