Good Morning. Trump buys himself some time on the debt ceiling

https://www.bespokepremium.com/the-closer/the-closer-habemus-paciscor-9617/

US disasters in perspective

http://ritholtz.com/2017/09/economic-impact-major-disasters/

This Amazon thing is getting serious…

https://www.businessinsider.nl/list-stores-closing-2017-9/

On the low birth rates of Europe

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/09/daily-chart-2

ETFs outside the equity market space

https://www.bespokepremium.com/fixed-income-weekly/fixed-income-weekly-9617/

How high the US taxes really are?

http://www.businessinsider.com/is-us-highest-taxed-country-like-trump-claims-2017-9

A bit of reading on racial gap in the US labour market

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http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2017/september/disappointing-facts-about-black-white-wage-gap/

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