Good morning. THE FED RAISES RATES!!! Well, somewhere next year. Maybe.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fed-dot-plot-2014-3

And here is a bit of context on the ‘raising rates’ thing

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-yellens-around-six-months-means-2014-3

…and even more…

On to a different subject: there is a report that assesses the forecasting capabilities of the IMF

http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2014/03/18/the-cunning-optimism-of-the-imf/

And on the subject of the IMF: all you ever wanted to know about the GCC countries!! The what…? Exactly!

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2014/sdn1401.pdf

Interesting find on technical analyses from a Dutch source. Technical analysts lose money. Well, the Dutch one’s at least…

http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/03/individual-investors-lose-money-using-technical-analysis/
http://climateerinvest.blogspot.in/2014/03/technical-analysis-and-individual.html

Inequality in the US. Yet another chart

http://ineteconomics.org/blog/institute/chartbook-economic-inequality

Interesting, but I would like a longer dated chart on this

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-19/how-gold-performs-during-fomc-weeks-spoiler-alert-not-good

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