Weekend links 30 April – 1 May 2016

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Afternoon with Gin Fizz, 1961, Elisabeth Cummings, Art Gallery of NSW

China:

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United Kingdom

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Americas:

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Terra Specufestorus

Commodities

Capital Markets

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Global Macro

…And furthermore…

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and if that isn’t your taste try this….

Saint Saëns Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78, Järvi

spiritually uplifting…

And finally a gift to the MacroBusiness punting masses from subscriber, David.

The MB Comment Sidebar – Works with Chrome based browsers

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Well, after some more polishing and some very valuable review and input from a fellow member here, I’ve got something that you might find useful. You can get it here.

This is a tool intended to enhance the comments section of the Australian economic blog https://www.macrobusiness.com.au. I am not affiliated with macrobusiness in any way and this extension is not endorsed or recommended by the site’s owners or administrators. I am a member of the site (a subscriber). This extension only affects pages from the https://www.macrobusiness.com.au domain and it works by altering the way the information is displayed in your browser.

This extension will add a sidebar on the right hand side of any article that is opened on macrobusiness. The sidebar will contain the comments for that article listed in chronological order from newest at the top to oldest at the bottom. The sidebar can be collapsed by clicking on it and re-enlarged by clicking again on the collapsed bar. The sidebar shows the comment author, the approximate elapsed time since the comment was made, and the first 50 characters of the comment. The ‘author’ part is a link which will lead directly to the comment.

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By clicking on the “M” icon at the top, a user can also create a ‘favourites’ list of commentators whose comments will be highlighted. Type the name of a commentator in the ‘Member name’ box and click ‘Add name to favourites’. Any comments by members listed as favourites will be highlighted in the side bar in bold pink text when the comment is by that user. Names can be removed from the favourites list by first clicking ‘View highlight list’ then clicking directly on the name to be removed. If no names are added to the highlight list all comments will have the same appearance.

Thank you David, I reckon quite a few MB readers and subscribers will find that a useful tool.

About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.