Macrobusiness Links 31 January 2022
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Macro & Markets
- New Zealand PM Ardern self-isolating after exposure to COVID – Nikkei Asia
- LNG ships flock to Europe as Ukraine crisis builds: satellite data – Nikkei Asia
- The party’s over: The Fed and Congress have pulled their support from workers and investors – MarketWatch
- Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike periods – MarketWatch
- How Russia’s Ukraine conflict could reshape economics and markets even if it doesn’t end in war – ABC
- Commodities’ Dizzying Week Amid Fed, Nor’Easter in Five Charts – Bloomberg
Americas
- How U.S. Income Tax Policy Became Mostly About the 1% – Bloomberg
- US economy grows at fastest pace in decades – BBC
- Goldman Sachs expecting five rate hikes this year – Reuters
- Fed’s matchmaker fear: Flatlining economy meets higher interest rates – Reuters
- Just-in-time gives way to “buy everything you can” as U.S. supply disruptions persist – Reuters
- Argentina traders cheer IMF breakthrough, caution long road ahead – Reuters
- Argentina reaches agreement with IMF to refinance debt – AP News
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Asia
- China population: county sparks uproar by telling ‘leftover’ women to marry unemployed men – SCMP
- China’s money laundering crackdown reflects ‘severe’ risks facing the financial system – SCMP
- US bans telecom giant China Unicom over spying concerns – BBC
- Where’s China’s economy heading? – DW
Europa
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- How the UK government lost £4.9bn to Covid loan fraud – Guardian
- Can Ukraine do without Russian gas transit fees? – DW…not really…
- ECB unlikely to be swayed by Federal Reserve’s hawkish turn – DW
- Chinese APT 27 hackers targeting companies, says Germany – DW
- EU launches WTO case against China over Lithuania mistreatment – DW
- How EU countries are reacting to high gas prices – DW
- Joe Biden to send US troops to Eastern Europe – DW
- What if Russia turns off the gas? Europe assesses its options as fears mount over Ukraine crisis – CNBC
- German economy shrank 0.7% in 4th quarter as COVID resurged – AP News
- Foreign banks face bigger capital bill under draft EU plan – Reuters
Terra Specufestora
- Earlier coal phase-out for Victoria likely as renewables surge – Ninefax
- We’re not quite as special as our politicians say we are – NInefax
- Cost of living: New Zealand inflation tops three-decade high – BBC
- Political platitudes like ‘we’re in a good place’ won’t fill the cracks in Australia’s economy ahead of the election – Guardian
- The market thinks rates are about to go up because of inflation. The market could be wrong – Guardian
- Inland rail: federal government won’t reassess business case despite cost blowout warnings – Guardian
- Australia seeks to join WTO talks on China-EU trade row – Reuters
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…and furthermore….
- Buy now, pay later grocery schemes are a ‘debt trap’ for struggling families – Guardian
- So Long, Weird Amazon Twitter Army – Slate
- How the fossil fuel industry is pushing plastics on the world – CNBC
- Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says crypto has ‘disturbing’ parallels with subprime mortgage meltdown – CNBC
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