Best of the Web: 14-05-06, nr 987

Good morning. So, 2015 and 2016 are not going to work?

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/05/is-the-fed-near-its-target

 

Interestingly, according to the i-pad index (the technological version of the Big Mac index), the Chinese yuan is properly valued….

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http://www.businessinsider.com/cfr-ipad-mini-ppp-index-2014-5#!JiGVV

Cool chart, which I sort of distrust though: wasn’t the IPO market dead in 2002?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/05/u-s-businesses-are-being-destroyed-faster-than-theyre-being-created/

Last week’s news, but still an interesting chart: who has been buying and who has been selling US equities?
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-01/greater-fool-rotation-whos-buying-and-whos-selling

Not a very tight relationship between the height of tax rates and companies saying that tax rates are a problem
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/05/daily-chart-1

Sure. Let me gues… buy stocks?
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-05/coppock-market-message-get-out-and-stay-out-check-back-q1-2015

Charting outside of the box! This is going to be huge, no doubt…
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-05/3-underappreciated-indicators-guide-you-through-debt-saturated-economy

A bit of reading on US corporate and government leverage
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http://www.voxeu.org/article/century-corporate-america-leverage

 

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