Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Oil breaks above $50 for the first time since February – CNBC
- The Inflation Doomsayers Are Wrong Again – Bloomberg
- The land of cheap mortgages just went to zero – Fortune
- Picking Stocks for 2021: Genomics, Electric Vehicles, Bitcoin – Bloomberg
- 2020 was the year (almost) none of us were OK: The pandemic made plain an intolerable crisis of economic inequality. – CrossCut
- Oil Prices Rose After OPEC Decision – Economist
Americas:
- Nearly half of America’s states are increasing their minimum wage in 2021 | But only three will provide a “living wage” – Economist
- Canada to increase carbon taxes 566% by 2030 – nortonrosefulbright.com
- “Big Four” U.S. airlines may go down to three – Reuters
- Why Student Debt Is Crippling Entrepreneurship – Inc
- How the Fed Stifles Lending. Quantitative easing hoovers up bonds, leaving less collateral for eager borrowers. – WSJ
- Joe Biden now says he wants to give you a third stimulus check — for $2,000 – Yahoo
Europe:
- Euro zone companies see productivity boost from pandemic – ECB survey – Reuters
- Electric cars rise to record 54% market share in Norway in 2020 – Reuters
- Euro zone companies see productivity boost from pandemic – ECB survey – Reuters
- Britain’s “Sovereignty” Obsession has lead to a Brexit Deal that Will Cause Economic Problems in 2021 and Beyond – Econo Blog
- U.K. Mortgage Approvals Reached The Highest Since August 2007 – christophe-barraud.com
Asia:
- Re-listing of Chinese telecoms shows China is too big to boycott – Asia Times
- Over One-Third of the Global Industrial Robots Were Manufactured in China – Pan Daily
- China Gives Away $300 Million Worth of Digital Yuan in Latest CBDC Test – Tokenist
- Chinese local government investment vehicles evade borrowing limits: Move raises fears of bad debt surge after recent wave of bond defaults at state-backed companies – FT
- Why China’s economy won’t surpass the US’s by 2028 as ‘experts’ predict – NY Post
- China’s super-rich get $1.5trillion richer as Covid pandemic creates 257 new billionaires – Mazech Media
Trans-Tasman:
- Australian vaccine rollout brought forward with first jabs expected early March – ABC
- Don’t get too smug: US-style voter suppression could happen here too – The Age
- Victorian coronavirus cases prompt Government to delay return-to-work plans – ABC
- ‘Australia’s summer of cricket during Covid is about money and power – and men’ – The Guardian
- The cashless welfare card makes life hard – you can’t do normal things – The Guardian
- Barfoot’s December results confirm a hot Auckland housing market – Interest.co.nz
- No signs of letting up in hot NZ property market – Interest.co.nz
- New 39% income tax rate won’t work as intended. It will just re-incentivise the housing distortion – Interest.co.nz
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