Yes! Volatility is coming up!!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/sp-500-trading-in-a-range-2016-7

Bonds!

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/consumer-index/financial-security-charts-0716.aspx

Or not?

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/07/22/2170587/its-a-negative-yielding-world-we-just-get-to-scramble-in-it/

This, I am telling you, is a very fundamental problem (but I hear no one talk about it…)

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/testing-datawrapper.html

http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/expenditure-shares-price-measurement-and-true-relative-labor-productivity-growth-in-post-wwii-manufacturing-what-the-aggregate-deta-suggest/

Cool (interactive) overview of candidates hiphop songs

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/clinton-trump-hip-hop-lyrics/

Speaking of which…

http://ritholtz.com/2016/07/fact-checking-2016-presidential-candidates/

There are still people who think you can beat Trump by presenting facts, I see…

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2016/07/never-were-truer-words-said

This is the positive side of the central bank’s policy

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-26/palace-intrigue-michael-jordan-and-dinosaurs

Cool looking charts in this so-called External Sector report by the IMF

http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2016/072716.pdf

Rebound!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-biggest-turnaround-story-in-emerging-markets-2016-7

And maybe this is why they are so cheerful….?

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21702764-strengthening-economy-creates-dilemma-central-bank-staying-its-hand

Debt, debt, debt, part XXVII

http://uk.businessinsider.com/asia-credit-crunch-2016-7

And another one for the debt-debt-debt file. Asian debt.

http://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-07-24/asian-corporate-defaults-are-just-getting-started

Mmmm. Peak adds, anyone?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-verizon-wants-to-buy-yahoo-2016-7

Just another brick in the wall…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/07/daily-chart-16

This one comes without a comment

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21702771-donald-trump-casually-undermines-worlds-most-important-alliance-defend-me-maybe

 

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