http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2015/05/20/cities-clouds/y1RRtT9pEAMZNWrKI1FxEK/story.html

The new spaghetti chart from the Economist. This one is on debt…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/05/daily-chart-4

Cool chart on corporate defaults in Emerging countries. Rising, except for in Latin America

https://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2015/05/21/sorting-micro-macro-emerging-markets/

I have shown something to this effect earlier. Average is sort of rare in stock markets

https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/the-rarest-of-them-all-a-mid-single-digit-percentage-year/

Cool: for the fans of Mad Men. What happened to all the brands in the series?

http://consumerist.com/2015/05/15/that-was-then-this-is-now-how-72-brands-from-mad-men-have-changed-since-don-draper-was-in-charge/

Another interesting study from the IMF, over how too much financial development may be counterproductive

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1508.pdf

“Why are interest rates so low?”

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/05/why-are-interest-rates-so-low.html#.VV1cb2SqpBc

Nice article on rating up- and downgrades. Red is developed, green is emerging.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/sovereign-rating-changes-understanding-asymmetries

“How Much Should a Currency Be Worth? No One Really Knows“

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-should-a-currency-be-worth-no-one-really-knows-1431890492

A bit of reading on my favorite subject: bubbles

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/05/15/2129602/charting-the-secular-stagnation-bubble-hypothesis/

The San Francisco Fed has calculated what Q1 GDP would have been would have been with proper seasonal adjustments: +1.8%

http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2015/may/weak-first-quarter-gdp-residual-seasonality-adjustment/

WallStreet still earns 3.6 times as much as other workers

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/upshot/wall-street-is-back-almost-as-big-as-ever.html

Some thoughts of Krugman on Executive pay being linked to American football salaries

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/broken-windows-and-american-oligarchy/

The distribution of GDP per head within all the European countries. Look at UK..

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/6839731/1-21052015-AP-EN.pdf/c3f5f43b-397c-40fd-a0a4-7e68e3bea8cd

A different way of looking at the equilibrium interest rate

https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-commentary/strategies/asset-allocation/the-idolatry-of-interest-rates-part-1-chasing-will-‘o-the-wisp.pdf

One of the costs fintech is not bothered with

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21651811-more-wrongdoing-banks-more-swingeing-fines-no-prosecutions-justice

An analysis on bond and earning yields (and thus, the Fed model)

http://brooklyninvestor.blogspot.nl/2015/05/market-valuation-scatter-plot.html

The wee bit Keynes left out…

http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-05-20

Some stunning (and disturbing) pictures on overpopulation (via @wishmaster_nl)

http://www.1millionwomen.com.au/blog/pictures-our-world-overconsumption/

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