Best in Economics this week: September 23

Very cool overview of all our cognitive biases! (via ritholtz)

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https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.gn13xpm0x

A one way bet, it seems
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http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-save-for-retirement-2016-9

Lower. Always lower (with the important exception of the US)
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http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/5628

Lower. Always lower.
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https://www.ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/the-private-debt-crisis

The FED President, the game (and I am going for hyperinflation here!)

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http://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher-resources/chair-federal-reserve-economy-simulation-game/

The wealth pyramid. They made it start at $ 1 million..

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http://ritholtz.com/2016/09/penta-millionaires-rising-class/

And there must be a link with this one

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http://www.businessinsider.com/racial-wage-gap-is-largest-since-1979-2016-9

The Chinese are going abroad

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/chinese-tourism-is-one-of-the-most-compelling-growth-stories-2016-9

Notes and coins in circulation are on the rise in the UK….

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/brits-are-hoarding-money-post-brexit-2016-9

FT: “Global bond issuance highest in nearly a decade”

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https://www.ft.com/content/a30ffee6-7c3f-11e6-ae24-f193b105145e

Trump, the impact

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/16/what-a-donald-trump-presidency-would-do-to-the-global-economy/

Trump, the impact part II

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https://piie.com/system/files/documents/piieb16-6.pdf

https://www.ft.com/content/e75a9a88-7e0c-11e6-8e50-8ec15fb462f4

Trump, the impact part III

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http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21707558-hillary-clintons-fiscal-plan-fiddly-donald-trumps-absurd-moneys-conversation

Income inequality all the way back to 1350!

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http://www.nature.com/news/income-inequality-is-cyclical-1.20618

Global inflation!

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http://www.bis.org/publ/work582.pdf

Credit warnings, especially for China

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http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/09/19/2175254/one-of-these-is-not-like-the-others-the-bis-on-china-edition/

The biggest bubble on record? What about them tullip’es?

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http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/09/the-greatest-bubble-of-all-time/m

The BIS quarterly review. With lots of interesting stuff.

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http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1609.htm

Cool chart on fraud in the Russian elections

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-chart-12

Cool, but completely irrelevant information on age in films

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2016/09/19/these-charts-reveal-how-bad-the-film-industrys-sexism-is/

 

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