Eat that, Bill Gates!

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

From a reversal perspective, this can just as well be seen as a ominous chart…

http://www.businessinsider.com/emerging-markets-carry-trade-treasury-yields-2017-11

A pretty extensive discussion on lowflation in this report

http://voxeu.org/content/and-yet-it-moves-inflation-and-great-recession

Cash is King no more…

https://qz.com/1107328/theres-precedent-for-amazon-competing-with-so-many-companies-it-doesnt-end-well/

Machine learning stock picking. Not as good as one might think

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/10/26/2195292/machine-learning-the-market/

Ok, so n=4?

http://www.businessinsider.com/ubs-predicts-brexit-recession-2017-10

Didn’t Sell in May? Please feel free to stay.

http://ritholtz.com/2017/11/much-sell-may-go-away/

It’s ba-hack! (thanks to the euro)

https://twitter.com/HolgerSandte/status/925679723417612288

The Economist on inflation

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21730930-central-banks-are-beginning-raise-interest-rates-anyway-global

Remarkable trend in Japan (and in the US, of course)

http://www.hamiltonproject.org/papers/lessons_from_the_rise_of_womens_labor_force_participation_in_japan

“Behavioural economics is also useful in macroeconomics”

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

What I find most remarkable in this one, is the lack of a 2007-2009 capex reduction

https://www.businessinsider.nl/stock-market-news-capex-spending-causing-huge-shift-2017-10/

CEO Goldman (Blankfein) earns at least twice as much as all these combined…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-25/looking-for-wage-growth-ask-latvia-s-central-bank-governor

Oops. “The tyranny of benchmarks”

http://voxeu.org/article/tyranny-benchmarks

About that highest tax rate in the world…

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

Sub-Saharan growth rebound mostly linked to Nigeria

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/SSA/Issues/2017/10/19/sreo1017

 

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