Pension underfunding by US state…

http://www.focus262.com/blog/2016/05/the-high-cost-of-high-expected-returns/

Nice chart on oil disruptions

http://uk.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-chart-on-supply-disruptions-in-the-oil-industry-2016-5

Peak trade

https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2015/q4/feature2

Peak people.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/demographics-shift-first-time-in-human-history-2016-5

A recession? Depends on the definition…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-note-on-political-risks-and-global-economic-impacts-2016-5

Cool chart to show the main export products in the Middle-East/Russian region

http://ritholtz.com/2016/05/map-middle-east/

A bit of perspective on sovereign debt default

http://uk.businessinsider.com/wave-of-sovereign-defaults-coming-oil-prices-2016-5

Nice photo’s, interesting read

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-greatest-era-for-american-innovation-a-brief-guided-tour.html

High wage always appears to be expanding the most….

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2016/05/wage-growth-by-type-of-job.html

And here is another one on that theme

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/05/must-read-justin-wolfers-growth-in-real-average-income-for-the-bottom-90-percenthttpstwittercomjustinwolfersst.html

Cool chart looking at world trade over the past 500 years

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/this-is-what-500-years-of-globalization-looks-like

The Atlanta Fed rubbing it in…

http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/2016/05/gdpnow-and-then.html

Still waiting for the pop…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/latest-ons-house-price-data-for-the-uk-2016-5

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