Street in Old Sydney, 1889, Godfrey Rivers, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- Keeping Up with the Fed – Project-Syndicate
- China and US must cooperate to lead world out of coronavirus danger – Nikkei Asian Review
- Trump Casts Doubt on Future of China Trade Deal After Phone Call – Bloomberg
- IMF warns of further drop in global growth due to Covid-19 – Guardian
- With oil prices depressed, China presides over a buyer’s market – Economist
- The Phony War on the Coronavirus – Bloomberg
Asia
- Coronavirus: China to revive special ‘off-budget bonds’ as pandemic stokes debt dilemma – SCMP
- PBoC ends quota restrictions for foreign investors – Asia Times
- US, Australia play good cop, bad cop with China – Asia Times
- China’s agreement to buy US products becomes key to saving trade deal – SCMP
- China’s economy peeps through Covid-19 rubble – Asia Times
Americas
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- No ‘V’-shape return from devastating U.S. job loss, Fed policymakers say – Reuters
- Coronavirus deals U.S. economy Great Depression-like job losses, high unemployment – Reuters
- Trump ‘torn’ over U.S.-China trade deal as officials push to fulfill its terms – Reuters
- Coronavirus has Brazil on verge of economic collapse and food shortages, leaders warn – ABC
- Restructuring Argentina’s Private Debt is Essential – Project-Syndicate, Stiglitz
- As pandemic continues, Argentina faces bankruptcy again – Project-Syndicate
- U.S. job market suffers its worst month in history – CBS news
- How Bad Is Unemployment? ‘Literally Off the Charts’ – NY Times
- Vector in Chief – NY Review of Books
- This Ugly Jobs Report Is Just the Beginning – Bloomberg
- Venezuela’s Coronavirus Crisis Is Different – The Atlantic
- There’s One Big Reason Why the U.S. Economy Can’t Reopen – The Atlantic
- The state of employment in pandemic America, in 6 charts – Vox
- We Now Have the Worst Unemployment Rate Since the Great Depression – Slate
Europe
- UK ‘to bring in 14-day quarantine’ for air passengers – BBC
- Bank of England offers hope amid Covid-19’s grim economic spectacle – Guardian
- Germany’s Constitutional Court Goes Rogue – Project-Syndicate
- Coronavirus: EU urges closing external borders until mid-June – Deutsche Welle
- German Foreign Minister Maas warns of hard Brexit as talks stall – Deutsche Welle
- Bailouts will not mean austerity, euro zone countries told – Irish Times
- ‘Harvesting’ is a terrible word – but it’s what has happened in Britain’s care homes – Guardian
- Cultural and economic discrimination by the Great Leveller: The COVID-19 pandemic in the UK – VoxEU
- Don’t do it again! The Swedish experience with negative central bank rates in 2015-2019 – VoxEU
Terra Australis
- Australia backs BP’s study to produce hydrogen from wind, solar – Reuters
- Keneally has picked the wrong fight for this pink-collar recession – Ninefax, Megalogenis
- The hidden costs of the pandemic – Ninefax, Wade
- Traditional skills in trades needed for new jobs in advanced manufacturing – Ninefax
- Coronavirus shutdown easing will provide only a moderate economic boost – ABC, Janda
- Banking overhaul recommended by royal commission delayed amid coronavirus crisis – ABC
- Coronavirus may take home ownership further out of reach for younger Australians – ABC
- Australia’s landlords hold all the power – getting a rent reduction was a small miracle – Guardian
- Temporary Highly Skilled Migration – a lifeline that needs managing, not axing or cutting – Pearls & Irritations, Roach
- Boomers & Millennials: an aftermath of austerity will kill Australians too – Michael West
- We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants – The Conversation
- The Reserve Bank thinks the recovery will look V-shaped. There are reasons to doubt it – The Conversation, Martin
- Coronavirus: Australia’s central bank expects worst economic slump on record as government lays out reboot plans – Straits Times
- Already in this crisis we are slipping into over-optimism about the economy and over-pessimism about debt – Guardian, Swan
- Crowds swarm to shopping centres as coronavirus restrictions begin to ease, causing alarm over lack of social distancing – ABC
…and furthermore…
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- Coronavirus: China can turn the tables on the US with a science-led probe into Covid-19’s origins – SCMP
- The life-saving medicines inspired by animals – BBC
- The harder reality of humanity’s road to the future – Pearls & Irritations, Scrafton
- Should tax dodgers get taxpayer-funded COVID-19 bailout? – Michael West
- Covid-19 won’t stop environmental catastrophe – Asia Times
- Did a space ‘visitor’ strike the mighty taiga? – Asia Times
- How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease – ProPublica
- Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us? – Aeon…does meaning still exist?…
- Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good – Aeon
…and coronavirus…
- France had Covid-19 in November, hospital says after analysis of chest scans – SCMP
- Sperm containing coronavirus raises possibility of sexually transmitted Covid-19, Chinese study shows – SCMP
- How Ebola Helped Africa Prepare for Coronavirus – Bloomberg
- Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses? – The Conversation
- Kawasaki disease symptoms observed in coronavirus-infected children – Nikkei Asian Review
- Coronavirus: The tide is coming for medicinal cannabis – Deutsche Welle
- US claims of China coronavirus lab leak an ‘attempt to distract’ from Trump’s own mistakes: Germany – SCMP
- You’ll Probably Never Know If You Had the Coronavirus in January – The Atlantic
- The emerging long-term complications of Covid-19, explained – Vox