Best in Economics this week: March 24

Sell!!!

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http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2017/03/20/gradual-improvements-go-unnoticed/

Fascinating chart looking at the composition of the billionaires
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http://ritholtz.com/2017/03/world-map-billionaires/

Approval rates of Trump

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https://medium.com/@davepell/this-is-37-3153b4138628#.572hbi72q

Could that be linked to this perhaps…?

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http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2017/03/the-worlds-easiest-chart-to-make.html

Or with this? The plans of Trump in perspective
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-11?fsrc=rss

Very cool interactive tool showing migrants across the globe (via @leonmwc)
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http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/05/17/global-migrant-stocks/?country=NL&date=2015

Blackstone’s warning on illiquid debt funds
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https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-03-20/blackstone-sends-a-warning-to-illiquid-debt-funds

Go Long financials?
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https://www.businessinsider.nl/asset-class-sp-500-industry-annualized-total-return-performance-chart-2017-3/

Millenials, the hype remains…
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https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21719501-would-turn-conventional-wisdom-renting-better-labour-mobility-its

Pretty neat chart actually, even though it looks as if something has gone wrong
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http://econompicdata.blogspot.nl/2017/03/mean-reversion-cab-be-captured-via.html

Does this explain the decline in labour share?
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https://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2017/03/20/chart-of-the-week-inequality-and-the-decline-in-labor-share-of-income/

Grexit is back? Never been away, right?
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http://www.businessinsider.com/greece-debt-grexit-eurozone-imf-2017-3

Brexit thinking
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-15

A pretty long speech (but interesting) by Haldane on productivity
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http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/speeches/2017/speech968.pdf

Trump may want to use this chart

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http://voxeu.org/article/competition-china-reduced-innovation-us

The difference between median (left) and mean (middle) wealth and what it means

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http://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.com/2017/03/us-has-worst-wealth-inequality-of-any.html

Cost of living in the world, according to the Economist

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-13

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