Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Economic Inequality Through the Looking Class – Medium
- Potential US Dollar Digital Currency Being Examined by Federal Reserve Governor – Be In Crypto
- Fedcoin? The U.S. central bank is looking into it – Reuters
- 7-Eleven is the next retailer to test cashierless stores – Tech Crunch
- Global car sales hit the brakes, mass layoffs – Wheels Joint
Americas:
- ADP Employment Data Shows Biggest Job Gain Since 2015 – Zero Hedge
- US Capitalist Housing System Leaves 1.5 Million Students Homeless – Sputnik News
- U.S. trade deficit narrows in 2019 for first time in six years – Reuters
- Trump Didn’t Make This Economy – The Atlantic
- Private sector job growth blows past Wall Street’s expectations in January with 291,000 added – Fox Business
- Record economic optimism under Trump, better than Reagan, Clinton, or Obama – Washington Examiner
Europe:
- Autonomous vehicle tech completes 230-mile self-navigated journey in UK – Nuadox
- EU’s CO2 emissions fall 12% in 2019 as wind and solar surpass coal – Renewables Now
- Spain named healthiest country in the world – WeForum
- France to Britain: No fish for finance deal – Reuters
- About 500,000 EU citizens yet to apply for UK residency after Brexit – Reuters
- German state leader quits over far right backing – BBC
- Merkel demands reversal of far right-backed vote – BBC
Asia:
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- China Energy Executives Braced For 25% Fall In Domestic Oil Demand – Stock Market News
- China Cuts U.S. Import Tariffs – Stock Market News
- China Will Cut Tariffs In Half On $75 Billion Of U.S. Products – NPR
- China regulator asks banks to weigh coronavirus impact on borrowers – Straits Times
- China’s coronavirus is not remotely under control – Telegraph
- Chinese doctor arrested for blowing whistle on coronavirus dies of killer disease – Daily Star
Trans-Tasman:
- Government’s $150 million female sports program funnelled into swimming pools for marginal Coalition seats – ABC
- Coalition quietly spent another $150m sports grant fund during election campaign – The Guardian
- Canberra electricity prices set to fall, thanks to 100% renewables plan – Renew Economy
- Adam Bandt: the Greens must provide hope there is an exit strategy from climate catastrophe – The Guardian
- New cracks at Mascot Towers could lead to falling bricks, confidential memo reveals – ABC
- Dozens of farm workers found living in five-bedroom building in Latrobe in Tasmania’s north – ABC
- If we move on from the sports grants now as the Coalition wants, we tolerate corruption – The Guardian
- Adani agrees to plead guilty for giving ‘false or misleading documents to an administering authority’ – ABC
- New CSIRO, AEMO study confirms wind, solar and storage beat coal, gas and nuclear – Renew Economy
- $26 million of unsold KiwiBuild houses on Govt’s books – Interest.co.nz