Good morning. The how-did-Yellen-do charts are spreading fast

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/11/daily-chart-1

Here’s another couple

http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.nl/2017/11/yellen-retrospective_2.html

A pretty clear tax-cut for the rich outcome, it looks like..

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/joint-committee-on-taxation-distribution-tables-confirm-skewed-priorities-of

Say What?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change

Real wages in the late 1800s. Amsterdam was doing just fine…

http://voxeu.org/article/origins-italian-north-south-divide

“…unless somebody does something dumb” Now, who would be doing that?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/the-global-economy-looks-good-for-2018-unless-somebody-does-something-dumb

And the schedules for the week to come

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/11/schedule-for-week-of-nov-5-2017.html

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