Good morning. And…. We are off! Alcoa just kicked off the first quarter earnings season! It doesn’t look too bad…
http://www.businessinsider.com/alcoa-aluminum-demand-2014-4
From the Fed: “Age Discrimination and the Great Recession”
It must indeed be booming business for Bloomberg to write this: “Manipulate Me: The Booming Business in Behavioral Finance” Mental note to myself: check out those apps!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-07/manipulate-me-the-booming-business-in-behavioral-finance.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2014-04-07/apps-that-nudge-nag-and-manipulate-you-into-financial-health.html
Bill Gross in the Investment Outlook on sharpe ratios (and more)
http://www.pimco.com/EN/Insights/Pages/Bob.aspx
The IMF publishes its World Economic Outlook, with lot’s of charts and information…
…with a special feature on commodity prices
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2014/01/pdf/text.pdf
US household debt has declined quite a bit in recent years…
http://www.businessinsider.com/household-debt-2014-4
And this is a classic as well, also on the US.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gerard-minack-on-profit-margins-2014-4
…and while we are still on the subject: this is an interesting chart…
http://www.businessinsider.com/shiller-chart-shows-why-recession-is-years-away-2014-4
Well-known fact, but the picture drives the point home. The US budget is mostly going to:
http://www.offthechartsblog.org/just-the-basics-where-our-federal-tax-dollars-go/
Vehicle deaths have dropped significantly in the US and here are a number of charts to explain why
http://www.vox.com/2014/4/2/5572648/why-are-fewer-people-dying-in-car-crashes
I feel a new theme coming up. The those-hopelessly-optimistic-analyst theme
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-08/why-do-you-listen-analysts-earnings-hopehype-edition
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