Good morning. 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

When the FOMC-day phenomenon stopped, they 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

Ten open questions for the Techno Optimist (via @wishmaster_nl)

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

Probably worth the read: “Yuval Noah Harari on big data, Google and the end of free will

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c.html

“What Else Can Central Banks Do?”

http://voxeu.org/content/what-else-can-central-banks-do

Interesting, but 1) old and 2) does not say anything on the relative importance in the economy

http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-needs-to-reform-state-owned-enterprises-2016-9?r=US&IR=T

The IS/LM-NAC model

http://voxeu.org/article/reinventing-lm-explain-secular-stagnation

Twin surpluses…

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21706263-german-budget-surpluses-are-bad-global-economy-more-spend-less-thrift

Not much shifting going on…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-chart

The ‘death’ of Wallstreet

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

Well, the middle one is not that surprising…

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-01/index-funds-turn-40-hacking-traders-emotions

Currency statistics!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/foreign-exchange-trading-of-the-dollar-2016-9

Twice in one week: the problem with the Saudi economy

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

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