Good morning. Ah! Election charts! We haven’t seen for, for… four years!

http://ritholtz.com/2016/08/stocks-us-president/

And another line with dots!

http://www.milkenreview.org/articles/human-capital-in-the-21st-century

And just for the sake of completeness: the best of… three weeks ago

https://lukasdaalder.com/2016/08/05/best-in-economics-this-week-august-5/

So, how many oil states are there?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/wages-accelerating-outside-of-oil-states-2016-8

On the impact of healthcare costs…

http://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/eclett/2016/el1611.pdf

Saudi economy in trouble?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-gdp-forecasts-and-foreign-reserves-2016-8

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