Drought Skeleton, 1953, Sidney Nolan, Art Gallery of NSW
Asia & China
- Mysterious Bags of Cash Trigger Major Hong Kong Protest Arrests – Bloomberg
- Did Xi surrender to Trump? China struggles to silence chatter – Nikkei Asian Review
- China’s hidden debt risks economic ‘chain reaction’ – Nikkei Asian Review
- China’s tech companies have had a rough 2019 but will the US be the long-term loser amid ongoing stand-off? – SCMP
UK & Europe
- Realpolitik for post-Brexit Britain – FT.com
- The New Right revolution – New Statesman
- France’s Pension Riots Are a Warning to the World – Bloomberg
- Spain busts Chinese gang using ‘slaves’ to grow marijuana – SCMP
US & Americas
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- More Americans are working into old age – CBS
- Half of U.S. workers didn’t get a pay raise this year – CBS
- Watch out, millennials — Generation Z is poised to dominate homeownership – Market Watch
- Trade war fears spook US policymakers into thinking China could weaponise drug exports – SCMP
- Trump’s Economy Had a Good Year, Even If He Didn’t – Bloomberg
Terra Specufestorus
- Australia: Scott Morrison apologizes for vacation at crisis time – DW
- Vital Signs: Australia’s nation-building opportunity held hostage by the deficit daleks – The Conversation
- Exploding MYEFO Myths: no trickle down to households from export boom – Michael West
- Reclaiming the ideas of economics: Leadership – Pearls & Irritations
- Can we trust politicians? And newspapers? – Pearls & Irritations
Macro & Markets
- Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler finalize merger to create fourth-largest automaker – DW
- Bank of England admits press briefing feeds hacked with hedge funds given early access – Straits Times
- Central Bankers Are Starting to Get a Little Desperate – Bloomberg
- ‘The new normal’: no recession but high underemployment and flat household incomes – Guardian
- Central Banks Want New Powers, But at What Cost? – Bloomberg
- Debt in developing economies rises to record $55tn – Guardian
- The World Bank warns a ‘wave of debt’ could swamp global economy – ABC
- America’s strategic China blunder – Pearls & Irritations
- How home value shocks drive spending – VoxEU
- Lessons from the China-US trade truce – Bruegel
…and furthermore…
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- Nitrite-free meats have lower cancer risk, study suggests – Irish Times
- The End of Econ Blogging’s Golden Age – Bloomberg
- How much should bosses be paid? – BBC…..in many large corporate bureaucracies and the public sector the question must surely be ‘what do bosses actually do?’
- Commercialising Christmas has a long and complicated history – FT.com