Good morning. Interesting chart shedding light on one of the underlying structural problems for the US economy: the lack of investments…

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2013/06/origins-of-the-crisis.html

 

…and this is the other side of the coin: there is no need to invest…

http://www.businessinsider.com/america-has-too-much-manufacturing-capacity-2013-6

 

Best of last week. Read this and you are all set for the week to come…

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/06/14/best-in-economics-this-week-june-14/

 

…and this is what’s scheduled for the week to come: the Fed looks like the main event
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/06/16/week-ahead-june-17-21/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/06/schedule-for-week-of-june-16th.html

 

Yet another chart showing that inflation is not much of a problem, so far…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/06/dormant-inflation-seen-giving-fed-time-to-wait/

 

The IMF has taken a fresh look at the US and appears to be taken the side for less austerity…

http://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2013/061413.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/06/14/business/14reuters-imf-usa.html

 

If mean reversion is your investment style, Emerging Markets are the place to be!

http://www.businessinsider.com/in-2-charts-youll-understand-the-gigantic-shifting-tide-thats-reshaping-global-markets-2013-6

 

Investment returns through the decades…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-14/visualizing-80-years-returns-bonds-stocks-and-bullion

 

How the younger generation in the US is losing out. On the plus side: they will become the older generation before long…

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/14/business/The-Old-Get-Richer-but-Not-the-Young.html?ref=economy

 

An update on popularity of Japanese prime Ministers: Abe is still following the ‘normal’ pattern

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-14/time-abe-start-worrying-about-his-approval-rating

 

Interesting (though not very relevant) table showing the returns in equities over the past 8 years

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/06/equity-market-review-for-june-13-2013/

 

If you like to know more about the Economics of Rock and Roll, here’s your link!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/06/rockonomics/

 

Slightly overdramatised, but still: what happens if all the bees die…? No clue why oranges survive, though.

http://grist.org/list/this-is-what-your-supermarket-would-look-like-if-all-the-bees-died-off/

 

 

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