Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Due to government and regulatory failures, from the SEC to the FIO, banks, investment and insurance firms are shamelessly inflating, manipulating and destroying our economy, markets, pensions and retirement funds. – Rolling Stone
- Gary Cohn Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It Ever Wanted From the Trump Administration – The Intercept
- Ranking the World’s Biggest Economies Over the Last 40 Years – How Much
- Google to start offering bank accounts in 2021 – Tear Sheet
- ‘New Normal’ Emerges for Companies Navigating Covid-19 Pandemic – WSJ
- The Seven Deadly Sins of the Current Monetary and Financial System That Will Cause Its Collapse – Medium
Americas:
- Retail rents plummet across New York City, as America’s glitzy shopping districts turn into ghost towns – CNBC
- Rents plunge in priciest US cities; San Fran, NYC, Boston, DC lead collapse – Wolf Street
- Colleges Move to Lay Off Faculty as COVID-19 Decimates Budgets – US News
- The Eye of the Bankruptcy Storm – NY Times
- Can better zoning regulations rescue devastated retail sector? – Wolf Street
Europe:
- A second COVID-19 wave will be even more disastrous for the German economy – Finances Herald
- The crisis has brought the Italian economy back to pre-Eurozone levels – Economo
- ‘This is for my children’: Hong Kongers prepare to seize UK offer of a new life – Sky
- Outcry in Sweden after 12-year-old-girl killed by stray bullet – The Guardian
- Refugee crisis worsening in southern Europe – DW
- Tourism spend in Spain drops by 98.6 percent – Politico
Asia:
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- France says it will not ratify extradition treaty with Hong Kong – Reuters
- Malaysia’s Ruling Parties Split By Guilty Verdict on Former Prime Minister Najib Razak – Nikkei
- North Korea Has ‘Probably’ Developed Nuclear Devices to Fit Ballistic Missiles: U.N. Report – Japan Times
- Philippines: Manila Returning to Lockdown as Coronavirus Cases Surge – Japan
- India and China race to build along a tense frontier – BBC
- The World Needs to Grow a Pair to Stop China – China Law Blog
Trans-Tasman:
- Cotton Growers in Australia Whacked Again as Chinese Buyer Shuts – Bloomberg
- Queensland man claiming to be consular official bypassed hotel quarantine, was private security contractor, DFAT reveals – ABC
- Victorians who repeatedly breach coronavirus restrictions to face $20,000 fines – ABC
- A former Coalition minister has slammed the federal government’s handling of aged care and called for major structural change – The SMH
- Mutual obligations return for JobSeeker recipients outside Victoria – ABC
- Calls grow for domestic travellers flying from Victoria to NSW to undergo mandatory hotel quarantine – SBS
- Q+A: ‘catastrophic’ Covid-19 outbreaks in aged care could have been prevented, doctors say – The Guardian
- House prices are teetering on a knife edge as Victoria suffers second wave – New Daily
- Jacinda Ardern: no trans-Tasman travel bubble for ‘some time to come’ – The Guardian
- Coronavirus Victoria: Woolworths says union action over virus scare ‘incredibly disappointing’ – News.com.au
- ‘Thoughtless’ Boomers are refusing to wear face masks – News.com.au
- Victoria’s Covid industry shutdown to throw one in seven of its workers out of employment – The Guardian
- Federal government establishes $1,500 paid leave for Victorians who need to isolate – SBS
- ‘An endless game of Covid-19 whack-a-mole’: Why Melbourne’s stage 4 lockdown should cover all of Victoria – Stuff.co.nz
- ‘Complete nonsense’ to say future generations will be burdened with government’s COVID debt – Interest.co.nz
- ANZ economists see ‘material risk’ of double-dip recession – Interest.co.nz
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