Good morning. European car sales are booming! Well registrations, actually…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/europes-exploding-car-sales-are-the-best-sign-yet-that-theres-a-recovery-underway-2015-4

Can anyone recall the October flash-crash?

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/04/16/2126722/your-october-2014-flash-crash-charted/

The urge to merge. The title itself is good enough!

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21648670-corporate-takeovers-are-booming-once-again-zeal-deals

Shale versus non-shale

http://uk.businessinsider.com/shale-states-wage-growth-2015-4

Default rates have never been lower. But whether that is good news, remains to be seen…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/corporate-default-rates-below-long-term-average-2015-4

The Chinese housing boom (and where will it stop?)

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21648567-chinese-growth-losing-altitude-will-it-be-soft-or-hard-landing-coming-down-earth

I knew it! “the electron is the fundamental particle of matter and is a vortex of vacuum with a vacuum-less void at the center and is dynamically stable”

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/02/03/impossible-quantum-space-engine-actually-works-nasa-test-suggests/

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