Good morning. Be careful. He is watching us….
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/05/draghis-heavy-hint

Krugman puts in his twenty cents on secular stagnation.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/three-charts-on-secular-stagnation/

Wow… painful. This chart showing how many World Bank reports where never downloaded. But 10 points for the World Bank for being this open about it: where are the IMF statistics?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/08/the-solutions-to-all-our-problems-may-be-buried-in-pdfs-that-nobody-reads/

Speaking of the IMF: they have published a report on the Baltic Bloc. I have put the download total to one: who follows?

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2014/cr14117.pdf

Citigroup publishes a sequel on last year’s 10 disruptive innovations: for all ye trend watchers

http://www.businessinsider.com/citi-disruptive-innovations-2014-2014-5

So… The Europeans are steadily replacing the Chinese as a buyer of US Treasuries?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/08/the-story-of-the-american-recovery-in-15-charts/

Ageing populations. Everywhere. (via @markkoster)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-baby-boomers-retirement-means-for-the-u-s-economy/

Two years ago, the odds for a breakup of the euro by 2014 were non-negligible. Reality is, Spain and Italy borrow at record lows…

http://soberlook.com/2014/05/the-unprecedented-chase-for-yield.html

Buttonwoods takes a look at the shrinking supply of assets…

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21601876-markets-will-prove-fragile-if-central-banks-tighten-too-fast-ghostbusters

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