Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Banks and government bonds: A love story – VoxEU
- Political information in the age of the internet – VoxEU
- The Demonization of Journalists Must End – Project-Syndicate
- Central Banks Face a Year of Mounting Challenges – Project-Syndicate
- The Fed Can’t Reverse the Decline of Financialization and Globalization – Charles Hugh Smith
- Internet shutdowns cost the global economy $8 billion last year, report says – CNN
- Did Richard Branson just call Bitcoin a ‘get-rich-quick scheme’? – Coin Rivet
Americas:
- Donald Trump’s tariffs cost US companies US$46 billion to date, trade war data shows – SCMP
- Could the U.S. economy be experiencing a hidden tech-driven productivity revolution? – Bruegel
- Trade risks easing may mean bluer sky for 2020: Fed officials – Reuters
- California Looks to Launch Its Own Prescription-Drug Label – WSJ
- Most Americans Say There Is Too Much Economic Inequality in the U.S., but Fewer Than Half Call it a Top Priority – Pew Social Trends
- How the Welfare State Inadvertently Helped Ruin Black Communities – Daily Bell
- The Economic Benefits of Improved Infrastructure Permitting – White House
Europe:
- A visit to Germany’s only remaining aluminum factory – DW
- Central bank chief on why Russia’s economy is set to grow – Igorb News
- UK ban on US chlorinated chicken ‘to continue after Brexit’ – BBC
- Britons by far the worst in Europe at foreign languages – The Times
- The EU stands united behind Greece in crisis with Turkey – Euractiv
- UK accused of ‘behaving like cowboys’ over EU database copying – The Guardian
Asia:
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- Surging popularity of Nissan, Honda fails to halt 7.5 per cent slump in China’s car sales in 2019 as slowing economy deters buyers – SCMP
- Japan gas operators sell surplus LNG to China in dribs and drabs – Nikkei
- Uyghurs & Other Muslim Minorities Forced into Labor Programs to Work in Chinese Factories – Democracy Now
- ‘Taiwan Cannot Become Like Hong Kong’: A Fresh Challenge to China – WSJ
- How Taiwan’s Tsai stayed one step ahead – BBC
- China’s Actions in Xinjiang May Amount to ‘Crimes Against Humanity,’ Says US Rights Report – RFA
Trans-Tasman:
- ‘Like New York after Sandy’: Bushfires a ‘wake-up call’ for power grid – Ninefax
- Black Friday leads November retail sales rebound, with Christmas spending figures eagerly awaited – ABC
- Houses are cracking in the dry, hot weather, but when should you start to worry? – ABC
- Australia suffers tourism blow from bushfires and air quality as US Department of State updates travel advisory – ABC
- McWilliam’s Wines goes into administration after 141 years as family business – ABC
- Why Australia Is Burning – Project-Syndicate
- ‘Dangerous, misinformation’: News Corp employee’s fire coverage email – Ninefax
- Scott Morrison says ‘conflation’ of bushfires and climate policy ‘very disappointing’ – The Guardian