Best in Economics this week: November 28

This was the week that oil prices crashed on the no-move from OPEC
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-15

Cool chart.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-24/brent-plunge-60-if-opec-fails-cut-junk-bond-rout-default-cycle-follow

The 12 months before a rate hike…
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/11/the-easy-moneys-been-made-fed-policy-and-stock-outlook/

Getting rich easy: only invest around the turn of the month
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-22/one-most-striking-equity-market-anomalies-explained

On the mystery of low productivity growth: “We are all in the dark.”
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/alan-blinder-the-unsettling-mystery-of-productivity-1416873038

Cool study from the Tinbergen Institute on house price developments in the border area (of the Netherlands)
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/11/house-prices-border

Deleveraging has been mixed for consumers and has not happened at all for producers…
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http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/economics/oecd-economic-outlook-volume-2014-issue-2_eco_outlook-v2014-2-en#page20

Military spending in Africa
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-13

Ah yes, the well being of the Turkey according to Taleb
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http://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-talebs-black-swan-thanksgiving-turkey-2014-11

And here are some more Turkeys….
America's turkeys
http://qz.com/297885/how-americas-thanksgiving-turkeys-got-so-huge/

Is the sell-off in Emerging Markets finished?
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http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/11/25/em-portfolio-flows-bull-market-back-again/

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