Good morning. Ah, more and more people are picking up on the no-volatility theme: “Stability itself is destabilizing.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/your-money/its-easy-to-forget-about-risk-in-a-stable-market.html

And in case you doubt that there is limited volatility: here you go!

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/03/calm-or-complacency-in-three-charts/

Inequality is the hot topic this year, and here’s a big report on the Dutch situation. It is in Dutch though.

http://www.wrr.nl/fileadmin/nl/publicaties/PDF-verkenningen/V28_Hoe_ongelijk_is_NL_volledig.pdf
via: http://www.oneworld.nl/bloggen/blogs/de-week-tweets/de-week-van-went-tweets-11

…and related to that, this question: why has poverty survived?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/upshot/growth-has-been-good-for-decades-so-why-hasnt-poverty-declined.html

Microsoft’s view of the future. Back in ‘99… (via http://qz.com/216699/watch-how-eerily-microsofts-smart-home-of-1999-predicts-our-lives-today/)

http://youtu.be/9V_0xDUg0h0

Cool: the ECB’s converge report has been released! 366 pages of pure… uhm… convergence!

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/conrep/cr201406en.pdf

“Why aren’t bund yields negative”. The question should be, why did you ask this four months ago?

http://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2014/06/04/arent-bund-yields-negative/

War is not good for the economy.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/06/top-economists-say-war-is-bad-for-the-economy/

Cool: a blogpost on the economics of Scotland going for independence

http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1347-blogs-review-the-economics-of-scottish-independence/

For all you soccer-gekkies out there! Cool interactive chart by the Economist that shows the odds of your favorite team winning…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/06/daily-chart

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