Macro & Markets
- It’s Time to Watch the Bond Market Closely Again – Bloomberg
- How to control a consumer panic – BBC
- U.S., EU to discuss global trade and tech cooperation as they seek to counter China – CNBC
- China’s power cuts may foreshadow shortages of global goods – AP
- Goldilocks Is Dying – Project-Syndicate, Roubini
- UN chief urges food systems change amid climate change threat – DW
- Semiconductor shortage that has hobbled manufacturing worldwide is getting worse – Washington Post
- Why global food prices are higher today than for most of modern history – The Conversation
- Uranium: what the explosion in prices means for the nuclear industry – The Conversation
- Here comes $90 oil – CNN
Americas
- Fed resignations don’t blunt calls for broader ethics changes – Reuters
- Fed officials say they see a pullback in their economic support even with inflation cooling – CNBC
- Ford and SK Innovation to spend $11 billion, create 11,000 jobs on new U.S. EV and battery plants – CNBC
- What happens if the U.S. defaults on its debt? – Market Watch
- Two Fed officials depart amid scrutiny over investment trades – Reuters
- Tariffs, seizures expose U.S. solar industry’s vulnerability to imports – Reuters
Asia
- China energy crunch triggers alarm, pleas for more coal – Reuters
- China’s US trade-deal purchases remain more than 30 per cent short of target, PIIE report says – SCMP
- China’s Great Wall of Debt: can it afford a default? – ABC, Verrender
- Goldman Sachs cuts China growth forecast over power outages – BBC
- Power shortages in China hit homes and factories prompting global supply fears – Guardian
- As China cracks down, foreign companies try to figure out where they fit in – CNBC
- China provincial governor urges more coal imports to resolve power shortages – CNBC
- Nomura cuts China GDP forecast as power crunch drags down growth – CNBC
- Connecting the Dots in China – Project-Syndicate, Roach
- China’s industrial profit growth slows due to high commodity prices, coronavirus, component shortages – SCMP
- World Bank cuts Asia growth outlook, calls for virus action – AP
Europe
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- UK interest rate rise in 2022 becoming more likely, says Bank chief – Guardian
- UK energy customers really could be footing a bill in the billions – Guardian
- Berliners vote ‘yes’ on property expropriation, but what happens now? – DW
- Revealed: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe – Guardian
- How a V-shaped market and ageing pipes and fields sent gas prices soaring – BNE Intellinews
- A Perfect Storm Threatens to Engulf the Bank of England – Bloomberg
Terra Specufestor
- Australia challenges Google’s ad dominance, calls for data-use rules – Reuters
- Australian Household Spending Drops for Third Month on Lockdowns – Bloomberg
- Home loan crackdown appears imminent as Treasurer, regulators discuss house price surge – ABC, Janda
- New Zealand seeks to cool scorching housing market with new law reducing deductions – ABC
- Regional Australia won’t get better mobile performance without data on capacity, study warns – Guardian
- Australia can’t get back the time lost to lockdowns – but an extra hour of daylight saving would help – Guardian
- Melbourne diocese of Anglican church received $16m in jobkeeper in 2020 – Guardian
- What will the donors think? Liberal/Labor refuse to act without nod from Big Gas – Michael West
- Ken Henry: The interests of the most disadvantaged are not being served by our tax system – Pearls and Irritations
- How the Doherty model has been politically weaponised. – Pearls and Irritations
…and furthermore…
- How Digital Cash Can Lift Gross National Happiness – Bloomberg
- EU proposes universal charging plug for all smartphones – DW
- Today’s kids will live through 3 times as many climate-change disasters as their grandparents: report – Market Watch
- How ‘wonder material’ graphene became a national security concern – Guardian
- People who ‘can’t fit into jeans they wore aged 21’ risk developing diabetes – Guardian
- The edible insects coming to a supermarket near you – BBC
- COVID provided a real-life experiment on house price theory and what makes owning a home unaffordable – ABC
- Work-life balance: what really makes us happy might surprise you – The Conversation