Sunday Supplement: 25 October 2020

‘Wheel tracks’ 1970, David Armfield, Art Gallery of NSW 

Macro & Markets

• New World Disorder: will a US-China cold war and Covid-19 finally kill off the United Nations? – SCMP…the UN is face down in the pool…
• People Fear a Market Crash More Than They Have in Years – NY Times
• U.S. antitrust case against Google mirrors Microsoft battle – APNews
• Older workers face higher unemployment amid virus pandemic – APNews
• China’s purchases of U.S. farm goods at 71% of target under trade deal: U.S. – Reuter
• Global housing markets ‘overheating’ amid pandemic stimulus? – DW
• Japan, UK to sign first post-Brexit bilateral trade deal – DW
• Those ‘Gales of Creative Destruction’ Are for Real – Bloomberg
• Chinese city raises Covid-19 frozen food alert – Asia Times
• The Tree That Could Help Stop the Pandemic – The Atlantic
• Companies plan to continue shifting supply chains out of China under Biden or Trump, says PwC exec – CNBC
• Amid the coronavirus pandemic recession, a quiet crisis is building in the world’s pension systems – SCMP…all those pensioners brought forward by technology, carrying all that debt bringing forward future demand…