Good morning. This one is interesting…

https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/are-stocks-too-expensive

Much of this is the US though

https://www.businessinsider.nl/global-market-cap-is-about-to-hit-100-trillion-2017-12/

The BIS quarterly review

https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1712.pdf

The Brexit chart of the week

https://www.businessinsider.nl/nomura-data-brexit-banking-jobs-city-of-london-2017-11/

McKinsey on the impact of automation (via @Johan3704)

https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/future-of-organizations-and-work/what-is-the-future-of-work

Certainly not the best of the bubble charts that have been doing the rounds lately, but here you go

http://ritholtz.com/2017/12/bitcoin-captured-imagination-money-investors-transforming-tech-curiosity-mainstream-topic/

“An Economist’s Take on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies: It’s a Giant Scam and the Mother of All Bubbles”

http://douglaslcampbell.blogspot.nl/2017/11/an-economists-take-on-bitcoin-and.html

And one final on bitcoin: “I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop what you are doing.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lfobc/i_am_a_timetraveler_from_the_future_here_to_beg/

Growth over the past ten years…

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21731822-mismatch-between-its-economic-and-political-institutions-persists-euro

QT

http://www.businessinsider.com/fed-tightening-why-you-shouldnt-be-worried-2017-11

“How much is priced in”

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2017/11/how-much-is-priced-in-market-expectations-for-fomc-rate-hikes-from-different-angles.html

And as always, the schedule for the US releases this week

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2017/12/schedule-for-week-of-dec-3-2017.html

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