Good morning. Spot the odd one out…

http://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2016/7/18/the-china-debate

Interesting paper: is the global economy captured by the world stock markets or not?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2595305

IMF does what is it very good at: lowers its growth forecast…

http://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2016/07/18/18/11/NA07192016-IMF-Cuts-Global-Growth-Forecasts-on-Brexit-Warns-of-Risks-to-Outlook
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2016/update/02/pdf/0716.pdf

Inflation IS rising in the US. Bonds just simply ignore it. 🙂

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-19/rorschach-tests-gold-troubles-and-terrorists

And here is something else that is mostly ignored by many….

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/donald_trump_is_unfit_to_be_president_here_are_141_reasons_why.html

100%: we have reached peak Facebook

http://uk.businessinsider.com/internet-habits-are-bad-news-for-digital-media-2016-7

So much for a single trend in the eurozone

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/pdf/blssurvey_201607.pdf

Forecasting 10 year yields in the long run. #randomnwalk

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2016/07/forecasting-interest-rates-over-the-long-run.html#.V45Ds5N96Hp

Cool interactive chart on… death

http://visual.ons.gov.uk/does-our-sex-affect-what-we-die-from/

The blue bits are the cheapest to live at….

http://uk.businessinsider.com/regional-price-parity-map-2016-7

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