Good morning. Cool. 

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Making-the-Modern-World

Specially for the Trekkies: “8 Star Trek Technologies Moving From Science Fiction To Science Fact”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2014/06/24/8-star-trek-technologies/

Germany is weird. I do not know a country with so many Herr Doktor’s, but it ranks low on university schooling…

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21605909-returns-investing-university-education-vary-enormously-wealth

All you ever wanted to know about… Poland!

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2014/cr14174.pdf

Meanwhile in Japan, consumers go on a strike…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-26/abes-worst-nightmare-household-spending-collapses-inflation-spikes

And one housing market to rule them all…

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-bank-of-england-uk-housing-market-2014-6

Liquidity risk in corporate bond markets. By the Bank of England

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/06/26/1888072/this-is-nuts-wheres-the-liquidity/

Nice one: a bit of history on volatility

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-26/annotated-history-global-volatility

Interesting chart. The one problem I have though, is that to my knowledge there are no elite schools in the Netherlands…

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-rich-powerful-people-went-to-elite-colleges-2014-6

Mmmm…. Why did no-one tell me this twelve years ago…?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/26/millennials-are-about-to-have-a-big-impact-on-the-housing-market-but-what-will-it-look-like/

Very cool pictures from National Geographic

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/2014-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest-part-ii/100764/

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