Toy boys, 1990, Geoffrey Ricardo, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- In next downturn, Fed may opt for quick, strong action – Reuters
- The World’s Biggest Economies Get a Jolt of Government Spending – Bloomberg
- If slowing growth, unsound financial systems and the coronavirus don’t trigger a market meltdown, central banks will – SCMP
- U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin: Tax certainty needed on global basis – Reuters…is he talking the start of global tax settings?…
Asia
- Xi’s faction grabs more power as virus crisis worsens – Nikkei Asian Review
- India’s economic frustration and social tensions boil under Modi – Nikkei Asian Review
- China’s central bank will guide interest rates lower to aid virus-hit economy – state media – Reuters
- Coronavirus: China’s car sales collapse, as officials warn of sharp trade decline to come – SCMP
- Why the US Trade Agreement will slow China’s economy – Bruegel
Americas
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- U.S. watchdog proposes national standard for disclosing expired debt – Reuters
- New Deal, new patriots: How Roosevelt’s welfare programmes made America great again – VoxEU
- U.S. Consumers Are Piling Up Debt, and That’s Fine – Bloomberg
- Markets Expect a Rate Cut the Fed May Not Deliver – Bloomberg
Europe
- China watching uneasily as Germany picks Angela Merkel’s successor – SCMP
- Revealed: the areas in the UK with one Airbnb for every four homes – Guardian
- Populism, political risk and the economy: What we can learn from the Italian experience – VoxEU
- Coronavirus rocks the China-Russia partnership – Nikkei Asian Review
- ‘It’s felt life-ruining’: flat owners face huge bills for new cladding – Guardian
- European Union unveils plans to regulate AI – DW
- What is fuelling the Dutch house price boom? – Bruegel
Terra Incognita
- Government relaxes travel ban for some students from China – Ninefax
- The ego trip behind the push to lift ban on Chinese students – Ninefax, Babones
- No progress on wages, but we’re getting a better handle on why – Ninefax, Gittins
- Scourge of wage fraud demands action – Ninefax, Ferguson…all the more reason for a reinvigorated IRC, and workplace inspections…
- Coronavirus travel ban restrictions to be eased to allow some school students to return to Australia – ABC
- ATO and global tax fraud investigators target offshore accountants and lawyers – Guardian
- Has Australia’s Luck Run Out? – Project-Syndicate, Bildt
- Weird plan for billion-dollar privatisation of Australia’s visa system hits a snag – Michael West
- Probing Probe: inside the Government’s Robodebt collector – Michael West
- Tax reform in 2020 – Pearls and Irritations, Henry
- Sports rorts shows need for public sector re-think – Pearls and Irritations, Patton
- Look to India for exports as coronavirus slows Chinese economy – Ninefax
- The sports rorts remind us politics is a ‘game of mates’. We need an independent umpire – Guardian
- Fires and climate fears rattle Australia’s giant coal lobby – Reuters
…and furthermore…
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- ‘Worse than an aeroplane’: how being confined to a cruise ship fuelled the coronavirus spread – SCMP
- Could the coronavirus crisis sink the cruise industry? – SCMP
- Can computer translators ever beat speaking a foreign tongue? – BBC
- JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race – Guardian
- The Rich World Must Take Responsibility for Its Carbon Footprint – Project-Syndicate, Turner
- WHO Needs to Quit Being Polite With China – Bloomberg
…and Coronavirus…
- China reports fall in coronavirus cases, says economy resilient, but infections rising elsewhere – Reuters
- Coronavirus: sixfold surge in cases in South Korea but China reports fewer new infections – SCMP
- First coronavirus death in Italy as cases quintuple in a day – SCMP
- Coronavirus: US faces ‘tremendous public health threat’ as imported infections rise; World Health Organisation to start Wuhan inquiry – SCMP
- Coronavirus: ‘Narrowing window’ to contain outbreak, WHO says – BBC
- Coronavirus May Be the ‘Disease X’ Health Agency Warned About – Bloomberg
- Coronavirus outbreak: South Korea church cluster drives huge jump in cases – Guardian
- Coronavirus: asymptomatic Wuhan woman shows why outbreak ‘will be hard to stop’ – Guardian
- With 4 Deaths in Iran and More Cases on 3 Continents, Fears of Coronavirus Pandemic Rise – NY Times
- Coronavirus Outbreak Deepens Its Toll on Global Business – NY Times
- South Korea churchgoer drives surge in infections – Nikkei Asian Review