This hasn’t made any difference, apparently

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/2016/11/04/donald-trump-the-unauthorized-database-of-false-things.html

And this is how other countries would have voted

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/11/daily-chart-4

Cool chart on the polling margin of error

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21710024-how-mid-sized-error-led-rash-bad-forecasts-epic-fail

“Sharpening the Arithmetic of Active Management”

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2849071&download=yes

“Saving China’s stock market”

http://voxeu.org/article/saving-china-s-stock-market

Stocks since 1500!

https://trader535.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/a-history-of-share-prices/

Debt meets r-g.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/11/04/bitesize-sovereign-debt-default-and-r-g/

Interesting chart, but will it hold (and what does it mean for the S&P for the next three years)?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-single-best-stock-market-predictor-is-saying-now-2016-06-21

On core inflation and monetary policy

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/11/bogeyman-or-bogey

A tale of two cities…

http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/blog/four-decades-of-discontent-trumps-a-strong-2015-for-us-jobs-and-pay-in-the-race-to-the-white-house/

What’s up with Italy…?

http://ritholtz.com/2016/11/change-carbon-intensity/

Extreme poverty: is it gone yet?

http://voxeu.org/article/know-your-facts-poverty-numbers

Expanding copyright just to keep a mouse protected…

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/gaius-publius-tpp-is-a-monopoly-protection-scheme-the-exact-opposite-of-a-free-trade-deal.html

The trade of the millennium: go long universities!

http://voxeu.org/article/how-universities-boost-economic-growth

Support for the euro through time

http://voxeu.org/article/public-support-euro

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