This is what happened in Q3

http://uk.businessinsider.com/pretty-much-every-financial-asset-got-hammered-in-q3-2015-10

“Potential Output and Recessions: Are We Fooling Ourselves?”

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/ifdp/2015/files/ifdp1145.pdf

This one comes with no comment…

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/215079-vw-warned-not-to-cheat-on-diesel-emissions-in-2007-suppressed-internal-2011-whistleblower

Leverage in the oil producing sector: market cap has declined, debt hasn’t

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/28/2140986/a-history-of-leverage-and-the-mining-industry-2010-2015/

Debt servicing is rising rapidly for the US oil producers

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=22992

Liquidity, or the lack thereof in bond market funds…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/a-question-of-liquidity/

And here is a bit more…

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/wolf-richter-this-is-when-bonds-go-kaboom.html

Mmm… not very encouraging.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/carl-icahn-warns-gaap-earnings-growth-3-years-2015-9

On how extreme the exchange rates moved during the recent episode

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.nl/2015/09/exchange-rates-moving.html

And here is some more on that topic

https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21670084-region-not-crisis-slower-growth-hurting-running-out-puff

ESG meets, or misses, Volkswagen

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/25/2140878/putting-esg-risk-into-the-market-with-volkswagen/

How much gold there is out there in the world

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/12-stunning-visualizations-of-gold-bars-show-its-rarity/

The rich are better investors? Well, this piece of research tries to prove it, at least

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-25/the-rich-are-different-they-re-better-investors–

Net issuance in emerging markets has dried up in 2015

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/29/2141126/where-did-all-the-em-fx-bonds-go/

Or has it?

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/pol092915b.htm

A bit of reading by the IMF over Australia

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2015/cr15274.pdf

The meaning of probability is something different for each profession, it appears

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http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/09/23/what-does-probability-mean-in-your-profession/

I have shown a different version of this chart last week, but here you go: US consumer is more important than the whole of the Chinese economy

http://uk.businessinsider.com/bulls-excited-us-consumers-despite-china-2015-9

And a bit of reading on gun related deaths in the US

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/guns-kill-americans-but-they-especially-kill-young-americans/

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