Good Morning! “US inflation decline is too persistent to ignore”

https://www.ft.com/content/cd6a1f41-809d-34c3-b244-356686407643

Zombie lending in Italy

http://voxeu.org/article/credit-misallocation-during-european-financial-crisis

Another why-productivity-is-not-low-assessment

https://www.aei.org/publication/innovation-isnt-dead-another-wave-of-higher-productivity-might-be-on-its-way/

And here is some more on that topic

http://voxeu.org/article/slow-productivity-growth-may-not-be-new-normal-us

The full assessments on Trump’s tweeting (not particularly relevant, I would say)

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-17/bubbles-breakouts-and-the-next-babe-ruth

And here is another one on Trump

http://ritholtz.com/2017/07/top-jobs-trumps-administration-vacant/

And here is another key Whitehouse post unfilled so far

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/07/daily-chart-9

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