This was the week of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, the collapse of gold and Reinhart & Rogoff

Gold’s ‘collapse’ put into perspective…

http://www.businessinsider.com/long-term-gold-chart-going-back-to-1792-2013-4

…and even more perspective (although you can argue that the normal distribution does not apply for gold)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-16/presenting-golds-7-sigma-move

And then there was the Reinhart and Rogoff blooper…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/16/1463192/raining-on-reinhart-and-rogoff/
http://qz.com/75117/how-influential-was-the-study-warning-high-debt-kills-growth/
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/04/how-much-unemployment-was-caused-by-reinhart-and-rogoffs-arithmetic-mistake.html
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/04/did-reinhart-rogoff-screw-up-their-debt-research/
http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/researchers-finally-replicated-reinhart-rogoff-and-there-are-serious-problems
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/16/is-the-best-evidence-for-austerity-based-on-an-excel-spreadsheet-error/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff-continued/

Pretty shocking chart from the Dutch central bank showing the lack of potency for a rate cut…

http://www.dnb.nl/binaries/OFS_Voorjaar13_tcm46-289597.pdf

Stocks may be expensive, but bonds are even more expensive…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/4/17/54-of-sp-500-stocks-yield-more-than-the-10-yr-treasury.html

Manic Monday. Well, at least until the 90s…

http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2013/04/stats-for-the-dow.html

Some history on bull markets

http://gestaltu.blogspot.nl/2013/04/what-bull-giveth-bear-taketh-away.html

Interesting study by the Fed into the impact of a rate hike for the bond yields

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2013/04/do-treasury-term-premia-rise-around-monetary-tightenings-.html

And another nice study from the Fed into the use of adequacy ratio’s for banks…

http://www.dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2013/el1302.cfm

Beautiful visualisation of change through time: you just move the handle and see the change

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324010704578415041545251264.html

Ah yes, and we should not forget the IMF outlook!

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/01/pdf/text.pdf

Interesting way of using Moore’s law to show that our DNA is older than earth itself…

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/

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