Sunday Supplementary Links – 16 February 2020

Australian Head, to do with the blue, Michael Ramsden, 1974-79, Art Gallery of NSW

Macro & Markets

• Funds Face Trillion-Dollar Hit on Negative-Yielding Debt Pile – Bloomberg
• The World Is Conspiring to Make Gas Cheaper – Bloomberg…except in Australia…
• Coronavirus likely to infect the global economy – Harvard Gazette
• ‘Black swan’ coronavirus casts its shadow over the global economy – Guardian

Asia

• Coronavirus: Beijing orders two-week quarantine for returnees as death toll passes 1,500 – Guardian
• Coronavirus COVID-19 prompts China to lock down its megacities as the death toll climbs – ABC
• China’s central bank says lenders to tolerate higher bad loans to support virus-hit firms – Reuters
• Missing Chinese citizen journalists highlight risks of telling Wuhan’s story during coronavirus outbreak – SCMP
• How China-US mistrust pushed the WHO into a coronavirus corner – SCMP
• Xi Jinping ‘put China’s top echelon on notice’ in early days of coronavirus outbreak – SCMP

Americas

• Trump’s Rosy Economic Growth Forecast Isn’t Crazy – Bloomberg
• Trump administration eyes 10% middle-class tax cut proposal – Reuters
• Trump Administration Will Raise Tariffs on European Aircraft – NY Times
• The Benefits of Being Joe Biden’s Brother – ProPublica
• White House considering tax incentive for more Americans to buy stocks, sources say – CNBC…the show must go on…
• Here’s One Tax Every Candidate Ought to Back – Bloomberg

Europe

• German economy records zero growth in fourth quarter – DW
• ‘Escaping the madness’: steep rise in Londoners moving to northern England – Guardian

Terra Incognita

• Australia mulls evacuating passengers on stranded coronavirus cruise ship – Ninefax
• Albanese calls on Phil Gaetjens to make sports grants report public – Guardian
• Pork ‘n ‘Ride — another election-winning rort for the Coalition – Michael West …a fine quality headline if ever there was one…
• Things are looking desperate for the Government, and any distraction is a good one – ABC, Tingle
• Is Australia prepared? The next virus outbreak could be bioterrorism. – Pearls & Irritations
• The multi-million-dollar ‘dummy director’ scam using vulnerable Australians to rip off the tax office – ABC
• Coronavirus: China condemns Australian decision to extends travel ban for a week – Guardian

…and furthermore…

• Black on white: The amazing life of the simple barcode – DW
• The promise of automated historical data linkage – VoxEU
• Bank intermediation when interest rates are very low for long – VoxEU
• “Classical” Architecture Is Just One Way Tyrants Build in Their Own Image – Slate
• The origin and evolution of love – The Conversation
• The dark shadow in the injunction to ‘do what you love’ – Aeon
• The Case for Global Health Diplomacy – Project-Syndicate

United States – 401k Millionaires

China – Coal

World Crude Balance Outlook

Eurozone Industrial Production

Greek Debt Maturation

United States – Total Debt Composition