Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- $416bn is lost from the developing world every year to tax avoidance and other illicit finanfial flows. – Citizens for Financial Justice
- Wealth gap widening for more than 70% of global population, researchers find – The Guardian
- Pension fights are a fundamental frontier of class struggle – Organizing Work
- Tesla says it will start making its futuristic semi this year — but only a few – Business Insider
- Facebook rolls out tool globally to clear third-party data – Techxplore
- Why economists worry that reversing climate change is hopeless: It will require a complete system change – Yahoo
- Who said what at Davos 2020 – CNBC
Americas:
- California’s economy gets nation’s No. 2 immigration boost – OC Register
- California Sued After Concealing $320 Billion In Annual State Payments – Zero Hedge
- USA: Consumer Confidence Jumps on Labor Market Strength – Breitbart
- Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in drinking water throughout US – USA Today
- U.S. President Donald Trump Delivers Remarks to the Nation’s Mayors on Transforming America’s Communities – CRWE World
- Higher Education Trends to Watch in 2020 in United States of America – Cred Force
Europe:
- Britain must accept EU standards if it wants to maintain free market access – Reuters
- Europe wants to get rid of 1 and 2 cents coins – Brussel Times
- Scottish Parliament votes to hold second independence referendum – Standard
- France to send warships to support Greece in Turkish standoff – The Guardian
- Scottish Parliament to keep flying EU flag After Brexit day – Inews
- Greece plans floating border barrier to stop migrants – AP News
Asia:
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- Confined at home, Chinese get creative to beat boredom – Oakland Press
- China Takes Steps to Speed Up Drug, Medical Supply Imports to Fight Virus – Yicai Global
- China to allow US health officials entry to study coronavirus – The Hill
- Gen. Spalding: UK’s Huawei 5G Deal Lets China ‘Influence Populations and Conduct Espionage’ Using Private Data – Breitbart
- Of course Huawei is getting an easy ride. The British establishment has been bought up by China – Telegraph
- Coronavirus: what’s it really like in China? – Wanderlong
Trans-Tasman:
- I hounded Ros Kelly until she resigned, but Bridget McKenzie’s sports rorts are worse John Hewson Columnist and former Liberal opposition leader – The SMH
- ‘Senseless cruelty’: peak welfare body pushes for $95-a-week increase to Newstart – The Guardian
- The first person in the world to have a Tesla Powerwall battery pays just 46 cents a day for power – Domain
- Industry funds want end to tax breaks that favour the rich – The Guardian
- Workers take safety into their own hands with new policy to walk off the job in bushfire smoke – The Age
- ‘New underclass’: Labor warns on Australia’s reliance on short-term migration – The Age
- Coronavirus Australia: Fury at Scott Morrison’s Christmas Island plan – News.com.au
- Citizen science project to monitor fire recovery of flora and fauna – ABC
- Our government is choosing to fail on climate and trying to make a virtue of it – The Guardian
- ‘Embarrassingly slow’: Australia has fourth slowest broadband in the OECD – New Daily
- Seventh Australian coronavirus case confirmed as government health advice ramped up – SBS
- Shameless – Scott Morrison defends the indefensible – The Monthly
- Morrison questions importance of global climate treaties, to treat symptoms of climate change – Renew Economy
- Avocado versus apple crates: Housing woes through time – Interest.co.nz
- NZ now has two ‘parties of infrastructure’ – Interest.co.nz