Good morning. Most relevant chart I have seen in, well… days?
This title says it all…
http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2017/04/04/world-economic-outlook-april-2017
Best of last week!
https://lukasdaalder.com/2017/04/13/best-in-economics-this-week-april-14/
The curse of savings, according to The economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2017/04/cash-strapped-pensioners
Liquidity: the most underappreciated element of any financial market
http://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2017/4/17/revisiting-market-liquidity-the-case-of-us-corporate-bonds
French GDP per capita starting in 1300. I am not even sure the ‘per capita’ bit is reliable…
https://notesonliberty.com/2017/04/10/the-gdp-real-wages-and-working-hours-of-france-since-the-13th-century/
Some cool drawdown charts on political events in the past
http://www.businessinsider.com/guide-to-geopolitical-risk-for-markets-2017-4
The new IMF data mappert!
http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD
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