http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/238528.html
10 years from now, at the butchers…
http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/19/5731892/signs-depict-an-eerie-near-future
Given that bond yields have been dropping for over thirty years, this chart does not surprise me
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/19/1854722/the-sun-also-rises-bond-yields-not-so-much/
Interesting trading strategy. Will it work this time round?
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-16/ritholtz-s-10-friday-reads-lots-about-hedge-funds
A bit of perspective on how big the Indian elections really were
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/05/daily-chart-14
Credit Suisse read Piketty and takes a crack at r>g: “we are not (traceably) oligarched by the offspring of Roman emperors”
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/22/1859552/credit-suisse-reads-piketty/
Some statistics on how big the stock market in the world currently is
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/05/22/how-big-is-the-global-stock-market/
Quite a different way of looking at inequality…
http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/income-inequality-31-the-strange-case-of-the-rising-middle-and-the-hollowing-out-of-the-center/
The deadliest animal in the world?
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/05/behavioral-test-what-are-the-worlds-deadliest-animals/
For in them history books: how much the Fed has purchased so far, per month
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-05-20/banks-fed-and-taper
Where is James Bond!!!?
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