Detailed look at the nation’s broken unemployment insurance system and ideas to fix it. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/21430930/covid-unemployment-600-cares-act-the-great-rebuild
Has the investment allocation paradigm radically shifted? https://www.ft.com/content/fdb793a4-712e-477f-9a81-7f67aefda21a
Is lax oversight a feature or a bug in the global audit industry? It seems every time a major fraud is uncovered the leadership breaks out the standard playbook: 1) We were fooled as well, 2) It’s not our job to uncover fraud and 3) we promise to do better. Though massive fraud garners the …
Sensible discussion of target date funds. Article discusses variations across different funds in terms of allocation and glidepath (ie how the portfolio changes as it approaches the target date). https://soundmindinvesting.com/articles/view/dont-be-surprised-if-target-date-funds-miss-the-mark
This is an impossible dream when aid becomes a tool of foreign policy and a post-Brexit UK will be desperate to cozy up to all manner of suspect foreign leaders. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/02/uk-will-lead-world-on-tackling-famine-and-covid-with-new-department-says-raab?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Leaked documents show Cyprus passport scheme allowed political figures ‘vulnerable to corruption’ to buy EU citizenship. https://aje.io/49myq
US intelligence concensus adds more nuance of China’s role in the Covid19 outbreak. Far from being a top down Beijing controlled conspiracy of silence, it was in fact local officials shielding information from Beijing Local Officials in China Hid Coronavirus Dangers From Beijing, U.S. Agencies Find https://nyti.ms/2EbxVnr
Important ideas on regulating the gig economy I Am the C.E.O. of Uber. Gig Workers Deserve Better. https://nyti.ms/3fD8GY0
Clear need for a pooled risk approach to African debt management Pandemic threatens African economic success – https://on.ft.com/2F3Sy57 via @FT
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