Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- The next financial crisis: A collapse of the mortgage system – Politico
- The Great Depression didn’t have to happen. Neither does a covid-19 depression. – Washington Post
- Stop covid or save the economy? We can do both – Tech Review
- Innovative Economic Growth: Seven Stages of Understanding – Cato
- The Fed’s Balance Sheet: The Other Exponential Curve – Visual Capitalist
- Coronavirus could drive half a billion people into poverty worldwide, warns Oxfam – France 24
- ‘Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression’, IMF says – BBC
Americas:
- White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry – NPR
- Residential solar power significantly drives blue collar jobs far greater than utility scale – PV Magazine
- Hospitals cut pay, furlough workers to ease COVID-19 financial blow – MPR News
- One-Third Of U.S. Tenants Didn’t Pay Their Rents For April, May Could Be Worse – IB Times
- Argentina is months or even weeks far from defaulting its debt (it would be the ninth default in its history) – Brookings
- Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker relief in unemployment crisis – Washington Post
- Analyzing the $2 trillion US Economic Stimulus Package and It’s Impact – The Tidings Blog
- Trump signed budget deal and suspended debt ceiling until 2021. National debt is now $24.2 Trillion and rising rapidly. Should we care? – CBS News
- JPMorgan now sees economy contracting by 40% in second quarter, and unemployment reaching 20% – CNBC
Europe:
- Amsterdam to embrace ‘doughnut’ model to mend post-coronavirus economy – The Guardian
- The EU’s economic response to coronavirus helps only Europe’s enemies – The Guardian
- European Carbon Market Slashed Emissions Despite Low Prices – Environmental Leader
- Bruegel: Did the Eurogroup save the day? – Bruegel
- EU finance minsters agree Covid-19 rescue deal – RTE
- Bank of England to directly finance extra government spending – FT
- EU risks break-up over ‘coronabonds’ row, warns Italian PM – The Guardian
Asia:
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- China factory gate deflation deepens as coronavirus paralyses global economy – Reuters
- This Too Shall Pass: Charting India’s path out of the Pandemic – Medium
- Coronavirus: China claims stimulus ‘10 times more efficient’ than US Fed – SCMP
- China auto sales sink 48.4% in March as virus hurts demand – Washington Post
- China’s Bank of Gansu, hit by depositor nerves, moves to provide loans to state firms – Reuters
- How China’s industrial internet is helping to fight COVID-19 – WE Forum
Trans-Tasman:
- Early bedtime linked to healthy weight in children – UQ
- Why Australia needs to aim for at least 75% renewables by 2030 – Renew Economy
- The court case Australians are not allowed to know about: how national security is being used to bully citizens – The Guardian
- Police ‘inundated’ with calls over holiday home visitors on Easter weekend – The SMH
- Universities to cut prices on courses to help re-skill workers after coronavirus – SBS
- $43,000 in fines issued for Melbourne refugee protesters breaching coronavirus rules – SBS
- World-First Study in WA Proves Cannabis is Effective Against Insomnia – Pondering Pot
- Australian universities warn Covid-19 relief package not enough to stop 21,000 job losses – The Guardian
- Cut-price online courses to retrain jobless Australians – New Daily
- Government to announce coronavirus relief package for higher education with focus on domestic students – ABC
- Does Australia’s Covid-19 recovery need a Green New Deal? – Saturday Paper
- Panicked Australians have been rushing to withdraw cash – ‘into the millions’ in some cases – as markets tank – Business Insider
- ‘You simply have to accept that debt can’t be repaid when too much debt has been issued’ – Interest.co.nz
- To fight the pandemic, policymakers must move fast and break taboos – Interest.co.nz
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