Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- RadioShack to rebrand as cryptocurrency exchange platform – Fox Business
- Why price controls are a bad tool for fighting inflation – Noah Opinion
- COVID-19 Treatments Belong to the People, Not Price-Gouging Pharma Companies – Jacobin Mag
- The end of 2021… Oil records the largest annual gain in 12 years – Magdy67
- Challenges to the World Economy in 2022 – Econdb
- Stocks notch big yearly gain despite ending 2021 on a weak note – PBS
- Tesla recalls nearly 500,000 cars to fix safety defects – CBS
Americas:
- States are Hoarding $5.2 Billion in Welfare Funds Even as the Need for Aid Grows – Pro Publica
- Meet the typical baby boomer: Worth $206,000, they’ve been blamed for ruining the economy for millennials and are in the midst of the ‘gray tsunami’ – Business Insider
- Nursing homes bleed staff as Amazon lures low-wage workers with Prime packages – Salon
- Sales of newly built homes tank as affordability hits buyers – CNBC
- Pending home sales slide as buyers grow more cautious about high prices – Market Watch
- CDC warns against cruises, regardless of vaccination status – ABC
- Underestimate the U.S. Economy at Your Own Risk – A Wealth of Common Sense
- Peru’s inflation closes 2021 at 13-year high – Reuters
Europe:
- Boris Johnson asks ministers to plan for Covid workplace absences of up to 25% – The Guardian
- France offers intensive care nurses €100 monthly bonus amid Covid-19 exhaustion – France 24
- Finland says it could join NATO despite Russian pressure – Yahoo
- French Burn Fewer Cars Than Usual On New Year’s Eve Due To Pandemic – Huff Post
- Germany hits out at Brussels plan to label nuclear and gas ‘green’ – Politico
- Turkey steps up the demands for Greece to take its troops off the greek islands – National Herald
Asia:
- China to scrap subsidies for electric vehicles – France 24
- China cuts EV subsidy for 2021; market downplays impact on lithium, cobalt prices – Metal Bulletin
- China Warns Walmart Against Removing Products Made in Xinjiang – WSJ
- U.S. on Sidelines as China and Other Asia-Pacific Nations Launch Trade Pact – WSJ
- The failure of liberal democracy and the rise of China’s way – The Economist
- S.Korea exports grow 25.8% y/y in 2021, sharpest in 11 years – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- More Than 10,000 Australians Want Compensation for Vaccine Side Effects – Bloomberg
- Minister rejects six peer-reviewed ARC research grants on ‘national interest’ grounds – Innovation Aus
- Australians will soon get to prove the resilience of our democracy. The world shows us how precarious a privilege that is – ABC
- Our COVID rear-vision isn’t pretty, but we can’t ignore the oncoming threat in our windscreen – The SMH
- Food budget of $30 a week: Students suffer food insecurity at university campuses – The Age
- Government says QR codes still vital, amid claims they are of little use – The Age
- Decision to exempt NSW health workers from Covid isolation reflects hospitals’ ‘desperate situation’ – The Guardian
- ‘It’s stuff that formed part of people’s childhood’: Hundreds of archived 90s photos show Queensland’s transformation – ABC
- This week Omicron and COVID left Australians taking a big cognitive leap, as surge takes us to new ground – ABC
- Labor promises $500m for Sydney to Newcastle leg of future high-speed rail – The SMH
- John Howard has criticised Kevin Rudd’s 2008 apology to the Stolen Generations – The SMH
- They left a $3b hole. This is how we can get working holidaymakers back – ABC
- Time to make 2022 predictions – Interest.co.nz
- NZ vs AU mortgage rate comparisons – Interest.co.nz
- Australia holds its collective breath – Interest.co.nz
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