Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- How Wall Street Became an Enemy of Free Markets – XX Report
- When Covid infection rates dip, inflation rates may well rise – The Guardian
- Elon Musk on Gold: “You Might as Well Have Crypto” – Decrypt
- This is the type of world we could stand to continue – Washington Post
- The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being – AEA Web
Americas:
- Millions of Tenants Behind on Rent, Small Landlords Struggling, Eviction Moratoriums Expiring Soon: Inside the Next Housing Crisis – Time
- Griddy customers face $5,000 electric bills for 5 freezing days in Texas – Dallas News
- U.S. reaches 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus – NBC News
- How Biden and the Senate can help a tariff-burdened whiskey industry – Washington Post
- Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising, new Census report shows – Reuters
- ‘Hidden homeless crisis’: After losing jobs and homes, more people are living in cars and RVs and it’s getting worse – USA Today
- Blue-Collar Jobs Boom as Covid-19 Boosts Housing, E-Commerce Demand – WSJ
Europe:
- Covid-19: Could empty office buildings help solve France’s housing crisis? – France 24
- United Kingdom battles its biggest economic collapse in more than 300 years! – Mazech
- Rishi Sunak set to raise UK corporation tax in Budget – City AM
- ‘Digital tulip’ or new asset class? Bitcoin’s bid to go mainstream – FT
- Costs are rising exponentially for Europe’s disinformation war on vaccine science – Telegraph
- About 7% of UK 17-year-olds have tried to take own life – The Guardian
Asia:
- Japan requests airlines stop using Boeing 777s with P&W4000 engines until further notice – Reuters
- Chinese spend over 900b yuan in online Spring Festival shopping spree – China Daily
- State Grid projects help ease poverty – China Daily
- Japan’s stocks have outperformed European stocks for years but investors are still not buying, raising concerns – Mazech
- Jews lead fight against the oppression of China’s Uighur Muslims – JPost
- Chinese ambassador denounces pending vote by MPs on declaring genocide against Uighurs – CBC
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban – The Verge
- NBN may have cost $10b less than claimed: secret figures – The SMH
- JobMaker could pay bosses to cut wages and jobs, warns Treasury – ABC
- Disabled young people living on poverty-level benefits rises 300% – The Guardian
- Government to escalate Facebook feud by pulling advertising spend potentially worth millions of dollars – ABC
- Australia’s skilled visa allocation to Hongkongers has more than doubled since China’s crackdown – SBS
- Hundreds of homes being ‘left vacant’ by landlords in Adelaide’s CBD – ABC
- PM says he got COVID vaccine a day before national rollout to let Australians know ‘it’s good to go’ – ABC
- Two Aussie banks merge to form $88bn giant – Yahoo
- Queensland rental crisis forcing people to live in tents – ABC
- Govt delays housing policy announcements to mid-March – Interest.co.nz
- Immigration is the biggest single driver of housing demand – Interest.co.nz
- Records all around in the searing mortgage market in 2020 – 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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