‘Kosciusko’ 1930, Will Ashton, Art Gallery of NSW
Macro & Markets
- China, US to hold phase one trade deal talks ‘in the coming days’ – SCMP
- China’s wish to end US dollar dominance is unlikely to come true with no genuine challenger in the wings – SCMP
- U.S., China differ over plans for Phase 1 trade deal talks – Reuters
- Alexei Navalny: Doctors say Putin critic can’t be moved to Germany – BBC
- Alexei Navalny: Russian doctors refuse permission to fly comatose dissident to Germany – DW
- Global race to buy coronavirus vaccine: What you need to know – DW
- Fears grow that China may use U.S. debt as weapon amid trade friction – Japan Times
- Why China is taking over the ‘American century’ – Asia Times
- The Euro’s Strength Against the Dollar Might Become Contagious – Bloomberg
Americas
- At Least Americans Don’t Have So Much Debt This Time – Bloomberg
- The evolution of US manufacturing – VoxEU
- US jobless claims rise back above one million – BBC
- US to probe alleged dumping of Chinese trailer chassis and sub-assemblies – SCMP
- Rise in U.S. weekly jobless claims clouds labor market recovery – Reuters
- Working from home raises questions about U.S. inequality: Fed panel – Reuters
- The Forgotten $1 Trillion Supporting the Economy – Bloomberg
- Your Net Worth Is America’s Secret Economic Weapon – Bloomberg
- Government shutdowns of “nonessential” retailers were a huge gift for Amazon, Walmart, and Target – Vox
- The Country That Was Built to Fall Apart – Slate
- We Have Crossed the Line Debt Hawks Warned Us About for Decades – NY Times
Asia
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- India Slaps New Curbs on Visas, Schools to Stem China Influence – Bloomberg
- India, Japan, Australia keen to boost supply chain security by reducing reliance on China – SCMP
- China reluctant to hit back at US firms over Washington’s new Huawei ‘death sentence’ – SCMP
- China keeps loan rate steady for fourth straight month – SCMP
- Japan’s consumer prices mired as deflation spectre looms – Reuters
- ASEAN ‘crisis like no other’ shifts focus from COVID to economy – Nikkei Asian Review
- Japan may allow in all stranded foreign residents from September – Japan Times
- Inflation remains at zero even as Japan’s economy starts to reopen – Japan Times
- China pivots to old ally Pakistan for coal after Australia spat – Nikkei Asian Review
- China’s floods pull Xi and Li away from Beijing at same time – Nikkei Asian Review
- China pushes on with Central Asia trade ambitions despite missing Kyrgyz rail link – BNE Intellinews
- Thai automakers regear for the post-Covid race – Asia Times
- Covid-hit Japan now paying banks to lend – Asia Times
- China Just Killed Its $491 Billion Private Loan Market – Bloomberg
Europe
- Coronavirus: Germany to take on more debt in 2021 to tackle pandemic – DW
- UK nightlife industry facing ‘financial armageddon’ – Guardian
- Brexit: ‘Clock is ticking,’ warns EU’s Michel Barnier – DW
- Covid-19 drives UK national debt to £2tn for first time – Guardian
- UK private sector expands at fastest pace in seven years – Guardian
- After polarisation: Stable consensus on European mutual assistance is possible – VoxEU
- Hungary’s illiberal leader says the West has lost its appeal – BNE Intellinews
- Transatlantic technologies: Why did the ICT revolution fail to boost European productivity growth? – VoxEU
- The 22-Year-Old Blogger Behind Protests in Belarus – The Atlantic
- Coronavirus digest: Russia to begin vaccine trials on 40,000 people next week – DW
- UK nuclear power: The next Huawei? – DW
- Zombie firms: Will a wave of insolvencies hit Germany? – DW
- Russia’s capital account remains the weak link for RUB depreciation – BNE Intellinews
Terra Specufestorus
- Government will ‘carefully consider’ scrapping super guarantee rise: PM – Ninefax
- Westpac sells vendor finance business to focus on core banking – Reuters
- Chinese students in Australia leave as coronavirus upends study – SCMP
- Reserve Bank staff fume at ABC report exposing internal tensions over house price crash fears – ABC
- Westfield locks retailers out of stores as national retail sales rise 3.3 per cent – ABC
- Australia’s winemakers may be hoping in vain China drops anti-dumping case as it did with the EU – SCMP
- Scott Morrison defends aged care minister who didn’t know number of Covid deaths – Guardian
- International travel cap keeping out 18,000 Australians who want to come home – Guardian
- Insurance giant Suncorp to end coverage and finance for oil and gas industry – Guardian
- Two gold nuggets worth $350,000 found in Australia – BBC
- Hotel quarantine officer quit over coronavirus safety concerns, as inquiry hears of ‘dehumanising’ experiences – ABC…the bullshit of our age…
- China to power world economy for several years as coronavirus recovery in developed countries lags, miner BHP says – SCMP
- Employers face huge backpay hit if High Court decision goes against them – Ninefax
- States urged to spend another $40b in Reserve Bank call on jobs – Ninefax
- It may be a terrible recession, but it could have been worse – Ninefax
- Bordering on dangerous: the economic case against opening states – Ninefax
- Why Trump shouldn’t compare America’s Covid-19 outbreak to New Zealand’s, in one chart – Vox
- Barnaby Joyce signed off $80m for Angus Taylor’s old company after zero was paid for same sort of water nearby – Michael West
- Snouts in the superannuation trough: turbo-charging Paul Keating’s legacy – Michael West
- The erosion of The Age is like the erosion of society – Pearls & Irritations…same could be said for all of Australia’s media…
- The current signs are ominous, and Australia is possibly stumbling blindly towards war. – Pearls & Irritations, Scrafton
- Industrial policy makes a comeback – Pearls & Irritations
- The COVID-19 lockdown appears to have had only a minor impact on overseas student numbers so far and may have had no impact on migrant worker numbers – Interest.co.nz
- Any debate on immigration has to consider the fixed natural resources that have to be spread across increasing numbers of citizens – Interest.co.nz
- $37.7 million is a new Australian record. Why our corporate chiefs are paid so well – The Conversation
- It’s hard to tell why China is targeting Australian wine. There are two possibilities – The Conversation
…and furthermore….
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- Job insecurity, low pay, working from home: we’re all millennials now – Guardian
- Stress, burnout and redundancy: Tough times in IT – BBC
- COVID-19 in emerging markets: Escaping the monetary policy procyclicality trap – VoxEU
- Robots should be taxed, for a while – VoxEU
- Which programming language is best for economic research: Julia, Matlab, Python or R? – VoxEU
- The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis – VoxEU
- Managing volatile capital flows in emerging and frontier markets – VoxEU
- Fiscal austerity and the rise of the Nazis – VoxEU
- The meat we eat is a pandemic risk, too – Vox
- Apple’s Fortnite ban, explained – Vox
- Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart – The Atlantic
- The GoFundMe Economy Was Never Going to Work – The Atlantic
- Continent-Size Pressure Waves Are Rippling Through Earth’s Atmosphere – The Atlantic
- Taxes are not a burden: they provide many of the good things in life – Michael West
- TAFE has been drained of funds for poorly performing and dodgy private providers – Pearls & Irritations
- Unmaking socio-economic cohesion – part 1 & Part II – Pearls & Irritations
- Gig workers falling through pandemic protection – Pearls & Irritations
- Don’t drink the tea: Poison is a favored weapon in Russia – Japan Times
- David Mahon says politically they may be polarised, but the US and Chinese economies are intertwined through the global trading and financial system making Washington’s ‘decoupling’ aim a fantasy