Good morning. A stock market’s classic

http://ritholtz.com/2017/02/relative-sizes-world-stock-markets-end-1899-vs-end-2016/

The US exports a lot of Aircrafts…

http://ritholtz.com/2017/02/highest-value-export-good-state/

The Economists’ French election tracker

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/02/daily-chart-20

Taxing robots: not such a good idea according to the Economist

https://qz.com/911968/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes/
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21717374-bill-gatess-proposal-revealing-about-challenge-automation-poses-why-taxing

The coming pension problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-21/two-thirds-of-americans-aren-t-putting-money-in-their-401-k

“5 Reasons Germany Isn’t Suffering in the 21st Century”

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-24/5-reasons-germany-isn-t-suffering-in-the-21st-century

The Trump rally (if there is such a thing) in perspective

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-22/understanding-the-trump-rally

The AI inflation paradox

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/02/23/2184973/ais-inflation-paradox/

The IMF has been productive: a country report on India

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2017/02/22/India-Selected-Issues-44671

Multi factor smart beta investing. Hope you still know what I am talking about…

https://www.researchaffiliates.com/en_us/publications/articles/594-a-smoother-path-to-outperformance-with-multifactor-smart-beta-investing.html

I can tell you one thing already: there will be a rebound coming up

http://ritholtz.com/2017/02/economic-growth-keep-slowing/

Country report on Turkey by the IMF

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2017/02/03/Turkey-2017-Article-IV-Consultation-Press-Release-Staff-Report-and-Statement-by-the-44614

Losing out…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/02/daily-chart-16

And the schedule for the week to come

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/02/schedule-for-week-of-feb-26-2017.html

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