Emergency Fed rate cut helps China with longer-term currency goals

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/emergency-fed-rate-cut-helps-china-with-longer-term-currency-goals.htm

Coronavirus: Vatican reports first case; ‘Impossible’ to cancel Tokyo Olympics

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/coronavirus-live-updates-china-south-korea-cases-economic-impact-asia-pacific.html

Coronavirus live updates: South Korea cases top 7,000; Florida reports 2 deaths

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/coronavirus-live-updates-sxsw-canceled-grand-princess-cruise-ship-has-21-cases.html

Oil plunges 10% for worst day in more than 5 years after OPEC+ fails to agree on a massive production cut

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/oil-sinks-5percent-to-multi-year-low-on-uncertain-opec-deal.html?__twitter_impression=true&recirc=taboolainternal

12 Dividend Stocks to Buy Amid Turmoil in the Markets

https://www.barrons.com/articles/12-dividend-stocks-to-buy-when-the-market-is-in-turmoil-51583537824?mod=djem_b_Weekly%20Feed%20for%20Barrons%20Magazine

Where Are the Robots? Automation fears distract from the real problem: too few blue-collar workers.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/where-are-the-robots/

10-year Treasury yield hits all-time low of 0.808% as coronavirus rocks markets

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Why the Brain Is So Noisy

Matthias Kaschube studies that wiring by building models that describe experimentally observed brain activity. Kaschube and his colleagues at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, the University of Minnesota, and elsewhere have found a host of features that stand in stark contrast to the circuits that engineers build: spontaneous activity and correlation, dynamic context generation, unreliable transmission, and straight-up noise. These seem to be fundamental features of what some call the universe’s most complex object—the brain.
BY MICHAEL SEGAL
JANUARY 17, 2019
http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/why-the-brain-is-so-noisy

Bernanke on the causes of the financial crisis

former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke examines why many forecasters failed to anticipate the severity of the Great Recession and what really drove the economy into such a tailspin.

Bernanke’s research, which is rooted in quantitative analysis of how the 2007-2009 financial crisis affected the economy, argues that the housing bust, while significantly damaging, can’t on its own explain why the Great Recession was so bad. To understand fully the depth and timing of the economic downturn, we should look instead to the subsequent financial panic—including the run on short-term wholesale funding for financial institutions and the subsequent fire sales of credit-related assets—that sharply constrained the supply of credit.

If Bernanke’s findings are correct, then policymakers were right to implement some of the most controversial policies of the financial crisis, including efforts to rescue the big banks and re-start credit markets. By bringing the panic under control relatively quickly, those policies prevented a still deeper and more protracted recession.

https://www.brookings.edu/author/fred-dews/