http://qz.com/499554/this-is-what-it-takes-to-get-your-photo-a-national-geographic-magazine-cover/

Cool chart on the importance of china for certain markets

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/china-consumes-mind-boggling-amounts-of-raw-materials/

Some ETFs are not as solid as others…

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wild-trading-exposed-flaws-in-etfs-1442174925

Some sound advice: don’t trade in the morning! (or, adversely, as high frequency trading only trade in the morning!)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/early-birds-suffer-in-market-144227379

Nordhaus has taken a serious attempt to see whether we are close to ‘singularity’. The answer: no.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2658259&download=yes

QE expansion has ended! Or at least, that is what you might conclude if you take Emerging Market selling into account

http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2015/09/13/will-emerging-economies-cause-global-quantitative-tightening/

Interesting observation here: as a momentum investor you should be short all asset classes…

http://www.capitalspectator.com/negative-momentum-weighs-on-all-the-major-asset-classes/

There are efficient and there are inefficient innovators, it appears…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/global-innovation-rankings

“The “Sharing Economy” Is Dead, And We Killed It”

http://www.fastcompany.com/3050775/the-sharing-economy-is-dead-and-we-killed-it

How factor investing has saved the day during rough weather…

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21665026-which-investments-work-best-when-markets-decline-looking-lifeboats

Nice bit of research of whether the relative hawkishness of a Fed member is related to the inflation regime of their young adulthood

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/upshot/which-fed-leaders-fear-inflation-look-at-when-they-grew-up.html

Nice chart on drawdowns

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/11/2139877/rejection-charted/

Cool tool enabling you to see what the Fed’s projections were -say- three years ago

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/how-the-fed-s-most-important-message-became-enshrined-in-dots

Now there’s a shocker: insider trading is profitable!

http://www.wsj.com/articles/insiders-beat-market-before-event-disclosure-study-1442280193

El nino is coming! True, they said so last year as well, but who knows: what if it is true?

https://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2015/09/10/el-nino-coming-effects-gdp-commodity-prices-inflation/

On the fences around the world

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-chart-10

The ECB will start to publish the target II country data from now on

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/ecbu/eb201506.en.pdf

Vulnerability in Emerging Markets

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/capital-freeze-index

Bits of reading by the Bank of International Settlements: on emerging market weakness…

http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1509a.htm

On the plus side: the Asians seem to be doing pretty ok…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/16/lower-wages-for-whites-higher-wages-for-immigrants-and-inequality-for-all/

Cool visualisation of the beer companies

http://qz.com/503392/this-is-what-the-family-tree-of-beer-companies-will-look-like-if-ab-inbev-acquires-sabmiller/

Nice one for point of reference: the QE timeline

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/09/qe-timeline-update.html

You’ve gotta hand it to them: the Economist is king in making great charts

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21664217-worlds-institutional-approach-refugees-was-born-europe-seven-decades-ago

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