Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- 9 ways the circular economy can help avert the climate crisis – Green Biz
- Meet the Man on a Mission to Expose Sneaky Price Increases – NY Times
- Weather is again determining economic outcomes – The Economist
- Will the strong dollar trigger a global recession? – The Hill
Americas:
- Marijuana Pardons Affect Just a Sliver of Those Swept Up in the War on Drugs – NY Times
- Get ready for a prolonged downturn that’s worse than 2000 or 2008, billionaire VC Doug Leone says – CNBC
- Thousands of Millionaires Claimed Unemployment Benefits During the Pandemic: IRS – Yahoo
- First Legal Cannabis Retail Licenses Hit New York’s Massive Market – Forbes
- Crime in the retail world makes for not so happy holiday shopping season – Fox Business
- Analyst: ‘Demand for housing is still very strong’ – Yahoo
Europe:
- Energy bills: direct payments needed, not fossil subsidies – Social Europe
- Western sanctions catch up with Russia’s wartime economy – Washington Post
- French man wins right to not be ‘fun’ at work – Washington Post
- Pope links plight of Ukrainians today to Stalin’s ‘genocide’ – AP News
- Brexit has made Britain the sick man of Europe again – The Guardian
- A new dawn for European chips – Europe ramps up its semiconductor industry to become more self-sufficient – Deloitte
- Large Parts of Europe Warming Twice As Fast as the Planet – Already Surpassed 2°C – Scitech Daily
- Latin America’s stagnation ‘worse than the 1980s’, says UN official – FT
Asia:
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- China banks pledge $162 bln in credit to developers – Reuters
- Chinese Students Are Making Their Voices Heard, from Nanjing to Xi’an – What’s on Weibo
- U.S. Bans Chinese Telecom Equipment and Surveillance Cameras Over National Security Risk – Hacker News
- Protests Erupt in Shanghai and Other Chinese Cities Over Covid Controls – NY Times
- China’s 26-storey Pig Skyscraper Ready to Slaughter 1 Million Pigs a Year – The Guardian
- Bird Flu Sweeps Through Japan, Spreading at Unusual Pace – Japan Times
- India’s Economic Ascendance May Happen This Time – Bloomberg
Trans-Tasman:
- Why the Liberal Party lost, and could keep losing into oblivion – New Daily
- Cyber black market selling hacked ATO and MyGov logins shows Medibank and Optus only tip of iceberg – ABC
- Australia must end solitary confinement of children, UN committee against torture says – The Guardian
- ‘I was so angry’: How the death of a baby drove Dr Karl to quit medicine and become a full-time science communicator – ABC
- Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says sorry to Australians who took out mortgages expecting interest rates to stay unchanged – The SMH
- Welfare recipients are potential winners from Pocock twisting Albanese’s arm – The Conversation
- Scott Morrison likely to be censured for ‘usurping’ parliament, Albanese suggests – The Guardian
- Reserve Bank ‘hell bent on hiking rates to hurt households’ – Interest.co.nz
- RBNZ go faster/harder as the Fed contemplate slowing – Interest.co.nz
- Taxing a windfall – Interest.co.nz