Good morning. Wow: The third blog of Bernanke in one week! How long will/can he keep this up…?

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/04/03-germany-trade-surplus-problem

“What Seems to Be Holding Back Labor Productivity Growth, and Why It Matters”

http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/2015/04/what-seems-to-be-holding-back-labor-productivity-growth-and-why-it-matters.html

On the current status of the world economy

http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2015/04/05/global-growth-report-card-world-slowdown-causes-concern/

Bubbles. Quite big ones even…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/02/2125755/this-time-is-not-different-usd-edition/

A not so optimistic interpretation on the development in the US labour market

http://www.epi.org/blog/total-jobs-sputter-in-march-while-wages-continue-to-sing-the-same-slow-song/

“The sources of stock market fluctuations”. For the advanced class…

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.fr/2015/04/the-sources-of-stock-market-fluctuations.html

And perhaps, this is the answer to all those fluctuations: just hold on….

https://rpseawright.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/everybody-plays-the-fool-sometimes/

Cool chart showing that California -once the hotspot of net migration- has lost its shine in the late 90s

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/04/net-migration-between-california-and-other-states-1955-1960-and-1995-2000/

…and while we are on the subject of the regional divide in the US: check out this one!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/04/weekend-reads-165/

…and even more on movements within the US: this time oil (it is a gif, it should be moving)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/02/an-eye-popping-gif-of-how-oil-moves-around-america/

Humanity: the short version. Comes with some serious critique as well

http://uk.businessinsider.com/things-annoying-for-a-quant-reporter-2015-4

Robots and China

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/01/why-china-may-have-the-most-factory-robots-in-the-world-by-2017/

One day later than normal, but here is the schedule for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/04/schedule-for-week-of-april-5-2015.html

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