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

 

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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.

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