Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Gold rises due to US stimulus expectations – Guardian Mag
- S&P 500 rises to all-time high ahead of Biden’s inauguration, Netflix leads Nasdaq to a record – CNBC
- Inflation Is Coming. That Might Even Be a Problem. – Bloomberg
- Risk of ‘lost generation’ amid global asset bubbles and debt crises – The SMH
- Bobby Kennedy was right: GDP is a poor measure of a nation’s health – The Guardian
Americas:
- A big infrastructure spending bill might finally be in the cards – CNN
- California households owe $1bn in water bills as affordability crisis worsens – The Guardian
- Biden vows to rebuild middle class – Nikkei
- Markets upbeat on Yellen’s push for large fiscal stimulus – Business Times
- New York City renters hold more than $1 billion in back rent – NPA Mag
- How the Joe Biden presidency could impact your money – AP News
- Biden looks to give a big boost to homebuyers and builders – CNBC
Europe:
- EU seeks to cut reliance on U.S. dollar, other financial centres – Reuters
- UK Will Use Blockchain Technology For Its Covid-19 Vaccines – Crypto Basic
- What do vaccination passports mean for Europe? – Bruegel
- Eurozone industrial production exceeded expectations in November – Brussels Mornings
- Germany to ban ‘chick shredding’ from 2022 in global first – DW
- Brexit has driven 2,500 finance jobs and €170bn to France, says bank governor – The Guardian
Asia:
- 7 Hong Kong bank staff arrested in $1.07 billion money-laundering probe – Straits Times
- China’s faux fur craze is anything but fake – CGTN
- China’s economy expands at faster rate than before coronavirus – FT
- China Set to Topple U.S. as Biggest Economy Sooner After Virus – Bloomberg
- China becomes only major world economy to report growth in 2020 – The Hill
- China Set to Topple U.S. as Biggest Economy Sooner After Virus – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Hospital Pass: how Scott Morrison foisted quarantine responsibility on the states – Michael West
- More than 30 countries condemn Australia at UN over high rates of child incarceration – The Guardian
- ‘Won’t be enough’: New JobSeeker rate confirmed – Yahoo
- The ACT will offer free rego and help pay for your new car if you choose to go electric – ABC
- Australian government urged to try and recover student loans from the dead – The Guardian
- Australian housing system ‘broken’ with more than half of low-income renters facing rental stress – The Guardian
- 47,000 Queenslanders join class action against firms accused of pushing up power prices – ABC
- Westpac economists now see no further cuts to official interest rates – Interest.co.nz
- QE ‘likely to continue to play a key role in the monetary policy toolkit for years to come’ – Interest.co.nz
- Why we need a war on debt – Interest.co.nz
- Housing market’s ‘perfect storm’ and ‘unprecedented’ price gains – Interest.co.nz
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