Good morning. How far you can get by train in Europe in a day
Buiter: “Secular stagnation: The time for one-armed policy is over”
http://www.voxeu.org/article/secular-stagnation-time-one-armed-policy-over
The end of month effect, the other way?
https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/your-friday-night-dinner-party-market-stat/
How to spot fraud, the easy way
http://uk.businessinsider.com/deutsche-banks-use-of-benford-law-to-detect-company-fraud-2015-6
A bit of an update on the oil outages around the world
http://qz.com/421058/oil-traders-love-a-war-especially-the-one-against-us-shale/
A cool chart plotting the differences between men and women in the US. (and yes, the men work more)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/06/daily-chart-3
A bit on how land is an ingredient for house building
http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/the_value_of_land
Corporate debt on the rise, but not everywhere
http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-money-made-in-the-big-chinas-two-big-stock-markets-this-year-could-buy-all-of-the-property-in-london-twice-2015-6?r=US
Not completely clear what the difference between these charts are, but they are both looking at debt
http://www.voxeu.org/article/deleveraging-facts-drivers-and-forecasts
Earnings are heading South in the US. Thank goodness jobs are up North though
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/06/americas-jobs-market
And the US schedule for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/06/schedule-for-week-of-june-7-2015.html
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