Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Halting corporate political contributions isn’t enough to protect democracy – Fortune
- Iran, pressured by blackouts and pollution, targets Bitcoin – AP News
- BlackRock tells CEOs to prepare for a zero-emissions economy – CBS News
- The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it – The Guardian
- IMF raises global growth forecasts, expects ‘low levels’ of COVID-19 by end of 2022 – Yahoo
- S&P puts big oil players on negative watch due to climate risk – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Tracking corporate America’s revolt against the Electoral College objectors – CNN
- Janet Yellen gets Senate confirmation as first woman to lead the Treasury Department – CNBC
- Fact-checking 7 statistical claims from Biden’s (quite factual) economic speech – CNN
- US Housing Prices Index Rose At The Fastest Pace Since May 2014 – Christophe Barraud
- America’s billionaires have grown $1.1 trillion richer during the pandemic – CNN
- Economists grow more upbeat about US economy, survey says – Straits Times
Europe:
- European Central Bank sets up climate team, considers green bonds – Euractiv
- London and New York financial services treated the same, EU says – Reuters
- Europe threatens to restrict vaccine exports after AstraZeneca and Pfizer hit production problems – CNN
- Up to a quarter of UK businesses might find their fate in the hands of HMRC – which needs to be tasked to keep them alive… – CEBR
- Europe’s Bankruptcies Are Plummeting. That May Be a Problem. – NY Times
- British shoppers hit with unexpectedly high fees on products from EU after Brexit – Independent
Asia:
- China is rehearsing for when it overtakes America – CNN
- Six more Chinese cities join 1-trillion-yuan GDP club – Xinhuanet
- China, Japan to Expand Exchange-Traded Fund Connect Scheme – Yicai Global
- Tokyo’s apartment prices rise to near bubble-era high in 2020 — Edge Markets
- China’s Economy Picks Up in January, Building on 2020’s Recovery – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Climate change must get the same scientific response as coronavirus, Australian Nobel winner says – SBS
- ‘Competitive advantage’: Call for curbs as property sector ramps up political donations – The SMH
- ABC says it cannot fill void created by closure of suburban and regional newspapers – The Guardian
- Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein says there should be a national conversation around changing the date of Australia Day – ABC
- Travel adviser busts ‘myths’ about Australians stranded overseas during coronavirus pandemic – ABC
- Australian government ordered to pay 1,300 asylum seekers whose details were exposed – The Guardian
- Gold Coast beachfront residents fed up with illegal campers wandering around naked, urinating in public – ABC
- ‘Failure of leadership’: NSW MPs urge review of $1 million vice-chancellor pay – The SMH
- Australians 3rd in this large drink and drug survey. Australians averaging 31 times drunk a year, with england and scotland the worst/best – The Guardian
- Jacinda Ardern says thanks, but no thanks to National’s emergency housing proposal, as the Government is slow to move on its own key supply-side initiatives – Interest.co.nz
- Weighing the options for the housing market – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ ‘to end QE by June – OCR of 1% by 2023’ – Interest.co.nz
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