Bitcoin is now Chinese

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-trading-china-yuan-remnibi-2017-1

Trump on international affairs…

http://ritholtz.com/2017/01/davos-according-trump/

GDP linked bonds. Read all about it!

http://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2017/1/16/gdp-linked-bonds-a-primer

This is a bit of a surprise, right? (and more)

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/01/18/2182581/what-do-americans-actually-think-about-the-issues-that-trump-is-loudest-about/

How sensitive are the world’s equity markets for a Trump trade dispute?

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/01/16/2182432/pricing-in-a-trump-border-tax/

Ageing

http://ritholtz.com/2017/01/an-aging-world-percentage-of-the-population-age-65-in-2015-and-2050/

Too much credit growth will hurt growth, according to this blog

http://voxeu.org/article/finance-and-growth-direction-causality

And talking about excessive credit growth: a bit of insight on China

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-problem-with-chinas-corporate-debt-load-2017-1

Capital outflow from China

http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2017/01/17/chinas-fell-by-around-45-billion-in-december-using-the-pboc-data/

And here is some more on that

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/01/19/2182669/chinese-capital-flight-is-back/

Where deflation lives…

http://ritholtz.com/2017/01/sunday-reads-78/

This shows what people would do with free helicopter money. I do not see the harm in saving, but some do…

http://voxeu.org/article/helicopter-money-loved-not-spent

The BIS has written a report on the sterling flash crash

http://www.bis.org/publ/mktc09.pdf

The spillover impact of the Shale gas revolution

http://www.imf.org/External/Pubs/FT/irb/2016/04/index.pdf

Well, I am happy that someone is tracking this…

https://medium.com/@PaulStollery/all-of-the-fucks-given-online-in-2016-58c60edd6e44#.1w72xx9k8

 

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