Good morning. The shift of the electorate of the Republicans

http://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-rode-waves-of-populism-until-it-crashed-the-party-1477492356

Can this be true? And how does this picture change if you actually pay down on your debt as well?

http://unassumingeconomist.com/2016/10/housing-in-the-u-s-affordable-or-not/

Interesting chart from the ECB on financial structures.

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/reportonfinancialstructures201610.en.pdf

Remarkably stable GDP growth in China, despite its very, very high growth rate…

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21709328-has-any-country-ever-grown-repetitively-china-greatest-moderation

Negative yielding debt, the breakdown

http://ritholtz.com/2016/10/negative-yielding-debt/

A bit of background on driverless cars

http://humantransit.org/2016/10/are-fully-driverless-vehicles-coming-soon-reasons-for-doubt.html

Brexit: that is not going to hurt…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/10/truth-trade

An effort to quantify the economic costs of global warming

http://voxeu.org/article/climate-change-and-cost-inaction

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