Weekend Links: 30 November – 1 December 2019
by Gunnamatta
The arrival of implacable gifts, 1985, James Gleeson, Art Gallery of NSW
China – Asia
- ‘China spy’ spills secrets that rattle Taiwan and Hong Kong – Nikkei Asian Review
- China Financial Warning Signs Are Flashing Almost Everywhere – Bloomberg
- Sri Lanka’s new government wants to undo Hambantota port lease to Chinese venture – SCMP
- Japan’s factory output posts largest fall in almost two years – Reuters
- China says 2019 pork imports to exceed 3 million tonnes – Reuters
- Doubts grow over Hong Kong’s future as financial centre amid protests – FT.com
Europe – UK
- Germany’s difficult choice could be whether to alienate the US or China – CNBC
- A US-UK free trade agreement will bring benefits on both sides of the Atlantic – Spectator
- Wealthy US donors gave millions to rightwing UK groups – Guardian
- Europe’s Social Democrats Could Suffer Mass Extinction – Bloomberg
Americas – US
- American jobs are getting worse, new economic index shows – CBS
- Big Coal Trashed the Climate and Got Away With It – Rolling Stone
- US economy growing modestly, labor market still tight, according to Fed’s Beige Book report – CNBC
- Trade war: US soybean farmers anxiously await China deal, but Brazil, Argentina exporters hope for ‘no deal’ – SCMP
Terraspecufestorus
- Little Christmas cheer for school leavers looking for holiday work, with fewer positions and more competition – ABC
- Bardot goes into administration as it struggles in ‘highly cluttered’ retail sector – ABC
- Business hurting customers with ‘weapons of mass influence’: ASIC – Ninefax
- Alleged Chinese spy target pictured sitting next to Liberal MP Gladys Liu at her home – Ninefax
- Suddenly, the Chinese Threat to Australia Seems Very Real – NY Times
- The Private Health Insurance industry is a scam subsidised by taxpayers – Pearls and Irritations, Menadue
- Calls for Reserve Bank as Peoples Bank as farm credit dries up – Michael West
Macro & Markets
- Leading Rare Earth Miner Looks To Seal Mega Deal In The U.S. – Oilprice.com
- Bold Bets That Gold Could Triple to $4,000 Trade in New York – Bloomberg
- High-grade iron ore outperforms as China steel margins recover – Reuters, Clyde Russell
- How investment analysts became data miners – FT.com
- Are we in for a repeat of the ‘Long Depression’? – MarketWatch…interesting read…
…and furthermore…
- Chinese astronomers discover ‘impossibly massive’ black hole LB-1 – SCMP
- How US immigration officials set up a fake university and arrested 250 with illegal visas – SCMP
- The horror of sameness – Aeon
- If a monopoly gives away free services is it a problem? – FT.com
- The Next Wave of Debt Monetization Will Be a Disaster – Epoch Times
- Demographics and technology explain secular stagnation and more – VoxEU
- Beyond the Phillips curve: Understanding low wage growth in the euro area – VoxEU
- The Web Might Be a Monopolist’s Best Friend – Bloomberg, Smith
Gunnamatta
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