Good morning. Eat that, Bill Gates!

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-31/manafort-mueller-and-fixing-democracy

Fund managers, take notice! “Liquidity Stress Tests for Investment Funds: A Practical Guide”

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2017/10/31/Liquidity-Stress-Tests-for-Investment-Funds-A-Practical-Guide-45332

I’ll give this chart a A for trying, but but couldn’t they have made a better looking picture?

https://www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/aftermath-financial-crises-advanced-countries

“Behavioural economics is also useful in macroeconomics”

http://voxeu.org/article/behavioural-economics-also-useful-macroeconomics

That does it: I will not die this year!

https://www.businessinsider.nl/funeral-costs-burial-caskets-prices-inflation-2017-10/

“Measuring Global and Country-specific uncertainty

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2017/10/30/Measuring-Global-and-Country-Specific-Uncertainty-45168

About that highest tax rate in the world…

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/10/31/2195336/the-most-elegant-corporate-tax-reform/

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