Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Elon Musk on Gold: “You Might as Well Have Crypto” – Decrypt
- Work Will Never Be the Same – NY Times
- Elon Musk Says Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices ‘Seem High’ – Bloomberg
- How Central Banks Are Already Fabricating Tomorrow’s Crises That Will Be Much Worse – Medium
- Bitcoin market value tops $1 trillion for first time ever as crypto price soars – Market Watch
Americas:
- Enrollment at US community colleges plummets amid pandemic – ABC News
- Why Corporate America is jumping for joy while millions of workers remain jobless – CNN
- As Texas deep freeze subsides, some households now face electricity bills as high as $10,000 – NBC
- Coronavirus variants could fuel Canada’s third wave – Canada Forums
- Southern cities hit hard by storms face new crisis: No water – AP News
- As power returns, Texas energy firms slowly emerge from deep freeze – Reuters
Europe:
- Uber drivers are workers not self-employed, Supreme Court rules – BBC
- How Amsterdam is stealing a march on rivals as Brexit trading hub – Reuters
- Airbus reports loss of €1bn after Covid, and could shed 15,000 jobs – The Guardian
- COVID-19: Oxford jab more effective when doses are delivered three months apart, study finds – Sky
- Spain sees fourth night of riots over imprisonment of rapper – DW
- Are migrant YouTubers influencing others to travel to the EU? – BBC
- AstraZeneca vaccine remains unpopular in Germany – DW
Asia:
- Analysis: China decoupling could trim 1% off US GDP – China Daily
- Underfunded and Under Pressure, U.S. Pensions to Keep Investing in China – WSJ
- China overtakes U.S. as Europe’s main trading partner for the first time. – CNBC
- No, China is not the EU’s top trading partner. – Politico
- U.S. Charges Three North Koreans in $1.3 Billion Hacking Spree – Reuters
- CNN finds evidence China is advancing theory that the virus originated in a lab in Maryland – CNN
- China’s Coal Supply Crisis Means High Prices, Blackouts – VOA News
Trans-Tasman:
- Greens to put inequality at centre of election campaign after billionaires make out ‘like bandits’ – The Guardian
- Queensland rental crisis forcing people to live in tents – ABC
- ‘It’s not optional’: Debt collectors sent in for overdue quarantine hotel bills – The SMH
- 89% of Victorian cannabis inquiry submissions want legal cannabis – Pondering Pot
- Laughing Stock: Australia’s new media code rivals our climate policy for absurdity – Michael West
- Brittany Higgins’ shocking story must be a turning point. Women in politics have had enough – The Guardian
- Australia’s recovery appears to be going well, but it’s still very weird out there – The Guardian
- COVID-19 vaccines begin as Prime Minister receives Pfizer immunisation – The SMH
- Abuse, threats and a media circus: what happens after a business becomes the centre of a Covid cluster – The Guardian
- Only allowing stranded Australians home on compassionate grounds would undermine the core rights of citizenship – ABC
- RBNZ: LVRs could lower bank lending to property investors by as much as 40% – Interest.co.nz
- You can’t lose with property mate – Interest.co.nz
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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