Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- FRBNY Staff Report: Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality – New York Fed
- The Burger Flipper Who Became a World Expert on the Minimum Wage – Bloomberg
- Economists may not agree about the merits of a fixed money supply. But at least now there’s a price tag for switching. – Academic Times
- The GameStop Rally Exposed the Perils of ‘Meme Populism’ – NY Mag
Americas:
- Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID – Ineteconomics
- This is the most overvalued housing market in America. Spoiler: It’s not in California. – Morningstar
- Here’s the new Democratic plan for $1,400 stimulus checks – Washington Post
- U.S. trade deficit rises to 12-year high $679 billion – AP News
- Rise in housing prices outpaces income growth – Fox
- U.S. economy added just 49,000 jobs in January, signaling ongoing fragility of labor market – NBC News
- Biden withdraws Judy Shelton’s Fed nomination – The Hill
- Feb. 16 is the next big day for Biden’s economic plan – Market Watch
Europe:
- Hardest time to be a first-time buyer since the housing bubble of 2007 – Telegraph
- UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates – The Guardian
- BOE Tells Banks to Start Preparing for Negative Rates If Needed – Bloomberg
- European Union cohesion project characteristics and regional economic growth – Bruegel
- Independence could cost Scotland’s economy £11bn a year – The Guardian
Asia:
- Vietnam prepares for supply chain shift from China – FT
- PayPal says to shut domestic payments business in India – Reuters
- China’s SWIFT joint venture shows Beijing eyeing global digital currency use, to internationalise yuan – SCMP
- Japan stocks rally faces Wile E. Coyote moment in COVID-19 era – Nikkei
- How China’s Liquidity Squeeze Got Markets All Rattled – Bloomberg
- German firms upbeat about outlook for China despite US decoupling fears, survey finds – SCMP
Trans-Tasman:
- Bushfire scheme takes pork-barrelling to new level – The SMH
- Ecologists buy 1,000-acre blue gum plantation and transform it into wetland it once was – ABC
- Australia’s Antarctic Mawson Station 1954 founding team has one surviving member — 100-year-old John Russell – ABC
- Morrison geared up for a party room fight over climate this week. There wasn’t a peep – ABC
- Break-in at Adelaide Chinatown bubble tea shop where alleged assault occurred – ABC
- Michael McCormack says agriculture could be excluded from 2050 net zero emissions target – The Guardian
- Federal government reveals plans for ‘proof of vaccination’ certificates to be stored and displayed on phone apps – News.com.au
- One year since Australia’s devastating wildfires, anger grows at climate change ‘inaction’ – NBC
- Skinny towers: with few prime city sites left, Sydney and Melbourne are going tall and slim – The Guardian
- The Mysterious ‘Other’: political donations and the devil in the detailed receipts – Michael West
- A homeless woman faces large fine for sleeping rough during WA’s lockdown – SBS
- Being a ‘stranded Australian’ in London brought multiple cases of COVID-19, quarantines and lockdowns – ABC
- The decisions the RBNZ didn’t expect to be making now – Interest.co.nz
- Revealed: The official advice Robertson ignored on how QE boosts house prices – Interest.co.nz
- Property auctions sizzled in January – 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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