Good morning. They left the best one out: in Finland it is called Fixit
https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/831486149247934464

Ah yes, this chart has a beard. And it is nonsense

http://www.businessinsider.com/consumer-confidence-versus-sp500-from-blackrock-larry-fink-2017-4

Austerity hurt growth in Europe, according to this study

http://voxeu.org/article/austerity-aftermath-great-recession

US student loans are coming to the fore again

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/student-debt-bubble-sucks-even-more-out-of-economy-and-ruins-lives-yet-officials-keep-inflating-it.html

This should be interesting to read, from the IMF

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2017/04/04/world-economic-outlook-april-2017

Is China pegging to a basket, or to the dollar?

http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2017/04/09/so-is-china-pegging-to-the-dollar-or-to-a-basket/

And here’s another 220 page of reading material: the ECB annual report

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/annual/html/ar2016.en.html#IDofChapter1_1_2

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