Macro & Markets
- After golden year for precious metals, silver set to shine in 2021 – Reuters
- Turbulent times for travel – Bangkok Post…a big hit…
- Small firms: Little engines that could save the global economy – Al Jazeera
- Don’t Worry About a Weak Dollar. Here’s Why. – Market Watch
- Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery – NY Times
- China’s economy may expand by 9 per cent in 2021, helping to overtake US sooner – SCMP
- Stimulus Money Should Have Gone to the Jobless, Economists Say – NY Times (in other news, water is wet)
Americas
- U.S. jobless claims dip but show recovery has long way to go – Reuters
- America’s hollow middle class – The Atlantic
- ‘The US isn’t an option anymore’: why California’s immigrants are heading back to Mexico – Guardian
- Facts won’t fix this: experts on how to fight America’s disinformation crisis – Guardian
- Year ends on low note as 787,000 more Americans file for unemployment – Guardian
- What Giant Skeletons and Puppy Shortages Told Us About the 2020 Economy – NY Times
- U.S. Companies to Face China Tariffs as Exclusions Expire – NY Times
- Trump ‘did not want anyone tested for Covid unless they were in hospital and vomiting’ Independent
- The money we didn’t spend in 2020 – The Atlantic
- Joe Biden to have new Secret Service team amid concern about Trump loyalty – Guardian
- Under pandemic pressure, drugmakers raise prices in US: Report – Al Jazeera
- Two dormant volcanoes on Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines begin to rumble and smoke – Dailymail (here comes 2021!)
- Vaccination is going slowly because nobody is in charge |Why weren’t we prepared to use them? – WaPo (whocoodanode?)
Asia
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- China’s rich face million dollar question: stay and risk losing assets, or face the coronavirus abroad? – SCMP
- China’s economy may expand by 9 per cent in 2021, helping to overtake US sooner – SCMP
- China’s long UN game – Le Monde
- Fresh fears for Tokyo Olympics as host city sees surge in Covid-19 infections – Guardian
- Japanese manufacturers beat a path out of China – Asia Times
- China out front in global race to eliminate CO2 emissions – Nikkei Asia
- Japan aims to deploy unmanned fighter jets in 2035 – Nikkei Asia
- China caps mortgage loans to ward off housing bubbles – Nikkei Asia
- China’s factory recovery slows as higher costs hurt businesses – Al Jazeera
- Coronavirus: China will need an army of vets to defend against future pandemics – SCMP
- China Mobile, telco peers face selling pressure in Hong Kong as NYSE moves to delist their ADRs – SCMP
- China’s new microlending curbs do not address underlying issue of household debt and borrowing, analysts say – SCMP
Europe/Middle East
- Adieu to the single market created by the UK – BBC
- Boris Johnson Has No One Else to Blame Now – Bloomberg
- As 2021 dawns, Israel becomes first country to vaccinate 10% of population – Times of Israel
- UK high street lost 177,000 jobs in 2020, study finds – Guardian
- The left must stop mourning Brexit – and start seeing its huge potential – Guardian….. it certainly does have potential…
- UK economic outlook for 2021: Covid surge deepens the gloom – Guardian
- Brexit: End of an era as United Kingdom fully leaves the European Union – Irish Times
- Iran accuses Trump of ‘plot to fabricate pretext for war’ – The Hill
- Scottish Leader Tells EU ‘Scotland Will Be Back Soon,’ Renewing Talks of Independence – Newsweek
- NATO is furious at Trump delaying the military handover to Biden while ‘there’s a significant security situation underway with Iran that could explode at any time’ – Business Insider
Terra Specufestor
- No more retiree tax: Anthony Albanese dumps franking credits policy – Ninefax…Albo buckles…
- ‘A slight against the next generation’: Anderson warns of debt hangover left by pandemic – Ninefax…next comes the tighten our belts warning…
- Morrison government accused of failing to ‘put in hard yards’ to deepen trade ties with India – Guardian
- Australia records fourth-warmest year in 2020, despite La Niña – Guardian
- China trade ban paves the way for India as new market for Australian timber – ABC
- Australian lobster sector claws back trade after China ban – Jakarta Post
- Australia changes national anthem to reflect indigenous past – BBC
- Frydenberg at heart of ASIC scandal — The Klaxon
- John Howard 2000 cabinet papers: climate wars and the conservative re-engineering of Australia – Guardian
- The rich are getting richer – wealth inequality in Australia – Property Update
- ‘Absolute debacle’: Traffic chaos on the NSW-Victoria border – The Age
…and furthermore…
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- India’s love affair with classic British motorbikes – BBC
- Race is on for quantum computing killer apps – Asia Times
- Microsoft says suspected Russian hackers accessed source code – Al Jazeera
- How the Gender Balance of Investment Teams Shapes the Risks They Take – HBR
- New Year’s Day 1915: The unknown ‘Battle of Broken Hill’ – WFA