January 19, 2021

Markets & Economy. 

• Public and private sector payroll jobs during presidential terms (caculatedrisk) 
• China’s national emissions trading may launch in mid-2021 (reuters)
• Weighing the week ahead: what will Biden proposals mean for investors? (dashofinsight) 
• Weekly macro summary (primarydealer) 
• The periodic table of commodity returns 2021 edition (visualcapitalist) 

Cryptocurrencies, digital currencies, and the future of money.

• An economic analysis of ethereum (lynalden) 
• Grayscale Q4 digital asset report (grayscale) 

Technology.

• The moderation war is coming (onezero)

Environment.

• We need to talk about the rapid decline in insects around the world (sciencealert) 
• Donors pledge $14 bln for ‘green wall’ to hold back Sahara (tribuneindia) 
• “Cautious optimism” about fighting climate change (salon)
• The plan to build a global network of floating power stations (wired)
• Why it’s falling to you and not your government to decarbonize the food system (forbes)
• 2020 smashed the record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, NOAA says (cnn)

January 6, 2021

Economy: making the irrational, rational.

• U.S. home prices rise at fastest pace in more than 6 years (cnbc)
• Does working from home make employees more productive? (economist)
• There were only four US bank failures in 2020 (calculatedrisk)
• What happened to Europe’s economy after the Black Death (bloomberg)
• What to expect in 2021 according to prediction markets (economist)

Carbonomics: changing global climate policy.

• World’s oceans in distress, but radical reduction in greenhouses gas emissions can make a difference (spiegel)
• Could we ever pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to stop climate change? (space)

Environment: the not so silent crisis.

• New rules to tackle ‘wild west’ of plastic waste dumped on poorer countries (guardian)
• Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado’s Water (NYT)

Cryptocurrencies: the future of money.

• Bitcoin is breaking records because bigger investors are buying it now, says PwC (cnbc)
• Federally chartered banks and thrifts may participate in independent node verification networks and use stablecoins for payment activities (occ.gov)