Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Revealed: big oil’s profits since 1990 total nearly $2 trillion–that’s Chevron, BP, Shell, and Exxon only – The Guardian
- Fed chair on digital dollar plans: Facebook’s Libra a ‘wake-up call’ – Decrypt
- Tesla on autopilot had steered driver towards same barrier before fatal crash, NTSB says – ABC
- Private Credit, Increasingly Popular With Institutional Investors, Is ‘Fool’s Yield’ – Forbes
- Five Hedge Fund Heads Made More Than $1 Billion Each Last Year – Yahoo
Americas:
- Trump Budget Kills Student Loan Forgiveness Program, Complicates Subsidized Loans – IB Times
- Trump Cuts Scheduled Federal Pay Raise Citing “Serious Economic Conditions” in the Country – Slate
- Job openings slide to a two-year low as labor market gets tighter – CNBC
- Deficit spikes 25 percent through January – The Hill
- Reality Check: There is No Political Solution to Income Inequality – The American Conservative
- More than 70% of economists think a US recession will strike by the end of 2021 – Business Insider
- U.S. household debt tops $14 trillion and reaches new record. – Reuters
Europe:
- Norway’s $47BN Coastal Highway – Igorb News
- European Union and Vietnam Sign Free Trade Agreement – Bloomberg
- Poland to return 220 tonnes of waste to UK – Let’s Recycle
- Italy: Senate votes for far-right leader, Salvini, to face trial – BBC
- Greek 10-Year Bond Yield Makes Historic Dip Below 1% – NY Times
- Economy beats gloomy forecasts to be third-fastest growing in G7 – The Times
Asia:
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- The Coronavirus Will Not Cripple China’s Economy – Project Syndicate
- US sends surveillance planes over Taiwan Strait after Chinese war games ‘in show of support for Taipei’ – SCMP
- Rise in sulfur dioxide could be sign of mass cremations in Wuhan – Taiwan News
- Now with coronavirus, China’s numbers – like its provincial GDP figures – just do not add up – SCMP
- Peace Corps’ sudden decision to leave China stirs blowback – The Hill
- Coronavirus: hundreds in China sign petition calling for free speech – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Fossil-fuel industry doubles donations to major parties in four years, report shows – The Guardian
- How the hell does a pokie empire get $24m free spin from government? – The SMH
- Super giants funnel billions into fossil fuels, vote down climate push – The Age
- Sydney recycling plant to shut as market prices collapse, costs soar – The SMH
- Abolish stamp duty – impose a proper land tax instead – The SMH
- New $1 billion mine looks to solar, wind, batteries for 80% of power needs – Renew Economy
- Federal Government expected to extend travel ban from mainland China amid coronavirus threat – ABC
- Coalition warned robodebt scheme was unenforceable three years before it acted – The Guardian
- Govt to invest $175m to find one-third more temporary accommodation places – Interest.co.nz