Good morning. Cool! Colleague Ronald Doeswijk (et al) has hit alphaville!!

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/27/1862052/unbalanced/

“Hedge Funds’ Investing Prowess Doesn’t Live Up to Billing”
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303749904579580382179546404

Not sure if this is useful at all, but the chart is cool.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/27/inequality-and-political-polarization-have-been-rising-in-tandem-for-three-decades/

Interesting news for the bitcoiners: the “Willy report” (now taken offline) has taken a look at mtGox’s doom: it’s the bots!
http://gigaom.com/2014/05/26/bots-were-responsible-for-bitcoins-stratospheric-ascent-anonymous-report-claims/

Two charts on earnings: this one is for the US…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-27/just-two-charts

Interesting chart on the importance of revenue from natural resources per country. Look at Norway.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/tax-policies-resource-rich-economies

The developing world has become more wealthy and, yes, more equal by the looks of it

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/05/daily-chart-18

Cool chart on the pattern of GDP revisions. Almost a business cycle by itself

http://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/do-revisions-to-gdp-follow-patterns/

This chart should have started a lot earlier though

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-27/here-mystery-and-completely-indiscriminate-buyer-stocks-first-quarter

Weird fact: South Africans girls are remarkably obese….

http://www.businessinsider.com/oecd-child-obesity-recession-study-2014-5

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