Macro & Markets
- Past epidemics raised income inequality & hurt employment prospects of the lower educated, while scarcely affecting those with advanced degrees – VOXEU
- Changes to the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting panel will make the U.S. central bank even less likely to tighten monetary policy in the new year – Bloomberg
- Most people seem to assume that #COVID19 will be dispatched quickly sometime in 2021. It almost certainly won’t be – Project Syndicate
Americas
- U.S. confirms first case of the new Covid strain discovered in UK – CNBC
- Giuliani reveals Trump campaign is filing new Supreme Court bid to try to overturn election result – The Independent (the desperation continues…)
- Trump Is Set To Violate Palm Beach Deal By Staying Too Long At Mar-A-Lago. Again. – HuffPost
- Operation Warp Speed at a crawl: Adequately vaccinating Americans will take 10 years at current pace – NBC (shocked and stunned its not working!)
- The U.S. needs to vaccinate 3 million people per day to hit Covid vaccination goal, doctor says – CNBC
- Fed Judge Says ‘Criminal’ Trump Only Pardons Republicans, Child Murderer Or Turkey – LawandCrime
- Argentina Legalizes Abortion, a Milestone in a Conservative Region – NYT
Asia
- Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, says he plans to make coronavirus measures mandatory for the first time – The Age
- Overworked Japanese nurses quitting as they face discrimination from neighbours over Covid – Telegraph
- Wuhan had ‘10 times as many’ Covid infections than originally reported – Independent
- Hong Kongers who tried to flee to Taiwan jailed in China for up to 3 years – CNN
- $332 million sale of the U.S. consulate staff compound in Hong Kong has been stymied by China – Bloomberg
Europe and Middle East
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- Greek Orthodox Priest asks mask-less faithful to leave during Christmas Church Service – GreekCity
- The UK has reported another 53,135 cases of coronavirus, the highest recorded daily total since the pandemic began – Skynews
- Iraqi interpreters ‘stalked by death squads’ for helping the British– BBC
- Stop saying new Covid-19 strain ‘originated in the UK,’ cries ex-MEP who routinely called the virus ‘Chinese’ – RT (conservative snowflakes are the weakest link!)
- Four-day week would be affordable for most UK firms, says thinktank – Guardian
Terra Specufestorus
- Australia’s billionaires became 50% richer during pandemic – The Guardian
- ‘Croydon cluster’ declared as NSW records 18 new COVID-19 cases – ABC
- A third of Sydney’s Covid outbreak is outside the northern beaches. It’s time to mandate masks – Guardian
- Mass crowds at SCG during Sydney COVID outbreak: It’s just not cricket – SMH
- The Pitts: Government gifts Woodside $130 million Christmas present – Michael West
- Cannabis crop one of the biggest uncovered in SA, police say – ABC
…and furthermore…
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