Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- For the past 50 years, hard work has brought the poor nothing – Aljazeera
- Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products – WSJ
- Executives are selling stock as the market experiences its epic rebound – CNBC
- Here’s where the S&P 500 may head next after bouncing nearly 50% off March lows – CNBC
- Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All – WSJ
- Companies are stopping coronavirus-related perks, benefits for employees, customers – VOX
- US dollar at risk of sudden collapse? Ex-IMF official warns ‘blow-up event’ could sink currency as debt mounts – Yahoo
- Global V-shaped recovery stopped in its tracks – Recession Daily
Americas:
- Nearly 16,000 restaurants have closed permanently in the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Yelp data shows – ABC News
- Foreign students whose courses are 100% online won’t be given visas to enter the US this year – Mazech
- A Lot of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes – The Atlantic
- Economic Collapse the Worst in US History – stephenlendman.org
- The GOP plan to slash unemployment benefits puts the whole economic recovery at risk – Mother Jones
- The US Mint is pleading with Americans to ‘start spending their coins’ after the coronavirus pandemic sparked a national shortage – Business Insider
- The Worst for U.S. Renters and Apartment Owners Is Yet to Come – Bloomberg
Europe:
- German consumers are gradually leaving the coronavirus shock behind – Economic Daily
- Poland to leave European treaty on violence against women – Politico
- Coronavirus: Spain drives fears of European ‘second wave’ – BBC
- France to impose on-the-spot fines for drugs use – BBC
- UK brings back 14-day quarantine for Spain – BBC
- Joint EU debt must not become a regular thing: Germany’s Weidmann – Reuters
- Free speech row over new hate crime bill – BBC
Asia:
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- Goldman Sachs Settles with Malaysia for $3.9 Billion Over 1MDB Corruption Scheme – BBC
- Hopes high for Singapore-Malaysia cross-border travel – Straits Times
- Taiwan Shows How to Carefully Snip Chinese Economic Ties – Foreign Policy
- In Silencing Its People, China Invites Disaster: A Dissident’s Perspective – Green European Journal
- Officials Push U.S.-China Relations Toward Point of No Return – NY Times
- HSBC denies Chinese media reports that it ‘framed’ Huawei – Reuters
- How Britain can tame China – Spectator
Trans-Tasman:
- Indigenous Doctors Association calls for Sydney BLM protest to be postponed – SBS
- Black Lives Matter protest in Sydney blocked after Supreme Court win for police – ABC
- Please stop calling healthcare workers ‘heroes’. It’s killing us – The SMH
- Foxtel’s residential subscriptions plunged by nearly 200,000 in 2019 – The Guardian
- Families withdraw from childcare as fees resume – The SMH
- Grey import EVs? No thanks, says Australia’s car industry – New Daily
- With almost 300 COVID cases, why are meatworks at the centre of so many clusters? – ABC
- Coronavirus is a shared battle, but the young people feeling economic pain now will ultimately come out on top – ABC
- Workplace insecurity pervades the whole economy, just when every job is under threat – The Guardian
- The economic picture the Government is trying to paint just doesn’t seem to hang together – ABC
- Big drop in the number of new homes completed in Auckland post-lockdown – Interest.co.nz