View of the snowy bluff on the Wonnangatta River, 1864, Eugene von GUÉRARD
Global Macro
- Will BRICS expansion set a new agenda for the Global South? – DW
- Central Banks, King Canute and rate tide – Reuters
- COP28 failed to resolve threat of climatic cataclysm – Nikkei Asia
- Russia, China ahead in race for Bolivia’s lithium – DW
- Dollar could fall to around ¥130 in 2024, analysts say – Japan Times
- How China talked markets out of a run on the yuan – Reuters
- Metals spend the year pinned between old and new cycles – Reuters
- How were so many economists so wrong about the recession? – Ninefax
- West is fighting futile war against global trade’s inevitable shift east – SCMP
Americas
- The urgent to-do list awaiting Congress in January – Vox
- Interest rate cuts will be the story of 2024 — what that means for mortgages and more – Financial Post
- Why the so-called soft landing is just the calm before the storm – Financial Post
- Business investment in Canada hasn’t been this bad since the Dirty ’30s – Financial Post
- Record population growth risks aggravating Canada’s housing headaches, say economists – Financial Post
- As new minimum wages are ushered in, companies fight back with fees and layoffs – CBS
- How 2023 became the year Congress forgot to ban TikTok – Guardian
- ‘I feel like a criminal for quitting’: nurses in the US fight ‘stay or pay’ agreements – Guardian
- The worst of inflation could be behind us. A recession may not be – CNN
- US economic data points to ‘real momentum’ for 2024, White House says – Reuters
- Unions made 2023 the year of the strike. What will happen next? – ABC
- More Americans are expected to ‘buy now, pay later’ for the holidays. Analysts see a growing risk – AP
Europe
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- KSE: The Russian economic chartbook at the end of 2023 – stumbling, but not falling (yet) – BNE Intellinews
- Is the West getting ready to end its support of Ukraine? – BNE Intellinews
- Ukraine updates: Putin vows to ‘never back down’ – DW
- Eurostar resumes rail services after flood disruptions – DW
- Germany mulls reintroduction of compulsory military service – DW
Asia
- BOJ likely to finally seek normalization 2024 – Japan Times
- China aims to ease property crunch via new affordable housing push – Nikkei Asia
- 2024 outlook: China’s economic gloom to lighten a little bit – Nikkei Asia
- India and IMF clash over rupee stability – Nikkei Asia
- Singapore avoids recession as Lee warns of ‘troubled’ world – Bangkok Post
- China factory activity contracts – Taipei Times
- India’s parliament debates Murthy’s 70-hour work week – DW
- China-Taiwan ‘reunification’ is inevitable, says Xi – DW
- Xi says China to consolidate and enhance economic recovery in 2024 – Reuters
- China’s Dec factory activity contracted more than expected – Reuters
Australia New Zealand
- Cost-of-living crunch sees more retailers give products a second lease of life – ABC
- Australia narrowly avoided recession this year — what these experts think will happen in 2024 – ABC
- Australia went to war in Iraq based on ‘oral reports’ to cabinet from John Howard – Guardian
- Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archives – Guardian
- What is a sustainable immigration level anyway? – Pearls and Irritations
- Abandoned sovereignty: Australia’s intelligence function colonised by US – Pearls and Irritations
- Passenger restrained on Qantas flight from Bali – New Daily
- Australian barley is back in China after Beijing scraps tariffs – Taipei Times
- Different views of Australia’s population from agencies in the same portfolio – Pearls and Irritations, Rizvi….some disturbing numbers……..
- Economically, Australia has been lucky – what matters now is what we do next – The Conversation
- It’s not just housing: the ‘bank of mum and dad’ is increasingly helping fund the lives of young Australians – The Conversation
- Nuclear dreams rudely awoken by blast of CSIRO reality – Michael West
- Albo’s Diary revealed: who’s influencing the PM? – Michael West
- The year the Australian Dream died – BBC
…and furthermore…
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- John Pilger, campaigning journalist, dies aged 84 – Guardiasn
- We spend billions on ‘wellness’ crap. Why? – Pearls and Irritations
- Do electric cars really produce fewer carbon emissions than petrol or diesel vehicles? – Guardian
- Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using ‘incognito mode’ – NPR
- Japan households hoarding unneeded goods worth ¥66.67 trillion, Mercari says – Japan Times
- Smell of women’s tears may reduce aggression in men – study – DW
- New psychology research reveals how manager’s psychopathic traits are linked to employee’s well-being – PsyPost
- New Zealand newsrooms saw the rise of ‘mob censorship’ in 2023, as journalists faced a barrage of abuse – The Conversation
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