Good morning. The feel good chart du jour
http://ritholtz.com/2017/04/world-100-people-last-two-centuries/
The rise-fall-rise of oil production in the US
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-oil-rigs/
More trouble for the US economy, or just a blip?
https://www.businessinsider.nl/bank-lending-slowdown-2017-4/
“Do youths graduating in a recession incur permanent losses?”
http://ritholtz.com/2017/04/youths-graduating-recession-incur-permanent-losses/
Taxes around the world
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-11/sorry-america-your-taxes-aren-t-high
A bit of history
http://voxeu.org/article/european-and-asian-incomes-1914-new-take-great-divergence
Real returns and valuation
https://ofdollarsanddata.com/just-keep-buying-7d31402231c9
Cool overview of Chinese investments in the US
http://ritholtz.com/2017/04/180256/
The freedom countdown
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/04/daily-chart-11
And the schedule for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/04/schedule-for-week-of-apr-16-2017.html
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