Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Bitcoin showed higher returns than both the S&P 500 and gold in 2019 – Sfox
- The Concept of a U.S Dollar Collapse Goes Mainstream – Traders Magazine
- Market Madness: How the S&P made its 10-year comeback – OC Register
- Repo Panic Returns As Fed Injects $99BN In Liquidity, Including First Oversubscribed Term Repo In Three Weeks – Zero Hedge
- The Coal Industry Is In Serious Trouble – Seeking Alpha
- These are the risks facing the stock market in 2020 – Igorb News
- Dow futures set to edge higher as Middle East fears recede – CNBC
- Why the U.S. dollar doesn’t always act like a haven when geopolitical tensions rise – Market Watch
- The Decade of Debt: big deals, bigger risk – Reuters
- The Epic Stock Market Crash of 2020 Is Officially Here – CNN
Americas:
- For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity – Star Tribune
- The U.S. Spends $2,500 Per Person on Health Care Administrative Costs. Canada Spends $550. Here’s Why – Time
- Opinion: There’s likely no repairing the tattered U.S. milk industry – Investigate Midwest
- How Trump’s Trade War Is Making Lobbyists Rich And Slamming Small Businesses – Pro Publica
- U.S. trade deficit sinks 8% to 3-year low of $43.1 billion in November amid China trade war – Market Watch
- Fed Monetizes $4.1 Billion In Debt Sold Just Days Earlier – Fiatisan
- Brookings Institution advocates for land value tax – Brookings
- Two Years Later: What Has Trump’s Tax Law Delivered? – Capital and Main
- US manufacturing contracts to lowest level since 2009 – The Hill
Europe:
- UK scam broker falls on the radar of the FCA – Forex Review
- France warns U.S. against digital tax retaliation – Reuters
- Bruno Le Maire: France’s pension reform will accelerate economic growth – Economo
- Russia has begun to test its own internal internet – Igorb News
- Europeans shift troops from Iraq, warn fight against Islamic State is imperiled because of U.S. actions – Washington Post
- EU supports Morocco with new programs worth €389 million – Brussels Times
Asia:
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- China’s YiWu: Business Models You’ve Never Even Heard of – Global Research
- ‘Children of Indian citizens not to go to detention centres’ – Yuv News
- India could become a $5 trillion economy over the next 5 years – Igorb News
- Indonesia deploys fighter jets in stand-off with China – Reuters
- Two more Chinese nationals arrested for taking photos at US Navy base – SCMP
- CCP tried to threaten Taiwan by weaponizing tourism, but it didn’t work – QZ
Trans-Tasman:
- How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate – NY Times…Uncle Rupert’s being naughty…
- Australia’s richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has been revealed as a $4.5 million donor of a rightwing thinktank that promotes climate science skepticism – The Guardian
- Bots and trolls spread false arson claims in Australian fires ‘disinformation campaign’ – The Guardian
- Australia’s leaders unmoved on climate action after devastating bushfires – Globe & Mail
- Morrison acts firmly on Iran threat by booking 3 week holiday cruise – Chaser
- Ross Garnaut’s climate change prophecy is coming true and it’s going to cost Australia billions, experts warn – ABC
- Hazard reduction burns are ‘not the panacea’: RFS boss – The SMH
- Scott Morrison’s biggest failure in the bushfire crisis: an inability to deliver collective action – The Conversation
- Aussie firm’s ‘no-work Wednesday’ concept goes global – ABC
- QV says property market ends the year ‘with a flourish’ – Interest.co.nz
- We have our own special drought – houses for sale – Interest.co.nz
- How ownership concentration is happening, and why it matters – Interest.co.nz