Best in Economics this week: April 25

This and 32 other charts of wisdom…
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-21/monday-humor-33-uncomfortably-true-charts-about-everyday-life

Predicting. Always difficult….
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-22/unhappy-earth-day

I am certain I am not a credit genus…
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http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-advisor-insights-april-24-2014-4

Just in case things get out of hand with Russia: here is what commodity markets will be hit…
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http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-russia-commodities-2014-4

Talk about useless (but interesting) information: the timing of all the next 1000 Easters…
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/18/heres-how-many-times-easter-will-fall-on-420-in-the-next-1000-

Consumer deleveraging, this cycle…. (and yes, debt is still high)
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http://www.voxeu.org/article/has-us-household-deleveraging-ended

The US is middle class overtaken by Canada, with Norway and the Netherlands in pursuit…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html

Interesting chart on the share of high yield of total corporate debt
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http://houseofdebt.org/2014/04/17/are-we-headed-for-a-credit-market-crash.html

The unbelievable rise and fall of newspaper ads…
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/04/10-midweek-pm-reads-28/

Nice one: what you would have saved if you abstained for 40 days according to Catholic tradition?
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/04/daily-chart-12

Not a bad fit, all things considering! But which way does the causation run…?
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/04/hoisington-on-the-fed-and-the-wealth-effect/

And in another part of the forest, the search for yield continues…
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http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304049904579517710350913016

Rates are always expected to move up
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http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/04/wednesday-focus-federal-reserve-forward-guidance-april-23-2014.html

Cool chart on what you can buy (m2) per city in the world
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http://www.businessinsider.com/what-1-million-buys-in-global-housing-markets-2014-4

If you think the bankers get paid a lot, check out this bunch…
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http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/21/studies-of-bloated-ceo-pay-miss-the-fattest-cats-in-america/

NATO portrayed as a paper tiger caught in a jam…
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-24/how-world-sees-nato-one-cartoon

 

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