Good morning. And that was Q1! Should have bought Portugal…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/return-performance-of-major-global-financial-assets-q1-2015-2015-4

More signs of the Chinese economic slowdown

http://uk.businessinsider.com/analyst-chinas-economy-just-touched-the-governments-chilling-red-line-2015-4

…while we are all interested to see whether this relationship (with a nine months lead) will hold this time

http://uk.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-wage-increase-2015-4

On labour and capital shares and why the US is different from the rest

http://blogs.ft.com/andrew-smithers/2015/04/has-labour-lost-out-to-capital/

How much higher can the inventories go…?

https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/record-streak-of-crude-oil-inventory-increases/

And here is part two of the Bernanke sequel!

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/31-why-interest-rates-low-secular-stagnation

New innovation from the OECD: how does your country compare to… I can’t access it though

http://www.oecd360.org/oecd360/

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