Good morning. Good news: bullish sentiment crashes! (or is this just noise?)

https://www.bespokepremium.com/think-big-blog/bullish-sentiment-crashes-2/

Competition is out of the window

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21731441-new-measure-growing-problem-what-annual-reports-say-or-do-not-about

I did not read this,

http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2017/11/16/Booms-Crises-and-Recoveries-A-New-Paradigm-of-the-Business-Cycle-and-its-Policy-Implications-45368

“Productivity Growth and Real Interest Rates in the Long Run”

https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/economic-commentary/2017-economic-commentaries/ec-201720-productivity-real-interest-rates-long-run.aspx

Billionaires are pretty rare…

https://www.businessinsider.nl/worlds-richest-people-where-they-live-2017-11/

And this one is linked to it

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-millionaires-growing-faster-than-anywhere-in-world-2017-11

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