Good morning. A ‘bit’ of history on Dutch bond yields…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-01/500-years-dutch-bond-yields

Those greeks should be killing the German economy by now, right? (via Patrick Groenendijk)

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.nl/2014/06/slok-on-greek-wages.html

And yet another chart on those booming mergers and acquisitions…

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-01/ritholtz-s-10-tuesday-reads-the-value-of-sleep

Ah, the new complaint. First it was low volatility, now it is low volumes…

http://www.businessinsider.com/gasparino-goldman-sachs-layoffs-2014-7

Eat that, Piketty! (part MMXVII)

http://www.voxeu.org/article/housing-capital-and-piketty-s-analysis

Spain is the champ! (not talking soccer here)

http://www.businessinsider.com/spanish-pmi-2014-7

Can someone fact-check this claim?

http://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2014/07/01/stamping-foreign-flows-uk-property-sterling-suicide/

That does it: I am canceling my holiday to Iran….

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-01/beer-flation-where-worlds-cheapest-and-most-expensive-beer-found

Not sure whether this chart works for me…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/07/tech-immigrants-a-map-of-silicon-valleys-imported-talent/

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