Ha ha ha! Central bank using power talk…

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bazookas-sinks-aggressive-doves-nobody-loves-silly-metaphors-more-than-central-bankers-1472481317

Something’s wrong here…

http://ritholtz.com/2016/08/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-time-1970-2014/

TV’s…

http://ritholtz.com/2016/08/inflation-things-need-vs-things-want/

Divergence!

http://voxeu.org/article/economic-growth-stagnating-median-incomes-new-analysis

It is quiet out there…

https://www.bespokepremium.com/chart-of-the-day/chart-of-the-day-38-trading-days-without-a-1-move-will-the-next-one-be-up-or-down/

Part II

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/08/26/2173352/it-really-is-very-quiet/

Rise and fall….

http://ritholtz.com/2016/08/employment-selected-information-industries/

So, how many oil states are there?

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

The ‘death’ of Wallstreet

http://uk.businessinsider.com/wall-streets-slow-devastating-decline-in-one-chart-2016-9

What? The end of the Feds-day phenomenon…?

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/08/how-to-lie-with-fed-statistics/

But wait. It has changed it into the FOMC-week phenomenon..!

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21706278-central-bank-may-exert-strange-sway-over-stockmarket-returns-long-arm

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

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

Ten open questions for the Techno Optimist

http://www.digitopoly.org/2016/08/31/ten-open-questions-for-the-techno-optimist/

Saudi economy in trouble?

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

Twice in one week: the problem with the Saudi economy

http://www.businessinsider.com/investors-scramble-for-saudi-arabia-debt-2016-9

On China’s rising influence in the Asian financial markets

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp16173.pdf

 

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