Good morning. A lot of news on Greece over the weekend. Almost none of it good: a referendum, the freezing of ELA and more: European stocks expected to take a plunge today:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-28/ecb-said-to-see-greek-bank-holiday-needed-as-ela-dries-up
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/29/us-markets-global-idUSKCN0P815D20150629?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&rpc=69
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2015/html/pr150628.en.html
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/49775bac-1d83-11e5-ab0f-6bb9974f25d0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3eHfVhuG8
http://www.scribd.com/doc/269899736/EC-June-26-Proposal
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-economist-on-greece-2015-6
An ominous sign: China and statistics
http://www.afr.com/markets/market-data/hsbc-dumps-china-pmi-as-beijing-tightens-information-flows-20150626-ghwa1o
Debt leads to a bigger negative impact of bubbles
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-26/the-reason-debt-bubbles-are-worse-than-stock-bubbles
Darn! Didn’t make it to the top ten!
http://uk.businessinsider.com/countries-mentioned-by-sp-500-companies-2015-6
Cool chart on the state of the world economy through time
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/06/em-hold-back-growth/
Capital flight is restricted to only one country, this time
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/26/2133076/capital-outflows-then-and-now/
Poverty around the world
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/06/multidimensional-poverty
Some inretesting charts and comments on the breakdown of US income
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/26/2133005/the-changing-nature-of-americans-income/
Water is booming business!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnlingan/a-deep-dive-into-the-worlds-most-prestigious-water-tasting-c#.ok4BGg1g2
And while on the subject of water: look at this water scam…
http://nautil.us/blog/the-chemistry-and-psychology-of-turning-water-into-wine
And, as always, the US schedule for the week to come!
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/06/schedule-for-week-of-june-28-2015.html
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Very funny 🙂