‘A Jacaranda Avenue’ Ethel Carrick, 1943, NGV
Global Macro
- Red Sea shipping attacks pressure China’s exporters as delays, costs mount – Reuters
- Why a mistake by the Fed will make it harder for Asia to cut rates – SCMP
- ‘When will you tax extreme wealth?’ the super-rich ask – DW
- The business world is not ‘deglobalizing’ – Nikkei Asia
- AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati – AP
- Gas Traders Looking for a 2024 Rally Will Be Disappointed – OilPrice
- Is the World Overbuilding LNG Capacity? – OilPrice
- 5 major risks confronting the global economy in 2024 – Brookings Institute
Americas
- US applications for jobless benefits fall to lowest level since September 2022 – AP
- The federal debt tops $34 trillion and some in Congress want a commission to find ways to tackle it – AP
- America is headed for a debt crisis like Canada’s in the ’90s, warn veteran politicians – Financial Post
- Immigration surprises are making Bank of Canada’s inflation fight harder – Financial Post
Europe
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- UK retail sales slump points to new risk of recession – Reuters
- Russian sanctions boomerang effect mean a year of stagnation for Europe in 2024 – BNE Intellinews
- To become a geopolitical player the European Union needs Treaty change – Bruegel
- Europe’s biggest economy shrank last year as Germany struggles with multiple crises – AP
Asia
- Russia and China maintain grip on Kazakhstan’s uranium supply amid US and EU high reliance on it – BNE Intellinews
- China’s over-35s hit age barriers in tough labor market – Nikkei Asia
- China’s working age population is shrinking – CNBC
- What China wants out of Myanmar’s civil war – Vox
- China is the world’s sole manufacturing superpower: A line sketch of the rise – VoxEU
- China’s Xi Jinping lays out road map for becoming ‘financial superpower’ – but warns risk can throw efforts off-track – SCMP
- China’s population shrinks again and could more than halve – here’s what that means – The Conversation
- Chinese yuan gaining greater currency in the Gulf – Asia Times
Australasia
- Australia cleans up at home, but exported emissions keep growing – Reuters
- Singapore-based Louis Dreyfus Company acquires 100 per cent of Namoi Cotton shares – ABC
- Supermarkets to face Queensland parliamentary inquiry into high cost of groceries and low farmgate prices – ABC
- Qantas tumbles down rankings of Australia’s best brands as Bunnings maintains top spot – Guardian
- Neither a pandemic nor interest rate rises: can anything dent the Australian housing market? – Guardian, Jericho
- Riots underline Papua New Guinea’s social and economic fragility – Nikkei Asia
- Government action needed to avoid higher interest rates: IMF – Ninefax
…and furthermore…
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- Is seabed mining an economic necessity or a hazard? – BBC
- Spotify attacks Apple’s ‘outrageous’ 27% commission – BBC
- If you want to understand modern politics, you have to understand modern fandom – Vox
- Deadwood labour: The effects of eliminating employment protection among older workers – VoxEU
- The return of industrial policy in data – VoxEU
- What’s it worth to work from home? For some, it’s as much as one-third of their wage – The Conversation
- Mark Carney sees ‘massive disconnect’ in green finance rhetoric – Financial Post
- A Russian spring offensive would wrongfoot Ukraine – Asia Times
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