Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Covid-19 has exposed our financial fragility – Unherd
- Covid-19: Beyond Caution and Normality – Medium
- The Robots Have Won. What Do We Do With the Humans? – Medium
- Dow Jones has worst week since 2008 – Igorb News
- Coronavirus: Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation – Straits Times
- These Five Warning Signs Highlight Virus’s Rapid Economic Impact – Stock Market News
- Why This Is Not a Recession. It’s an Ice Age. – The Atlantic
- Outgrowing growth: why quality of life, not GDP, should be our measure of success – The Correspondent
Americas:
- Unemployment Headed For 40-Year High—And Trump Reportedly Tells States Not To Release Data – Forbes
- Fmr Labor Secretary: No Bailouts for Big Companies, Use Money To Help People – Bipartisan Press
- Goldman Sachs now says US GDP will shrink 24% next quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic – which would be 2.5 times bigger than any decline in history – Business Insider
- US Real Estate in Jeopardy – Analysts Predict Housing Market Crash to 29-Year Lows – News Bitcoin
- “US economy to fall behind China within a year” — Standard Chartered – Business Insider
- Wall Street Is Turning Away Some of America’s Safest Borrowers – Bloomberg
- Cramer worries that post-coronavirus US could have just three retailers: Amazon, Walmart, Costco – CNBC
- S&P warns 1 in 10 US firms may default on debt – Tech Xplore
Europe:
- Italy, Coronavirus: 793 new deaths today. +4821 new cases – Republica
- Czech Republic seized thousands of masks sent from China to Italy – Republica
- Italy’s worst-hit region announces stricter measures – BBC
- COVID-19: Commission creates first ever rescEU stockpile of medical equipment – Europa
- Emmanuel Macron threatened Boris Johnson to close the French borders if he did not decide on sanitary measures – Liberation
Asia:
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- India’s forex reserves plunge by $5.34 bn – Yuv News
- Chinese economy headed for its first quarterly contraction since 1992 – Economo
- Foreign Ministers of South Korea, China, Japan Support Tokyo Holding “Complete” Olympics – Reuters
- Why Are Japan’s Millennials Shunning Alcohol? – Japan Times
- How Singapore Stayed One Step Ahead of the Coronavirus – BBC
- China’s $118 Billion Virus Lending Push Stymied by Bureaucratic Confusion – Reuters
Trans-Tasman:
- Victoria WILL close schools on Tuesday even if other states/federal governments disagree – ABC
- Government’s $66 billion coronavirus stimulus package includes DOUBLING Newstart payment. – ABC
- Bondi backpackers among 97 new coronavirus cases in NSW – The SMH
- South Australia to close borders in response to coronavirus pandemic – ABC
- Australia’s first offshore wind farm gains ground with new contract – Renew Economy
- Government Chart for who will receive each support payment (1st $750, 2nd $750, fortnightly $550) – Treasury.gov.au
- NSW has shutdown just in time to avoid overloading ICU capacity – Medium
- Bankster Bailout: will the trickle-down package trickle beyond the banks and big business? – Michael West
- Can I get COVID-19 twice? This Nobel prize winner is sceptical – ABC
- Doctors unhappy as employers tell staff not to return to work until they test negative for coronavirus – ABC
- The false crisis comparison – Interest.co.nz