Best in Economics this week: July 1

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2016/jul/01/national-geographic-travel-photographer-of-the-year-pictures

Cool chart! What the growth shortfall from 2011 looks like
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/world-economys-depressing-reality-in-one-chart-2016-6

PAY ATTENTION TO ME.
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http://uproxx.com/webculture/donald-trump-calvin-and-hobbes/

The political risks that can be put in a calendar

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/world-economy-future-nothing-to-do-with-economy-2016-7

Ah yes, this really makes it all clear…

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http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-29/panic-destiny-innovations-and-doubts

And here is something that is not on the agenda, yet.

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/hsbc-eu-referendum-analysis-brexit-precarious-calm-before-storm-2016-6

HA! I made it into The Economist!!
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http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21701511-who-made-money-brexit-vote-prophets-and-profiteers

Well. you could call it a form of perspective…

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http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/06/28/2167774/the-profit-share-finally-bites-hard/

Social progress index in world context

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/social-progress-index-country-ranking-of-best-quality-of-life-versus-gdp-2016-6

And here is why this matters

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/06/daily-chart-20

Valuation of start-ups this month…
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http://qz.com/719157/airbnb-is-raising-money-at-a-30-billion-valuation/

And this is the real question following the UK vote

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/brexits-impact-on-payments-2016-6

We have a problem, Brussels…
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http://uk.businessinsider.com/political-risks-here-to-stay-for-market-2016-6

Higher education
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http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/30/college-educated-workers-now-dominate-the-labor-market/

What went wrong in the 2010s…?

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http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/06/taking-stock-of-european-equities/

I just keep repeating this, so that no one will be shocked…

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/investors-shouldnt-expect-great-returns-2016-7

Putting things into perspective….

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http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and-markets-in-one-visualization/

Flying dots: always cool to watch

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http://flowingdata.com/2016/06/28/distributions-of-annual-income/

Cool clip showing urbanization since 4000 BC

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https://youtu.be/yKJYXujJ7sU

Country report by the IMF on Germany

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http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2016/cr16189.pdf

 

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