This was the week that the US economy got a big boost. The revision of GDP calculation took effect

http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2013/07/the-government-revises-all-gdp-data.html

Interesting article on the lack of investments in the US

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8177af34-eb21-11e2-bfdb-00144feabdc0.html

A warning from the IMF to the US potential risks arising in a low interest rate and low volatility environment

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13236.pdf

An estimate on the size of Chinese shadow banking. No clue how reliable this data is, but isn’t that so with all Chinese data?
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/07/11/1565062/shadow-financing-charted-in-china-and-a-property-catch-up/

The spillover report… Sounds exciting. It is, if you like economics. 🙂

http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2013/070213.pdf

Patents in clean energy and more charts on energy innovation from the IEA

http://www.iea.org/etp/tracking/figures/rdd_innovation/

A long history of the correlation between bonds and stocks…

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-death-of-bonds-as-an-asset-class-2013-7

The change in the US labour market over the past 70 years…

http://www.businessinsider.com/dont-worry-about-robots-replacing-jobs-2013-7

Nice overview of where the most important commodities are coming from

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-20/all-about-commodities-6-charts-aluminum-zinc

Stunning pictures, even though they are from a barbaric pastime…

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/07/san_fermin_festival_2013_runni.html

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