Good morning. Another peak indicator?

https://www.businessinsider.nl/stock-market-optimism-among-consumers-highest-since-2000-2018-1/

Poverty in the developed world…

http://ritholtz.com/2018/01/u-s-can-no-longer-hide-deep-poverty-problem/

Brexit, the IKEA way (via @leonmwc)

https://twitter.com/Cartoon4sale/status/958034143903961089

The Financial Times on the prospects of an overheating German economy

https://www.ft.com/content/72e04478-0448-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5

What the Italian polls say

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/01/daily-chart-20

What’s wrong with value…?

http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2018/01/24/whats-wrong-with-value/

Slicing and dicing the US labour markets in search of the Trump impact

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/trump-job-promises

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