Otway Night, 1994, Jan Senbergs, Art Gallery of NSW
Markets & Macro
- The Coronavirus Is the World’s Only Superpower – New Yorker
- This recession will finally end the private-sector ‘debt supercycle,’ says firm that invented the term – MarketWatch
- Beyond the Global Coronavirus Crisis: Austerity of Recovery? – Pearls and Irritations
- Will inflation make a comeback after the crisis ends? – VoxEU
- A Trio of Downgrades Spell Default Danger for Emerging Markets – Bloomberg
- The Most Profitable Trade: ‘Oil All Over the Oceans Right Now’ – Bloomberg
- Coronavirus upends global food supply chains in latest economic shock – Reuters
- Pandemic opens curtains on next economic model – AsiaTimes
- As the coronavirus triggers a global economic crisis, just how bad could it get? – DW
- Market’s Jobs Response Signals Yield-Curve Control Is Here – Bloomberg
- Worst case scenario still in play for oil prices – Asia Times
- Forget ‘recession’: this is a depression – Guardian
Asia
- Vietnam protests Beijing’s sinking of South China Sea boat – Reuters
- Indian officials warn of lockdown extensions as COVID-19 cases in South Asia near 6,000 – Reuters
- Coronavirus: Hong Kong and Singapore are hungry for Australian produce, but why can’t they get it? – SCMP
- Wuhan lockdown led to dramatic cut in global spread of coronavirus, researchers say – SCMP
- Chinese banks face double threat of more bad debt, lower margins amid worsening coronavirus pandemic – SCMP
- Coronavirus: China’s unemployment crisis mounts, but nobody knows true number of jobless – SCMP
- Coronavirus: India’s bailout may not be enough to save economy – BBC
- A pandemic in an unequal India – Pearls and Irritations
- China fears scourge of unemployment – Asia Times
- Korea keeps economy running, but faces dire 2020 – Asia Times
- Japan to ease trigger on factory and store write-downs – Nikkei Asian Review
Americas
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- America has no federal response to this crisis – Vox
- How Trump surprised his own team by ruling out Obamacare – Politico
- Our Health Insurance System Was Not Built for a Plague – Slate
- ‘Lord of the Flies: PPE Edition’: U.S. cast as culprit in global scrum over coronavirus supplies – Politico
- Trump aims to ease U.S. oil industry’s cash crunch, no plan to trim output: sources – Reuters
- Coronavirus depresses U.S. payrolls, more job losses coming – Reuters
- S. businesses swarm coronavirus bailout fund after days of confusion – Reuters
- Coronavirus leads to 3.5 million people losing employer coverage – Axios
- US accused of seizing face mask shipments bound for Europe, Canada – DW
- America’s emergency medical stockpile is almost empty. Nobody knows what happens next. – Vox
- The U.S. Officially Lost 700,000 Jobs in March. In Reality, It Was Much, Much Worse. – Slate
- The Roberts Court Has Made the Looming Coronavirus Election Crisis So Much Worse – Slate
- This hard truth about the mortgage markets isn’t being told – MarketWatch
- An Unhealthy Military Is Struggling to Fight COVID-19 – The Atlantic
- Turns Out $2 Trillion in Stimulus Isn’t Nearly Enough Stimulus – Bloomberg
Europe
- ESM loans or Coronabonds: A legal analysis from the German perspective – VoxEU
- Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed – The Atlantic, Applebaum
- The EU Watches as Hungary Kills Democracy – The Atlantic
- Coronavirus: UK among economies risking record slump – BBC
- Telemedicine Arrives in the U.K.: ‘10 Years of Change in One Week’ – NY Times
- Europe’s biggest city Istanbul running out of time to stop virus surge warns mayor – BNE Intellinews
Terra Incognita
- ‘Australia won’t look the same’: ANZ’s Elliott warns coronavirus impact will be generational – Ninefax…he has a point…
- Strain on the banks: Financial systems hinge on our health strategy – Ninefax
- Lack of welfare for jobless migrants could potentially ‘worsen public health crisis’ – Ninefax
- The two meetings that changed the trajectory of Australia’s coronavirus response – Guardian
- Coronavirus shows Australia’s tax cuts were based on pure fantasy – Guardian
- Men – VoxEU
- Scandal-magnet Angus Taylor fails to disclose Virgin and Qantas freebies – Michael West
- Is Australia trading too much with China – Pearls and Irritations
- Future Shock: What will New Zealand look like a year after coronavirus? – Stuff.co.nz
- Coronavirus: International students should go home if they can’t support themselves: PM – Canberra Times
- Corona-phobia: All in this together, or in danger of turning on each other? – The Monthly
Global Macro
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- Coronavirus fuels historic drop in gasoline demand – Axios
- After coronavirus passes, nothing will be the same — and that might not be a bad thing – ABC
- The normality of extraordinary monetary reactions to huge real shocks – VoxEU…interesting comparisons…
- The dollar and international capital flows in the COVID-19 crisis – VoxEU
- Baby boomers and the housing market on the cusp of COVID-19 – VoxEU
- Unemployment in US and UK ‘may be worse than in Great Depression’ – Guardian
- Will coronavirus reverse globalisation? – BBC
…and furthermore…
- Bill Withers Was Always There if You Needed Him – New Yorker
- The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down – The Atlantic
- Edible insects set to be approved by EU in ‘breakthrough moment’ – Guardian
- Is marriage over? Marriage is practised in every society yet is in steep decline globally. Is this it for longterm intimate relationships? – Aeon
- Sometimes the most powerful act of resistance is to do nothing – Aeon
- Bill Withers: The Soul Man Who Walked Away – Rolling Stone
…and coronavirus…
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- Researchers warn the COVID-19 lockdown will take its own toll on health – Reuters
- Everything you need to know about making your own face mask – Vox
- A Comprehensive Guide to Masks – Slate
- Cats More Susceptible to Coronavirus than Dogs, Scientists Say – Caixin
- Face masks: can they slow coronavirus spread – and should we be wearing them? – Guardian
- Coronavirus: US researchers develop possible vaccine with novel injection technology – SCMP
- Australian scientists discover head lice drug kills coronavirus in lab – Ninefax
- Tuberculosis vaccine ‘potential game-changer’ in Covid-19 fight – Irish Times
- The CDC now recommends everyone use cloth masks in public – Vox
- Ferrets used in first Covid-19 vaccine animal trial – Asia Times
Quarantine/Self Isolation Sunday viewing….
HyperNormalisation (2016) Adam Curtis