Good Morning! The Zippo lighter. The barbie doll. The ipone.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-29/anxiety-murder-and-the-case-for-humans
Sure. Buht since when is the Fed in the business of scaring the public by calling recessione?
Cool interactive chart on minerals in Africa
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/a-dark-side-to-the-commodity-boom-africa
The Bank of England on the mortgage/housing market
http://www.businessinsider.com/self-reinforcing-feedback-loop-mortgage-market-2017-6
While the UK economy is seriously cooling down
http://www.businessinsider.com/lloyds-uk-business-confidence-plummeted-after-junes-snap-election-2017-6
This one has been doing the rounds, although there are some questions on the data (via Rikkert Scholten)
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/06/28/2190711/snap-av-us-corporate-return-on-equity-falls-to-new-low/
A word of warning…
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21724404-nervous-hear-echoes-build-up-financial-crisis-alarm-grows-about
Deglobalisation meets banking
http://www.bis.org/publ/work650.pdf
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