‘Evening, St Kilda Road’, Circa 1930, Clarice Beckett, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- The Road to Reopening the Economy Is Still Long – Bloomberg
- The WHO’s coronavirus response shows that the organisation is broken, but fixing it must wait – SCMP
- Asian LNG prices sink again as coronavirus disrupts demand – Reuters
- Coronavirus has destroyed the myth of the deficit – Guardian, Nersisyan & Wray
- A Wild Ride for Global Supply Chains Captured in Seven Charts – Bloomberg
- A double recession? Economies risk debt crises after stimulus spending – CNBC
Asia
- ‘It will come back to haunt us’: inside warnings against China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ coronavirus diplomacy – SCMP
- China GDP: Bleak outlook for economic recovery post-virus – BBC
- What influence does China have over the WHO? – DW
- How China Sees the World: And how we should see China – The Atlantic
- Saudi Arabia Should Spend Like the Debtor It Is – Bloomberg, Fickling
- China fails to ease global ‘depression’ fears – Asia Times
- Xi fears Japan-led manufacturing exodus from China – Nikkei Asian Review
- What we can learn from the “second wave” of coronavirus cases in Asia – Vox
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Americas
- U.S. announces $19 billion coronavirus aid for farmers, food buys for poor – Reuters
- The Spies Who Predicted COVID-19 – Project-Syndicate
- At Least 22 Million Americans Are Out Of A Job — And We Haven’t Hit Bottom – FiveThirtyEight
- 6 things the Federal Reserve can still do to fight the recession – Vox
- ‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes – NY Times
- The Trickle-Up Bailout: It’s early days, but the Federal Reserve “bazooka” has mostly impacted the 1% – Matt Taibbi
Europe
- When the coronavirus crisis is over, Britain owes its young people a decent future – Guardian, Toynbee
- EU state aid policies in the time of COVID-19 – VoxEU
- EU at ‘moment of truth’ after crisis divisions – Irish Times
- Universities facing huge losses due to fall in foreign students – Irish Times
- How likely is an extension to the Brexit negotiations? – NewStatesman
- Russia is flush with cash but preparing for the worst just in case – BNE Intellinews, Aris
- Spain’s jobless rate is set to surge much more than in countries like Italy – CNBC
Terra Specufestorus
- As Australia self-isolates from the world, economic recovery hangs in the balance – Ninefax, Megalogenis
- ‘I was caught up in a degrading and corrupt parody of democracy’ – Ninefax, Turnbull…Australia’s last PM states overtly the definitive perception of every Australian of their political process for more than a generation…
- Coronavirus app will not be forced upon Australians, Scott Morrison says – ABC
- As coronavirus threat slows the PM hints at how policy will be redrawn to match ideology – ABC, Tingle
- Politicians are demanding answers from China about coronavirus. Some want to take things even further– ABC
- Climate change likely to blame for dwindling Murray-Darling inflows, report finds – Guardian
- Don’t panic: Australia has truly excellent food security – The Conversation
- Overpaid university bosses cry poor as their foreign-student riches evaporate – Michael west
- Wet winter likely as speculation over La Nina and a negative IOD mounts – ABC
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…and furthermore…
- Nasa to launch first manned mission from US in decade – BBC
- Bats: Secrets of the flying mammal – DW
- Oil and gas companies exploit coronavirus to roll back environmental regulations – DW
- The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers – The Atlantic
- The Supermarket After the Pandemic – The Atlantic
- How Global Public Health Could Revive Multilateralism – Project-Syndicate…and make Australian public health an export?…
- Debt Relief Is the Most Effective Pandemic Aid – Project-Syndicate, Brown & Summers
- Negative interest rate policy in the post COVID-19 world – VoxEU
- Workforce demographics and the flattening of COVID-19’s curve of infections – VoxEU
- Big Government Is Bad for Productivity – Bloomberg, Shilling
- Why public procurement openness is more important now than ever – VoxEU
- Central banks must print money for nation rebuilding – Pearls & Irritations, Allan
- History shows future generations don’t need to suffer from government debt – Michael West
- To tackle the climate crisis, the world cannot return to normal after Covid-19 – New Statesman…my son is already touting the environmental effects as a major upside to coronavirus…
…and coronavirus…
- Coronavirus: drugs including remdesivir may prove effective before vaccine is available, South Korean expert says – SCMP
- The coronavirus pandemic is nature’s wake-up call to humans who have lost their Way – SCMP
- Coronavirus: five months on, what scientists now know about Covid-19 – Guardian
- A Wake-Up Call – Pearls & Irritations, Haigh
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Chinese doctor who discovered virus in Wuhan recounts first days of outbreak – NZ Herald