Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Hunger after COVID-19 could kill more people in 2020 than the virus itself – Economo
- The coronavirus has proven that globalization is not dead – Finances Herald
- World trade is recovering faster than after the financial crisis – Economic Daily
- How Money and Markets Mutilate Medicine: Why creating life-saving drugs is a lousy bet – Nature
- Bubbles and Crashes: When the Invisible Hand Dishes Out an Invisible Punch in the Nose – The Economic Historian
Americas:
- Trump’s businesses are full of dirty Russian money. The scandal is that it’s legal. – Washington Post
- The Housing Market is Heading for a Cliff – Medium
- Fed’s Mortgage-Buying Spree at $1 Trillion With No End in Sight – Bloomberg
- Home prices suddenly see biggest gains in 2 years – CNBC
- U.S. Job Gains for Next Decade Projected To Be Much Slower Than After 2008 Crisis – Bloomberg
- Trump administration announces nationwide eviction moratorium through end of the year – USA Today
Europe:
- The coronavirus led the Italian economy to a record decline – Economo
- Bank of Norway puts billionaire in charge of $ 1,000 billion fund – Business devilhunter
- Male suicides at highest rate in two decades in UK, official data shows – Sky
- Austria to file charges against Turkish spy: interior minister – Reuters
- For the Kremlin, Aleksei Navalny Is a Threat It Cannot Speak Of – NY Times
- Belarus riot police attack and arrest students – BBC
- Italian migrant hotspot on the brink of collapse after nearly a thousand migrants disembark – Euro News
Asia:
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- Japan, India and Australia with a joint trade initiative against China – Economic Daily
- Rare rallies in China over Mongolian language curb – BBC
- Philippines Says Won’t Halt Projects with China Firms Blacklisted by U.S. – Reuters
- Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China – Reuters
- Merkel’s top diplomat Heiko Maas warns China over Taiwan ‘threats’ – Straits Times
- Jackie Chan’s Mansion Seized – NTD
Trans-Tasman:
- COVID recession confirmed as Australia’s economy posts its biggest fall on record – ABC
- Labor says it wants to stop Coalition turning green bank into fossil fuel ‘slush fund’ – The Guardian
- How the Catholic school system takes from the poor to give to the rich – ABC
- Rich getting richer and poor slipping further back, with youth inequality growing fastest, ACOSS says – ABC
- Home Affairs Minister to get power to strip terrorists’ citizenship – The Age
- Pandemic goldmine for private unemployment agencies as Coalition boosts payments – Michael West
- Michael Pascoe: Treasurer without a plan turns to vaudeville – New Daily
- Tenants union calls for extension to freeze on rental evictions to stop tenants ‘falling off a cliff’ – ABC