• Volatility: how ‘algos’ changed the rhythm of the market – FT
• Shelter From the Storm in 2019, Barry Eichengreen – Project Syndicate
• Seoul bears bad news for the globe – Nikkei Asian Review
• As China’s economy gets the chills, some California firms catch a cold – LA Times
• Why the world economy feels so fragile, Martin Wolf – FT
• One Russian in Four Lacks an Indoor Toilet, One of Many Signs There are Now ‘Four Distinct Russias’ – Johnson’s Russia List
• Emerging Markets Get Goldilocks Feel as Risk-Buying Returns – Bloomberg
• Even Bond Traders Don’t Believe This Rally  – Bloomberg
• Is Apple still a ‘forever’ company? How about Facebook? – AEI
• The fate of the dollar will shape financial markets in 2019 – Economist

Bonus

• The hedge funds that are doing the most hiring right now – efinancialcareers
• Lessons from history on the dangers of blind trust in data – FT
• Will Machine Learning Transform Finance – Yale Insights
• Xi’s US strategy recalls Mao’s ‘protracted war’ – Nikkei Asian Review
• China’s team of crack trade negotiators will extract their ‘pound of flesh’, experts say – SCMP
• Second Brexit referendum calls grow as Keir Starmer tells Corbyn it
  could be ONLY way out  – Express
• Warnings From Versailles – Foreign Affairs

• Golf-Home Owners Find Themselves in a Hole – WSJ

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