An interesting and easy to read blog on the productivity puzzle: mis-measurement or misallocation?

http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/the-productivity-slowdown-mismeasurement-or-misallocationor-both/

Cool two charts. Looks like investing is easy after all. If you know what the economy will be doing, that is

http://www.voxeu.org/article/ecb-and-fed-comparative-narrative

The dominance of the oil trade…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/rosenberg-market-selloff-correlated-significantly-with-oil-2016-1

No wonder US earnings have been falling…

https://www.bespokepremium.com/the-closer/the-closer-11915-stable-growth-for-sale-stable-forwards-not-so-much/

A bit or perspective

http://uk.businessinsider.com/chart-puts-stunning-stock-market-plunge-into-perspective-2016-1

Stock market corrections without recessions. They happen

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/stock-market-sell-offs-without-a-recession/

The good news: bonds didn’t suffer in the sell-off. The bad news: normally bonds would have rallied…

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/three-things-that-matter-during-a-market-sell-off/

Back in the news again: the 62 richest own a lot…..

http://ritholtz.com/2016/01/economy-1-privilege-power-economy-drive-extreme-inequality-can-stopped/

I somehow think that I have shown this one before, but here you go: liquidity in bond markets

http://www.bis.org/publ/cgfs55.pdf

Latest GDP data from China is out. The underlying volatility has a high Madoff feel to it…

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-idUSKCN0UX04B

And here is some more: a bit of reading on liquidity in the corporate bond markets

http://www.voxeu.org/article/resilience-market-liquidity

“How blockchain tech could change the way we do business”

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35370304

And the IMF on virtual currencies

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2016/sdn1603.pdf

Hot (and depressing) interactive chart showing how warm global temperatures were in 2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-01-20/2015-was-the-hottest-year-on-record-by-a-stunning-margin

Interesting chart on fact checking politicians. Remarkably, Bill Clinton scores high….

http://www.businessinsider.com/politicians-do-not-always-tell-the-truth-2016-1

Cool overview of corporate criminal penalties in the US

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2016/01/banks_that_break_the_law_are_finally_getting_pursued_by_the_feds_it_s_not.html

 

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