Good morning. Your daily newspaper…

http://ritholtz.com/2017/06/trump-world-drop-dead/

And here is a bit of an assessment of what it means, according to these blogs/reports

https://www.businessinsider.nl/environmental-consequences-trump-us-paris-agreement-2017-6/
https://ig.ft.com/trump-paris-agreement-speech-annotator/
https://www.ft.com/content/7f3a92aa-46ed-11e7-8d27-59b4dd6296b8

Still need to read this: “GDP and capturing the benefits of the Internet economy”
http://voxeu.org/article/gdp-and-capturing-benefits-internet-economy

“Is the United States Becoming Less of an Optimal Currency Area?”

http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.nl/2017/05/is-united-states-becoming-less-of.html

“Will President Trump rescue failing pension funds?” Uhm….

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21722890-governments-safety-net-private-pensions-fraying-will-president-trump

Financial markets up until June

https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/may-2017-asset-class-performance/

What has the US labour market done in May

http://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-report-preview-may-2017-6

So growth of 4% is feasible…

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2017/05/the-new-york-fed-dsge-model-forecast-may-2017.html

Oil on the way out?

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-01/gaming-twitter-and-lessons-from-george-carlin

EMD investors take note

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/06/01/2189624/guest-post-em-sovereigns-buy-defaultlessness/

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