Best links of the web: 12-12-14, nr 677

Date: Author: Category: Best of the Web, Daily Economics

Good morning. The thing that strikes me most about this chart is that someone actually went through the trouble to count all the appearances…

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(source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/13/graph-so-much-econ…)

 

Ok, the quarterly Tankan is out and it is not good

·         http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2796b1e4-458c-11e2-838f-00144feabdc0.html

 

If you have kids, you should really listen to this podcast, right to the end. If not, listen anyway.

·         http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/chris_anderson_2.html

 

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings: Emerging Markets stage a late year comeback…

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·         http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/12/13/emerging-markets-stage-a-late-year-comeback.html

 

“The strange world of negative interest rates”

·         http://coppolacomment.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-strange-world-of-negative-interest.html

 

16 charts on income inequality in the US: check them out!

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·         http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/a-giant-statistical-round-up-of-the-income-inequality-crisis-in-16-charts/266074/

 

And on the same subject (and a lot more) this nice chartbook from the BLS (via @RF_HFC)

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Let’s just keep it simple: these are the four regimes in UK central bank rates. They have refrained from calling the current regime ‘financial repression’

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·         http://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2012/12/13/central-bank-regime-change-an-update-following-the-fed-last-night-and-carney-the-day-before/

 

And speaking of the UK: S&P is taking another critical look at the triple A rating of the UK

·         http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/3b1641ac-454c-11e2-858f-00144feabdc0.html

 

Hedge fund performance in 2012: another year gone

Media_httpwwwzerohedg_cgddd

·         http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-13/paying-2-and-20-what-again-hedge-funds-underperform-stocks-third-year-running

 

The harsh reality for the US unemployed in 2013…

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·         http://owenzidar.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/fiscal-cliff-policy-links/

 

Prisons in the US… Or Russia, for that matter

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·         http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-13/gulag-ameripelago-us-incarceration-surpasses-russias

 

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