‘The Creek’ 1925, Arthur Streeton, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro and Markets
- The power trap: Why the energy crisis is a crisis of politics – New Statesman
- OPEC+ caution and money behind reluctance to pump more oil-sources – Reuters
- European gas prices slide back after Putin hints Russia may help “stabilise” the market – BNE Intellinews
- The next Pandora Papers exposé is inevitable – unless governments do more on two key reforms – The Conversation
- Pandora Papers: is the world’s biggest leak the world’s biggest cover-up? – Michael West
- OPEC+ oil strategy risks derailing economic recovery from pandemic – DW
- US seeks ‘frank conversations’ on trade with China – DW
- Global tax deal inches closer as holdout Ireland agrees to sign up – CNBC
- China’s Energy Crisis Is Hitting Everything From iPhones to Milk – Bloomberg
- Will Evergrande and Others Tell Us More About Private Bonds? – Bloomberg
- Banks don’t want your money right now – Vox
- UN Secretary calls unequal distribution of Covid vaccines across globe immoral and stupid – CNBC
- What High Gas Prices and Financial Crises Have in Common – Bloomberg
- The Evidence Is Piling Up: Inflation Doesn’t Look Transient – Bloomberg
- Central Banks and the Looming Financial Reckoning – Project-Syndicate
- Read the Runes. Inflation Is Showing Some Staying Power – Bloomberg
- Ireland ends 12.5% tax rate in OECD global pact – Guardian
- Simpler approaches to a global tax plan – VoxEU
- The Rot of Democracies – The Atlantic
Americas
- U.S. Senate approves temporary lift to debt ceiling, averting default – Reuters
- ‘Containergeddon’: Supply crisis drives Walmart and rivals to hire their own ships – Reuters
- The cost of political uncertainty: Lessons from the 2011 US debt ceiling crisis – VoxEU
- Senate dodges US debt disaster, voting to extend borrowing – AP
- US health experts urge flu shots to avoid ‘twindemic’ – AP
- Puzzle overhanging job market: When will more people return? – AP
- America Is Running Out of Everything – The Atlantic
- Will Trump Run in 2024? There’s a Reason Why He Won’t Say– Rolling Stone
- America’s hidden hedge against inflation – MarketWatch
- Opioid crisis: US pharmacies face moment of truth as trial begins – BBC
- Dancing with the Debt Ceiling – Project-Syndicate
- Brace yourself — gas prices are hitting records as global energy crisis arrives in Canada – CBC
- I never expected to retire to Panama — but we are living ‘very comfortably’ on $1,200 a month – MarketWatch
Asia
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- Malaysia, China go head to head in South China Sea – Asia Times
- The hidden enemies in Xi’s midst – Asia Times
- China defiant amid new US trade war threats – Asia Times
- Azerbaijan shuts office of Iranian supreme leader’s Baku representative as war game tensions mount – BNE Intellinews
- China’s bid to ‘weaponise trade’ crumbles as it turns to Australia for cotton, copper despite import ban – SCMP
- China is not heading toward a market economy, often due to its own policies, report concludes – SCMP
- China crackdown: How much pain can the economy take? – DW
- Why India is on the brink of an unprecedented power crisis – BBC
- Changing China: How Xi’s ‘common prosperity’ may impact the world – BBC
- It Took a Pandemic to Show the Real Limits of Dutertismo – Bloomberg
- A Made-in-China financial crisis? – Stuff.co.nz
- As China stumbles, the West must ask: what if its rise is not inevitable? – New Statesman
- ‘Common Prosperity’ Is for Property Tycoons, Too – Bloomberg
- The Government Blinked First in China’s Energy Crisis – Bloomberg
- China’s economic miracle is in transition, not in danger of stagnation – SCMP
- South China Sea tensions: why Malaysia’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ approach to China is deliberate – SCMP
- China power cuts: Coal miners ordered to boost output, say reports – BBC
- Bad timing for an energy crisis in China – Asia Times
- Japan PM Kishida vows to strengthen Quad alliance and China ties – Nikkei Asia
- China power outages spur new wave of supply chain shifts – Nikkei Asia
- Global investors should start paying attention to India’s rise – Nikkei Asia
- China calls for huge boost in coal output to fight power crunch – Reuters
Europe
- Russia’s Gazprom feels the heat over Europe’s red-hot gas prices – Reuters
- Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna COVID-19 vaccine – Reuters
- Ireland agrees to global tax deal, sacrificing prized low rate – Reuters
- Cash windfall for Spanish youth can’t be spent on bullfights – AP
- Pandora Papers link influential Russians to offshore havens – BNE Intellinews
- The U.S. was right — Europe has become a ‘hostage’ to Russia over energy, analysts warn – CNBC
- Spain wants young people to leave home – and is offering them $300 a month to do so – CNBC
- Where does the UK get its gas and is it facing a shortage this winter? – BBC
- Bank of England chief economist warns high inflation rates may persist in 2022 – Guardian
- Risk of UK power cuts this winter has increased, says National Grid – Guardian
- Europe’s soaring gas prices: does Russia hold solution to crisis? – Guardian
- NatWest faces £340m fine after admitting ‘money-laundering’ failings – Guardian
- European parliament approves tougher rules on offshore wealth – Guardian
- Boris Johnson’s ‘high wage’ agenda is taking the wind out of Labour’s sails – Guardian
- How and why the Irish corporate tax rate changed – RTE
- Global supply crunch fuels German inflation – DW
- Stagflation Fear Is Having a British Renaissance – Bloomberg
- People want bold economic change – the tragedy is, Labour hasn’t realised this – Guardian
- Boris Johnson’s Housing Headaches Aren’t Over Yet – Bloomberg
Terra Specufestor
- Thanks to APRA, it’s about to become harder to get a mortgage. Here’s why – The Conversation
- Australians need more protection against genetic discrimination: health experts – The Conversation
- Vital Signs. Laugh at the US if you will, but Australia narrowly escaped a debt ceiling – The Conversation
- Banks given new borrowing rule as Australian house prices soar – Guardian
- ‘Incompetent’: Frydenberg attacked over jobkeeper after profit warnings from ATO revealed – Guardian
- Reserve Bank warns home loan restrictions ‘may be adjusted’ if housing market doesn’t cool – ABC
- ‘China’s financial system could collapse’: What the Reserve Bank’s Evergrande bombshell means for Australia – ABC
- Woolworths announces $50m payment to staff and reaches underpayment class action settlement – ABC
- The Morrison government is facing a battle over an integrity commission it doesn’t really want – ABC
- Australia has proved fertile ground for US anti-intellectual propaganda – Pearls and Irritations
- Time to call time on Infrastructure Australia? It has failed – Pearls and Irritations
- Wasting away: the Coalition government’s poor management record – Pearls and Irritations
- If only we had a carbon price, we wouldn’t be trembling in our boots – Ninefax
- Careful, they might hear you: why Scott Morrison’s ministry is so quiet – Ninefax
- How private management consultants took over the public service – The Saturday Paper…everyone interested in how Australian public services work should have a read of this. What a generation ago was an organised far seeing data backed bureaucracy has become a cult of managerialism often propagated by psychopaths, always singing backing vocals to some ideological nonsense…..
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- Microsoft: Russia behind 58% of detected state-backed hacks – AP
- What does the Irish tax deal mean for multinationals? – Guardian
- A new type of black gold in Nigeria: used car tyres – Reuters
- An all-weather economic policy framework for the euro area – VoxEU
- Reallocation effects of the minimum wage – VoxEU
- Distrust versus speculation: The drivers of cryptocurrency investments – VoxEU
- Another disinflationary force vanishes: The tightening of bank equity capital regulation – VoxEU
- AI robots may have already killed in combat – Asia Times
- Global warming has killed 14% of the world’s corals in a decade – Straits Times
- 3 reasons people with power are more likely to make bad decisions – The Conversation
- Planned obsolescence – how Big Tech manipulates consumers to spend again and again – Michael West
- Pandora Papers: How the fight against tax avoidance is going – DW
- These are the countries historically responsible for the climate emergency – CNBC
- Self-driving cars: The 21st-century trolley problem – Recode
- The great digital currency dilemma – Stuff.co.nz
- The Undoing of Doing Business – Project-Syndicate…4 pieces worth reading and thinking about…
- What is ‘the West’? – Aeon
- A fourth globalisation – Aeon