Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Stock futures rise in overnight trading following a 4-week losing streak – CNBC
- EV Owners Spend Half As Much On Maintenance – Clean Technica
- Google’s CEO says the future of work involves a ‘hybrid model’ and that the company is already reconfiguring its offices for employee ‘on-sites’ – Business Insider
- The next crisis may start by commercial mortgage-backed securities – Economo
Americas:
- NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017 – AP News
- 18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records – NY Times
- With classroom time reduced, U.S. college students demand tuition cuts – Reuters
- Poll: Half of Americans who lost their job due to the coronavirus pandemic still don’t have one – VOX
- Joe Biden’s Economic Plan: Save the Middle Class to Save America – Investopedia
- Big companies are swallowing up smaller ones. Why that’s not good for the economy – LA Times
Europe:
- European airlines cutting fares to woo back passengers – Tech Xplore
- Geneva Voters Agree to $25 Minimum Hourly Wage – Bloomberg
- Switzerland firmly rejects end of free movement with EU – projection – Bloomberg
- French Fathers Will Now Get Double the Paternity Leave – Vogue
- Belarus opposition holds ‘people’s inauguration’ protest – Bangkok Post
- Macron accuses Lebanon’s leaders of ‘betrayal’ for failures – Aljazeera
Asia:
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- Chinese industrial companies’ profits rose for the fourth month in a row – Finances Herald
- Why India Needs to Worry About Post-COVID Care – BBC
- Sri Lanka Returns “Hazardous Waste” to UK – BBC
- Who Runs Hong Kong: Party faithful shipped in to carry out Beijing’s will – The Guardian
- ‘Taiwan is Taiwan’: China name dispute moves from birds to climate change – Reuters
- China Will Learn the Hard Way That Australians Can’t Be Shamed – NY Times
Trans-Tasman:
- Top economists back boosts to JobSeeker and social housing over tax cuts in pre-budget poll – The Conversation
- Green leader Adam Bandt says coal and gas should be phased out by 2030 – The SMH
- Michael Pascoe: Government steps up its multibillion-dollar grants rorting – New Daily
- Delay in tax evasion crackdown is costing the taxpayer billions – The Guardian
- Australian wind and solar farms could help Germany phase out its use of coal under a major export deal which also promises to create thousands of new jobs. – The Age
- Back to poverty – The Monthly
- ‘We should not pretend everybody is suffering equally’: Covid hits Australia’s poor the hardest – The Guardian
- Federal Government warned about rising risk of homelessness from COVID-19 – ABC
- Shifting the blame: Why you will be responsible for bad business behaviour – ABC
- Judith Collins expects to lose – she may even be looking forward to it – Interest.co.nz