A pretty cool long-term track record on Japan warming

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/04/elephant-bloom

Soft data has been driving the stock markets, hard data has lagged…

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-that-the-trump-trade-is-over-heres-whats-next-for-stocks-131928364.html

The savings glut: it is the corporates that have been saving more…

http://voxeu.org/article/global-corporate-saving-glut

The bubble of our day?

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21720134-japan-dominated-index-late-1980s-didnt-end-well-americas

Two chapters of the Global Financial Stability report have been published!

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/GFSR/Issues/2017/03/30/global-financial-stability-report-april-2017

Hardliners on Brexit

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/04/daily-chart-2

Pretty deadly title this…

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/capitalism-communism-comebacks-and-cows

And here is some more of that

http://ritholtz.com/2017/04/sunday-reads-87/

Obliged reading for all: the IMF on the Netherlands!

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2017/04/03/Kingdom-of-the-Netherlands-Netherlands-Financial-System-Stability-Assessment-44790

The canary down the coal mine, or just some noise?

https://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2017/04/06/cracks-reflation-trade/

China’s confusing trade numbers…

http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2017/04/04/chinas-confusing-trade-and-current-account-numbers/

Cool chart on the historic composition of the Dow

http://ritholtz.com/2017/04/life-times-dow/

Painful.

http://www.etf.com/sections/etf-industry-perspective/vanguard-evolution-active-management?nopaging=1

Remind me to revisit this, five years from now…

http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-post-brexit-trade-deals-2017-4

Interesting chart. Look at France…

http://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-on-brexit-and-the-eu-2017-4

More on the productivity puzzle

https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/productivity-and-bad-bosses/

“Does productivity drive wages? Evidence from sectoral data”

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/03/30/does-productivity-drive-wages-evidence-from-sectoral-data/

Play the fool, fake or truth quiz of the Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/04/daily-chart

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