Best of the Web

Best of the Web: 18-03-14 nr 1847

Good morning. Bonds did not act as a safe haven

http://www.businessinsider.com/global-markets-undergoing-major-change-leaving-investors-at-risk-2018-3

That lengthy UK divorce bill

http://www.businessinsider.com/britain-to-give-annual-money-to-the-eu-for-another-forty-six-years-2018-3

Well, if the rest of the world is doing it, why not Africa?

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/03/daily-chart-7

Some geeky reading on GDP statistics

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2018/03/assessing-trends-in-real-shares

And here’s another

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-12/shares-of-real-gdp-don-t-give-the-real-story-of-manufacturing

Not sure whether these statistics ares right, but it is from Piketty

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2018/03/13/towards-a-union-in-the-union/#xtor=RSS-32280322

 

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