The Flood in the Darling 1890, W.C. Piguenit, 1895, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro, Markets & Investing
- The Decade in Which Everything Was Great But Felt Terrible – The Atlantic
- US, China and Germany profit most from global free trade, says WTO – DW
- From opioid deaths to student debt: A view of the 2010s economy in charts – Reuters
- Recession, robots and rockets: another roaring 20s for world markets? – Reuters
- How financial markets turned upside down in 2019 – Guardian
Asia & China
- China set to break key economic barrier despite trade war, but can it avoid the middle income trap? – SCMP
- With the phase one trade deal, China’s economic fortunes look more rosy for 2020. The same can’t be said about Japan’s – SCMP
- How the US trade war brings out China’s best hopes and worst fears for its economy – SCMP
- China Cuts Banks’ Reserve Ratio to Boost Economic Growth in 2020 – Bloomberg
- China’s central bank frees up US$115 billion to support growth – SCMP
- Casinos target low-income Chinese immigrants – DW
Americas & United States
Advertisement
- A new government study shows how Trump’s tariffs have backfired – Vox
- California will require solar panels on all new homes. That’s not necessarily a good thing. – Vox
- Trump says U.S.-China trade deal will be signed on January 15 – Reuters
- New Internal Documents Paint a Depressing Picture of the FDA’s Response to the Opioid Epidemic – Mother Jones
- Sanders report shows how millennials are “punished with crushing student debt and low-paying jobs” – Salon
Europe
- Rise of £5m-plus mortgage: low interest rates lure super-rich – Guardian
- Boris Johnson to rewrite spending rules in Spring budget – Irish Times
- House prices in Ireland decline for first time since 2012 – Irish Times
- National living wage to rise by 6.2% in April – BBC
- The Gilets Jaunes Have Changed How France Thinks About Strikes – Jacobin
Terra Specufestorus
- Why I didn’t donate to the Rural Fire Service this time around – Ninefax, Gitto…everyone should have a read of this…’the more I realise that, as part of their commitment to Smaller Government and lower taxes, governments have been quietly shifting the dividing line between what the government pays for and what should depend on charity’ – he has a point.
- Penalty rates reductions result in $50 million loss in wages – Ninefax
- Protecting Australian women from American jazz: the hidden aim of the 1927 tariff inquiry – Conversation
- Low wage growth to cost average worker $2,100 over four years, Labor warns – Guardian
- Tax reform supporters ‘not real’, says Costello –Ninefax
- Restoring Hope to the Australian Economy – Quadrant ……’For the quarter-century to the mid-2000s annual net overseas migration to Australia averaged 100,000, a rate already faster (in per capita terms) than every other developed country except Israel and Luxembourg. Yet since 2006 this has been ramped up to over 225,000, an effective doubling (even allowing for a definitional change by the ABS). The upshot has been depressed wage growth, heightened job insecurity, surging house prices, and increased pressure on infrastructure (roads and public transport, parking, schools, hospitals and so forth).’….
…and furthermore….
Advertisement
- Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ – CNBC
- The battery decade: How energy storage could revolutionize industries in the next 10 years CNBC
- Meet the scientist trying to travel back in time – CNN
- A Decade of Climate Science Confirmed What We Already Knew – Bloomberg…’we’ obviously doesn’t include the members of the Australian government.…
- Math Geeks Were In Their Glory in the 2010s – Bloomberg
- Suez, Panama, Istanbul next? The 45km canal dubbed ‘crazy’ – SCMP
- The ‘richest woman in Africa’ has assets frozen – SCMP
- Google to end ‘Double Irish, Dutch sandwich’ tax scheme – Reuters
- Only a China-Russia alliance could revive a ‘brain-dead’ Nato. But with that unlikely, the transatlantic alliance may be on its last legs – SCMP
- A new generational conflict: Will the 2020s be the “OK boomer” decade? – Salon