Come on! Economists beat magicians anytime!

https://teespring.com/econ-04?p=share#pid=377&cid=100069&sid=front

Ouch…

https://www.frbatlanta.org/cqer/research/gdpnow.aspx

Should have, could have, would have…

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-16/return-of-the-governator-and-linking-brains

Them polite analysts

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-13/manipulating-data-and-middle-age-loneliness

Bonds: emerging versus developed.

https://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2017/03/14/three-popular-charts/

Europe in 2035? (via alphaville)

https://twitter.com/evghenia_v/status/840987370283503617

This one is important…

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/economy/labor-share-economic-output.html

Worries, worries, worries.

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/worlds-biggest-investors-worried-about-european-elections-and-trump-2017-3-1001838310-1001838310

All fake news, apparently

http://www.blastr.com/2017-3-9/breaking-news-scott-pruitt-head-epa-doesnt-think-carbon-dioxide-main-driver-global-warming

See? Those polls are always wrong (but not always in the same direction)

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-10

I am not sure whether this data is reliable or not, but it looks nice anyway

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-force-on-wall-street-family-offices-1488991396

Mmmm. This does not look very promising for the US

https://www.businessinsider.nl/brunswick-survey-on-attitudes-towards-business-2017-3/

The end of secular stagnation?

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21718500-improving-economic-data-do-not-necessarily-indicate-underlying-health-end

An interesting bit of reading on acquisitions

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/03/13/2185852/trouble-ahead-for-pe-investors/

Not fifty, but three ways to leave your lover

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-euro-breakup-or-saved/

Bitcoin, blockchain and trouble

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/bitcoin-miners-signal-revolt-in-push-to-fix-sluggish-blockchain

China. Really, this will not disappear all of a sudden.

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/03/16/2186119/china-treads-closer-to-a-day-of-debt-reckoning/

 

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