Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – NY Times
- Facebook, Tesla and Netflix Stocks Prove Investors Are Jumpy – Be In Crypto
- Central Bankers Have Difficult Road to Walk – YouTube
- Finland’s financial watchdog probes Nokia’s October share crash – Yle
- Alternatives Like Bitcoin Becoming Necessary as World Debt Reaches Record $253 Trillion – Be In Crypto
- Why Iran’s Economy Has Not Collapsed Amid U.S. Sanctions And ‘Maximum Pressure’ – NPR
- ‘World Economy Would Collapse’ If City of London Stopped Laundering Money, Says HSBC Whistleblower – Sputnik News
- One astounding chart shows how the death of the union has made economic inequality worse – Business Insider
- U.S. and European Stocks Hit Records After China Data Boost – Stock Market News
Americas:
- The Americans dying because they can’t afford medical care – The Guardian
- Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty And Its Homeless Shelters Are Full – The Atlantic
- 12-time champion forecaster sees U.S. economy easing in 2020 – MarketWatch
- Trump Tax Cut Hands $32 Billion Windfall to America’s Top Banks – Bloomberg
- The Silicon Valley Economy Is Here. And It’s a Nightmare. – New Republic
- Steve Bannon: Trump has brought America together on the economy – YouTube
- Running United State’s health system is four times as costly as Canada’s – North99
Europe:
- The EU will vote to force all smartphones to adopt USB-C – XDA Developers
- Facial recognition: EU considers ban of up to five years – BBC
- EU cuts pre-accession aid to Turkey by 75% – DW
- Germany is first once again to publish it’s annual GDP data. €3.4 trillion for 2019 – Europa
- Borrell suggests EU military mission to protect cease-fire in Libya – Politico
- Harry and Meghan to lose royal funds and drop HRH titles from spring – Sky
- UK PM Johnson to impose new restrictions on low-skilled migrants post-Brexit: Telegraph – Reuters
- United Kingdom to embark on ‘agricultural revolution’ in break from EU farm subsidies – Science Mag
Asia:
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- China’s economy grows 6.1 per cent in 2019, the slowest rate in 29 years – Igorb News
- China posts weakest growth in 29 years as trade war bites, but ends 2019 on better note – Reuters
- China Anger After Woman Drives into Forbidden City – BBC
- What India shutdowns ruling means for journalists – CPJ
- Are the ‘good times’ over for China’s under pressure middle class? – SCMP
- China coronavirus: at least three suspected cases in Shenzhen – SCMP
- China Keeps Arresting Hong Kong Protesters for ‘Soliciting Prostitution’ – Vice
Trans-Tasman:
- The Firefighter whose denunciation of Australias Prime Minister made him a folk hero. – New Yorker
- Behind the smokescreen, the Coalition’s stance on climate change hasn’t changed at all – The Guardian
- Billion dollar NSW privatisation plan delayed by bushfire crisis – The SMH
- Australians hit the bars as they start enjoying 24-hour drinking again after ministers scrapped Sydney’s strict ‘anti-fun’ licensing laws – Daily Mail
- Severe sunburn sees more than one child a week admitted to WA hospitals – WA
- Inside the race to protect 250 threatened species hit by bushfire – ABC
- Anthony Albanese says Labor’s 45% emissions reduction target ‘a mistake’, will not commit to stronger targets than the Coalition – The Guardian
- Almost half of millennials are convinced WWIII will happen in their lifetime, study finds – ABC
- Victoria’s native wildlife at risk of starving to death unless government drops food, vets say – ABC
- Fake driver licence costs migrant his Australian citizenship – SBS
- Scott Morrison’s Pentecostal beliefs have affected Liberal Party policies – Independent Australia
- The ‘OK boomer’ mentality needs to go – Interest.co.nz