‘Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide’, 1890, Arthur Streeton, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- The perils of more debt – Bruegel
- Shockwave: Adam Tooze on the pandemic’s consequences for the world economy – London Review of Books
- Monetisation: Do not panic – VoxEU, Blanchard, Pisani-Ferry
- OPEC’s Plan To Take Over The Global Oil Industry – Oilprice
- Global pact to contain oil price crash takes shape – AP
- This Pandemic Will Lead to Social Revolutions – Bloomberg
Americas
- America is still failing on coronavirus testing – Vox
- The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus crisis – Vox
- The Pandemic Will Cleave America in Two – The Atlantic
- U.S. consumer prices post largest drop in five years amid coronavirus disruptions – Reuters
- Fed policymakers working to limit damage as pandemic puts U.S. economy on pause – Reuters
- Economists see uneven jobs recovery, high U.S. unemployment through 2021 – Reuters
- Another U.S.-Wide Housing Slump Is Coming – Bloomberg
- Torn Over Reopening Economy, Trump Says He Faces ‘Biggest Decision I’ve Ever Had to Make’ – NY Times
Asia
- Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano shoots ash, lava – AP
- China’s Participation in the WHO Comes at a Price – Bloomberg
- Where US and China will clash after the plague – Asia Times
- Asia must brace for new age of protectionism – Nikkei Asian Review
Europe
- EBRD drops a COVID-19 dambuster on Russian sanctions – BNE Intellinews, Corcoran
- Put Kolomoisky on all the international sanctions lists – BNE Intellinews, Aris
- Why Sweden is Europe’s coronavirus outlier and what it means – New Statesman
- Why does Spain have the world’s highest coronavirus mortality rate? – El Pais
- Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism – Guardian, O’Toole
Terra Incognita
- The ill-fated journey of cruise ship the Ruby Princess – Ninefax
- Triumph of unity is PM’s resurrection – Ninefax, Hartcher…I guess Peter is mixing in different circles…
- Virus fight leaves Australia with a mountain of debt, so how will we deal with it? – Ninefax
- Headlines promise Australia’s on the ‘cusp’ of defeating coronavirus. We’re not and it’s too soon to relax restrictions – The Conversation
- Australia ‘on cusp’ of virus dying out – Canberra Times
- From jaws of death to lifeline: Private health insurers’ unexpected windfall – Ninefax
…and furthermore…
- We’re on the Brink of Cyberpunk – Slate
- Apple, Google Bring Covid-19 Contact-Tracing to 3 Billion People – Bloomberg
- Inside the Beatles’ messy breakup, 50 years ago – The Conversation
- WHO sounds alarm over new Ebola case in Congo – DW
- Cruise firms face ‘off-the-scale’ challenge in wake of coronavirus – Guardian
- The Greater Trade Collapse of 2020: Learnings from the 2008-09 Great Trade Collapse – VoxEU, Baldwin
…and coronavirus…
- COVID-19: The self-employed are hardest hit and least supported – Bruegel
- Bat virus? Bioweapon? What the science says about Covid-19 origins – SCMP
- The cold, hard maths of whether a coronavirus shutdown is worth everyone’s loss of quality of life – SCMP
- Two-Thirds of Severe Covid-19 Cases Improved on Gilead Drug – Bloomberg
- Why pandemics create conspiracy theories – New Statesman
- COVID, remobilisation and the ‘stringency possibility corridor’: Creating wealth while protecting health – VoxEU, Baldwin
- Doctor’s Note: Can coronavirus cause permanent damage? – Al Jazeera
Sunday Coronavirus lockdown Youtube classic viewing
The Shock of the New 1980
Presented as well as written by Australian, Robert Hughes, this series on Art History from the mid 19th Century to the 1960s provides an often witty and always thought provoking look at the evolution of painting and its relationship with society. Anyone after some thought provoking observations on our contemporary politics, or a better awareness about art history, could do far worse than to start with this series.
Gunna
Episode 1 – The Mechanical Paradise
Episode 2 – The Powers that be
Episode 3 – The Landscape of Pleasure
Episode 4 – Trouble in Utopia
Episode 5 – The Threshold of Liberty
Episode 6 – The View from the Edge
Episode 7 – Culture as Nature
Episode 8 – The Future that Was