Mossack Fonseca is a Panamanian law firm that specializes in tax shelters. Now its internal documents have leaked, and are providing an inside view of the global elites' finances. Among the revelations: A look at the offshore wealth controlled by Vladimir Putin and his cronies. There are 2.6 terabytes of data to sift through, so expect many stories in the weeks to come.
[Matthew Yglesias | Vox ]

Speaking of money: Investors think the value of the dollar, which has gone up sharply as the Chinese economy has stumbled in the last year, will start to depreciate in 2016. This is good for tech companies, who complain that repricing their income abroad into expensive dollars eats into their revenue.
[Ira Iosebashvili | The Wall Street Journal]

Across the world, home-grown ride-hailing services are battling to beat Uber. Here's the rundown on Uber's opponents in Latin America, where the company is looking to grow its business beyond Mexico.
[Johana Bhuiyan | Re/code]

A few weeks ago, GM bought the self-driving car tech startup Cruise for $1 billion. Andreessen Horowitz, which is probably eyeing the size of that exit, just lead a $3 million investment in Comma.ai, the self-driving car startup led by the guy who first jailbroke an iPhone. Here's a video of Comma.ai's (very impressive-looking) technology.
[Johana Bhuiyan | Re/code]

On the latest episode of the Re/code Decode podcast, Kara Swisher talks with 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki about why you should care about your genes, the Theranos controversy and the speculation around Wojcicki's new boyfriend, New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez.
[Kara Swisher | Re/code]