Good morning. You probably need to register to read the report, but I could not let this one slip by: on the floor space bubble in China

http://discussions.ft.com/longroom/tables/emerging-markets/china-property-risk/

Cool chart on the costs of solar power! (And no, this is not all thanks to Tesla….)

http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-on-solar-and-elon-musk-2014-3

A bit more reading on the productivity challenge

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.nl/2014/03/the-us-productivity-challenge.html

Some more Russia exposure information, from Bruegel this time (via @leonmwc)

http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1275-russian-roulette/

The biggest surprise here is not the top 3 (steady for years). My main surprise is the lack of a big cargo port in the UK…

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/7-18032014-BP/EN/7-18032014-BP-EN.PDF

Interesting chart. How much bigger can this gap become?

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-corporate-income-tax-rate-statutory-vs-median-2014-3

….but with taxes (and interest rates) dropping, how can we explain this breakdown?

http://www.businessinsider.com/breakdown-of-sp-500-costs-since-1994-2014-3

I particularly like the ‘had homework, didn’t do it’ bit

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/18/new-study-elementary-students-are-doing-more-homework-than-they-used-to/

Visualising the State of the Union on twitter…

https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/sotu-twitter/?utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer78ccb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com

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