Numerous interesting charts and a lot of interesting reading in the Financial Stability Report of the ECB

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/financialstabilityreview201511.en.pdf

More and more articles on the change in trend in savings…

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/11/23/greg-ip-one-big-influence-on-interest-rates-is-about-to-reverse/

The corporate savings glut

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/11/the-corporate-saving-glut-in-the-aftermath-of-the-global-financial-crisis/

Finally some data on crowdfunding (in the UK). Not just the growth, but also the busts!

http://www.altfi.com/downloads/WhereAreTheyNow.pdf

The stellar rise of e-commerce in China

http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.nl/2015/11/the-economics-of-retail-sector.html

Mmmmm…..

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21679262-changing-face-corporate-debt-big-hunk-junk

A wee bit of market cap creation thanks to just four stocks

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/11/facebook-amazon-netflix-and-google-create-over-440-billion-over-2015/

Retired at 30….

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/11/reasons-for-not-working/

Australian capex has seen better days…

http://news.forexlive.com/!/australian-dollar-resilient-despite-drop-in-capex-20151126

A bit of a new interpretation on the FOMC effect in stocks

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/vissing/cycle_paper_cieslak_morse_vissingjorgensen.pdf

Finland. Dangerously close to Italy…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/12001895/Finlands-depression-is-the-final-indictment-of-Europes-monetary-union.html

Inequality: that’s a topic we haven’t posted anything on for some time now!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-report-statistics-on-inequality-in-developed-countries-2015-11

Not much of a surprise, but defaults are on the rise

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/40146b80-91bf-11e5-94e6-c5413829caa5.html

Putting Thanksgiving into perspective….

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/11/thanksgiving-compare-chinese-new-year/

Cool looking chart that shows where the refugees come from and where they are going to

http://www.oneworld.nl/blog/de-week-tweets/de-week-van-went-tweets-82

A pretty technical piece on productivity and its changed composition

https://growthecon.wordpress.com/2015/11/21/the-changing-composition-of-productivity-growth/

 

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