Good morning. The electric car boom will feed the lithium demand spike

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-lithium-battery-future/

But… what happened to the rocketman?

http://ritholtz.com/2017/10/people-trump-attacked-twitter-since-becoming-president/

Economists on debt

http://voxeu.org/article/global-risks-rising-debt-and-asset-prices

This chart comes with the title: “Long-Term U.S. Treasury Bonds Have Lost Their ‘Specialness’”

http://www.nber.org/digest/oct17/w23759.shtml

How to distort by using the scale on the axis

https://www.businessinsider.nl/bitcoin-not-biggest-bubble-negative-yielding-bonds-2017-10/

I am going to check this chart, as I have some doubts about it…

http://ritholtz.com/2017/10/weekend-reads-290/

And here is another one that I do not trust…

https://www.businessinsider.nl/goldman-sachs-thinks-were-heading-into-a-bear-market-2017-10/

How international house prices react to US yields

http://www.bis.org/publ/work665.pdf

And the schedule for the week ahead!

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/10/schedule-for-week-of-oct-15-2017.html

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