Bad Bets and the Corona Virus Epidemic
Bad bets by individuals, the state, and globalizing elites
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HSBC Announces Mass Job Cuts, Huge Write-Down, Asset Sales, Halt of Share Buybacks. Warns of Coronavirus Impact on Credit Losses & Revenues in China & Hong Kong
Once storied, now sprawling TBTF HSBC has started a big retrenchment in the face of mounting business woes. Is it the canary in the coal mine?
Read more...Plastic Watch: Congress Considers Bill to Impose Extended Producer Responsibility, AKA ‘You Break It, You Buy It’
The Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act would impose extended producer responsibility.
Read more...400 Million Locked Down in China To Fight Coronavirus
Another estimate of the severity and potential broader impact of the coronavirus.
Read more...Coronavirus Starting to Hit Auto Industry Supply Chains
A coronavirus worry is starting to manifest.
Read more...Public Health Officials Offer Scant Details On U.S. Coronavirus Patients
Experts discuss US measures for dealing with coronavirus cases.
Read more...Coronavirus: Australia Faces Calamity
Identifying likely economic road kill from the coronavirus outbreak.
Read more...China Coronavirus Watch: Transmission Methods, Travel, Potential Mutation, AIDS Connection Debunked
Would the United States, faced with a similar challenge, do better than China?
Read more...Do Davos Billionaires and Bankers Really Believe Booms and Busts Are Over Because They’ve Trained the Fed?
Fed tightening is no longer needed to create recessions, given fragile credit structures and a growing pandemic out of China.
Read more...US Loses Nearly 4 Million Jobs to China Since WTO Entry
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers.
Read more...Dr. Victor Shih: Coronavirus MUCH Worse Than SARS
A downbeat but persuasive take on the likely progression of the coronavirus.
Read more...Coronavirus: Not Looking Good
Coronavirus updates.
Read more...China Coronavirus Watch: Updated – Another Chinese City Locked Down to Prevent Spread
A compilation of what seems to be known about the new Chinese coronavirus.
Read more...Plastics Watch: China to Ban Single-Use Plastics, Malaysia Rejects Waste Shipments
China announces a ban on single-use plastics, while Malaysia refuses to serve as the world’s waste bin, and returns foreign waste shipments.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Tesla, Hit by Sagging US Sales, Goes Full-China with Design Center, Loans & Factory
It makes strategic sense for Tesla, which is struggling mightily in the US, to try to find new markets. But the headwinds in China are even stronger.
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