Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Great Gatsby Curve: Relationship between inequality and mobility – Business Insider
- Coronavirus Is Different. Almost No Company Is Safe. – WSJ
- Trump could have stabilized markets more had he not muzzled the grown-up in the room, Dr Fauci – Bipartisan Press
- Krugman celebrates the market losing a Trillion dollars – National Sentinel
- Central bank: Rapid V-shaped recovery appears ‘grossly unrealistic’ – Yahoo
Americas:
- The typical US worker can no longer afford a family on a year’s salary, showing the dire state of America’s middle class – Business Insider
- Under President Trump, income growth has slowed across the U.S. – Newsweek
- How two uniquely American issues could make the coronavirus worse – Yahoo
- Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout – MSN
- The Fed can’t stop coronavirus from slamming the economy, but it could ease the pain – Market Watch
Europe:
- Greek civilians stop boat full of migrants and tell them to go back to Turkey – Streamable
- Greek soldiers fire warning shots at the border – Streamable
- Greece blocks 10,000 migrants at Turkish border – DW
- Italy reports 566 new cases and 5 new deaths, raising total to 1,694 cases and 34 dead – News Observatory
- Migrants handed jail terms for illegal entry – ekathimerini.com
- France Offers Nuclear Deterrent to All Europe – Arms Control
Asia:
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- Smartphone sales are collapsing in China. They could plunge 40% in Q1 – CNN
- China Posts Weakest Factory Activity on Record – Bloomberg
- China Makes Bad Loans Disappear as Virus Pummels Banks – Stock Market News
- World War Z author Max Brooks | China barred my dystopian novel about how its system enables epidemics – Washington Post
- China’s Decision to Leave Asymptomatic Patients off Coronavirus Infection Tally Sparks Debate – Caixing Global
- ‘They’re chasing me’: the journalist who wouldn’t stay quiet on Covid-19 – The Guardian
Trans-Tasman:
- Summers are now twice as long as winters in all Australian capital cities, report finds [Not in Melbourne] – ABC
- Chinese research vessel Xiang Yang Hong 01 tracked in waters near Christmas Island off Western Australia – ABC
- Tasmanian Government to invest $50m in hydrogen power plan – ABC
- Labor presses officials over sports grants scandal – The Guardian
- New laws making it easier for Victorian renters to have pets come into force – The Guardian
- Future of AAP in doubt as financial pressure mounts – The SMH
- Forget more compulsory super: here are 5 ways to actually boost retirement incomes – The Conversation
- Coronavirus hits Queensland family’s export dream with $600,000 of beef stuck in Shanghai – ABC
- Jump in new property listings in February as housing market remains buoyant – Interest.co.nz