GOVERNMENTS ARE SPENDING BIG TO KEEP THE WORLD ECONOMY FROM GETTING DANGEROUSLY SICK / THE ECONOMIST

Experimental treatment Governments are spending big to keep the world economy from getting dangerously sick The help is targeted at comp...

CHINA´S PROPERTY SECTOR IS AT THE EPICENTRE OF THE CRISIS / THE FINANCIAL TIMES OP EDITORIAL

China’s property sector is at the epicentre of the crisis Indebted developers threaten a domino effect on western credit markets Paul Ho...

GLOBAL LAY-OFFS SURGE AS 6.6M AMERICANS FILE JOBLESS CLAIMS / THE FINANCIAL TIMES

Global lay-offs surge as 6.6m Americans file jobless claims About 4m French workers are in a temporary unemployment scheme, while 800,000 ...

THE FALSE CRISIS COMPARISON / PROJECT SYNDICATE

The False Crisis Comparison During the 2008 crisis, unprecedented actions by the US Federal Reserve were both appropriate and decisive in ...

BANKS HAVE NOWHERE TO HIDE IN THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Banks Have Nowhere to Hide in the Coronavirus Crisis European bank stocks are back at levels last seen in the 1980s as investors struggle...

FACTORIES CUT OUTPUT, JOBS AS CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN BITES / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Factories Cut Output, Jobs as Coronavirus Lockdown Bites A series of business surveys paint an almost uniform picture of sharply declining...

CORONAVIRUS AND SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION: WHAT FIRMS CAN LEARN / KNOWLEDGE@WHARTON

Coronavirus and Supply Chain Disruption: What Firms Can Learn Wharton’s Senthil Veeraraghavan talks with Wharton Business Daily on Sirius ...

EGYPT´S WATER SECURITY PROBLEM / GEOPOLITICAL FUTURES

Egypt’s Water Security Problem By: Hilal Khashan The ancient Greek historian Herodotus described Egypt as the gift of the Nile River, b...

POINT OF NO RETURN / SPROTT ASSET MANAGEMENT

Point of No Return BY John Hathaway Credit Deflation and Gold   Gold and precious metals mining shares are casualties of p...