Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The Race For the Title of World’s Greatest Welfare Bum: Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk – Bloomberg
- Five Hedge Fund Heads Made More Than $1 Billion Each Last Year – Yahoo
- Crypto, the stabiliser? – Thoughts on how cryptocurrency has the potential to build foundations for a stable global economy. – Medium
- Boeing scores no January orders for first time since 1962 – Straits Times
- Living in Inequality, Dying in Despair – Inequality.org
Americas:
- U.S. household debt tops $14 trillion and reaches new record. – Reuters
- Real pay data show Trump’s ‘blue collar boom’ is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts – Ponderwall
- Inflation in the US economy has reached its highest level since 2018 – BeInCrypto
- Taxation, How it Could Change American Hegemony and the Global Economy As We Know it – The New Voice
- Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? – New Yorker
- The US actually created fewer jobs in 2018 and 2019 than we thought – Business Insider
- Americans say they feel the current economy is the best since the late 1990s – Stamford Advocate
Europe:
- European shares hit record high as rate of new coronavirus cases slow – Reuters
- Greece and Spain meet over bilateral issues and Turkish intransigence – Greek City Times
- Swiss machines used to spy on governments for decades – BBC
- Germany may face early Merkel exit – Reuters
- Poland gives EU unlikely Vietnamese trade boost – DW
- Germany Is One of the Biggest Brexit Losers – Bloomberg
Asia:
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- Japan is in economic recession – Economo
- China says coronavirus epidemic won’t change its economic growth trend – CGTN
- Alibaba offers $2.86 billion in loans to firms hit by coronavirus outbreak – Reuters
- India readying US$2.6 billion US naval helicopter deal ahead of Trump trip – Channel News Asia
- The Coronavirus Will Not Cripple China’s Economy – Project Syndicate
- China’s Xi Makes Rare Appearance Amid Virus Crisis – BBC
Trans-Tasman:
- Immigration from Australia to Canada – Igorb News
- Coalition’s “miracle” election win claim under fire as more rorts surface – Michael West
- Another $270 million Coalition pork barrel rolls into regional towns, the Regional Growth Fund. – Michael West
- Coalition dished out $636m in grants in six months before 2019 election – The Guardian
- A 60% rise in industrial emissions points to failure of Coalition’s ‘safeguard mechanism – The Guardian
- Matt Canavan leaves two properties worth more than $1m off 2019 declaration of interests – The Guardian
- Closing the Gap report shows only two out of seven targets on track as PM calls for new approach – SBS
- New Resources Minister calls for more coal, gas and uranium exports – The SMH
- NSW Government decision to lift embargo on flood plain harvesting enrages downstream communities – ABC
- Coronavirus update: Leading health expert’s alarming prediction if virus isn’t quickly contained – 7 News
- Upping supply not the silver bullet to solving NZ’s housing woes – Interest.co.nz