Best in Economics this week: July 3

Welcome to the default state!

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http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/

I am pretty sure I have shown this one before. Then again, it may have been updated…
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http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/29/2133245/5000-years-of-dread-charted/

A bit of reading from the BIS
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/bis-report-on-central-banks-2015-6

Final edition, off to holidays! Leaving you with this IPO frenzy!
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/june-had-the-most-ipos-of-an

Some perspective on things
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/charts-eu-economy-is-bigger-than-the-us-2015-6

Not much of a surprise: debt leads to a bigger negative impact of bubbles
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http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-26/the-reason-debt-bubbles-are-worse-than-stock-bubbles

We can add another red bar again…

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http://www.businessinsider.com/greek-financial-crisis-chart-2015-6

Some interesting charts and comments on the breakdown of US income
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http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/06/26/2133005/the-changing-nature-of-americans-income/

And here is some more of that. And I am projecting that that projection is nonsense
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/30/no-matter-what-greece-will-suffer-for-years/

Not going to Corsica this year…

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/01/kissing-friends-on-the-cheek-in-france-is-more-complicated-than-you-think/

Poverty around the world
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/06/multidimensional-poverty

So much for the underdeveloped countries

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/07/daily-chart

What does a single brick cost (if found in the right place in London)
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http://www.cityam.com/218927/london-house-prices-average-cost-single-brick-capital-now-just-shy-200

How long the tourists will stay away after an attack…
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/06/daily-chart-18

Now, who could ever be interested in this: “What moves the stock market?”

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http://www.voxeu.org/article/sources-stock-market-fluctuations-new-evidence

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