Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year – Guardian
- Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past – NBER
- Oil prices shrug off Omicron slump, soar to 2-month highs – Reuters
- Developing countries at risk from global economic threats, says World Bank – Guardian
Americas:
- Quebec to impose ‘significant’ financial penalty against people who refuse to get vaccinated – CTV
- Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch again doesn’t wear mask on bench, Sotomayor and Breyer log in remotely – CNBC (don’t judge him!)
- Amid rising prices, American families fall deeper in debt – CNBC
- Powell says new rules for financial trades will be in place ‘imminently’ – The Hill
- Covid vaccines prevented nearly a quarter-million deaths last spring – NBC (but are birds really real?)
- White House allies split over inflation plan as Biden focuses on corporate greed – WaPo
- Thousands without power in Buenos Aires amid heat wave – Axios
Europe (and the UK):
- Omicron to infect more than half of Europe’s population in 6-8 weeks – WHO – Reuters
- Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed – The Drive
- UK PM Johnson under fire over ‘bring your own booze’ lockdown party – Reuters
- Anti-Kremlin Satirist Flees Russia Over ‘Putin’s Chef’ Libel Suit – MoscowTimes
- Russia braces for ‘very intense’ rise in Omicron cases – Reuters
- Inflation Hawk to Lead German Bundesbank – WSJ
Asia:
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- Study forecasts China investment of $75 trillion in carbon neutrality – AsiaTimes
- North Korea claims successful test of hypersonic missile -APNews
- 10m population not really a ridiculous number for S’pore to plan for: Liu Thai Ker – StraitsTimes
- American companies are still importing teak from Myanmar despite sanctions imposed after the military seized power last year, a report based on trade data said. Asahi
- China’s Tianjin orders re-testing of all 14 million residents after first round of testing found 97 cases of Omicron in the city. – Stuff.co.nz
- S. Korea approves Novavax COVID-19 vaccine – YNA
Trans-Tasman:
- Djokovic travelled across Europe before Australia trip, at odds with declaration – Reuters (the plot thinnens)
- Novak Djokovic admits breaking isolation while Covid positive – BBC
- Government waiting for Rapid Anti-Djokovic Polling before fucking up next move – The Shovel
- Employers push to ease COVID-19 restrictions on more than 1 million workers – SMH
- Chicken out of stock: meat in short supply on Australian supermarket shelves and at KFC – Guardian
- As the election draws closer, Scott Morrison is caught in a Covid dilemma of his own making – Richard Denniss
- Omicron is forcing many Americans to dump their cloth masks for N95s. Should Australians follow? – ABC
- This is the latest plan for Australia to become a republic – The national republic movement has unveiled its “Australian Choice” plan for the country to find a new head of state – SBS
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