What I Am Reading
Saturday, December 18, 2021
Markets
Central banks
- Europe’s Top Central Banks Take Divergent Tracks as They Confront InflationWall Street Journal
- BOJ may scale back emergency funding as pandemic strains easeReuters
- Dashing Fed’s Hopes, Low Unemployment Becomes an Inflation ThreatWall Street Journal
- The Federal Reserve still has a lot of questions to answer about its long-term strategyCNBC
- Jerome Powell, Fiscal LobbyistWall Street Journal
Global
- Covid-19 Surge Slows U.S., European Recovery, but Supply Problems EaseWall Street Journal
US
- Build Back Better Senate vote likely delayed due to Joe Manchin’s oppositionVox
- Taking Joe Manchin SeriouslyWall Street Journal
- Top Biden Economist Cecilia Rouse: ‘I Really Do Believe’ Inflation Will EaseBloomberg
- Biden’s EV charging network plan will be slow goingVox
- White House Revs Up Trucker Recruitment DriveWall Street Journal
- Kamala Harris Says She and Biden Haven’t Discussed Running for Re-Election in 2024Wall Street Journal
China
Industries & companies
- Financials:How Banks Win When Interest Rates RiseWall Street Journal
- Financials:Climate Risks for Big Banks Could Hurt Financial System, OCC SaysWall Street Journal
- Media:Fox News loses bid to dismiss Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit on election coverageCNBC
- Tech:Apple Makes 'Essentially Extortion' Payment to China
Corporate finance
- Oracle in Talks to Buy CernerWall Street Journal
Virus I
- Covid surge is gripping New York City ahead of the holidays: 'We've never seen this before'CNBC
- CDC recommends Pfizer, Moderna vaccines over J&J due to rare blood clot casesCNBC
- MIT scientist tells British Parliament COVID likely began in lab
- Biden Says Unvaccinated Face Winter of Severe Illness, DeathBloomberg