Sunday Macro
- The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth (NY Times)
- Era of Benign Neglect of House Price Booms is Over (IMF Direct)….the horse went that a way….
- Managing the revenue from natural resources—what’s a Finance Minister to do? (IMF Direct) …huh? You give it out as tax cuts and tell the punterariat to leverage it for debt to plough into real estate, don’t you?
- Why The ‘Oil Curse’ Can’t Hurt Bare-Chested Putin (OilPrice.com)
- UglyGorilla Hack of U.S. Utility Exposes Cyberwar Threat (Bloomberg)
- The whims of the super-rich can turn politics into a lottery (FT.com)
- CEO Pay Continues to Rise as Typical Workers Are Paid Less (Economic Policy Institute)…videos, charts, the whole nine yards….all pointing to economic insanity
- A school system that needs dawn raids needs reform (FT.com)
- Iraq’s implosion reflects Syria’s lost national narrative (FT.com)
- German brewers fear fracking will spoil their beer (FT.com)
- Shane Smith, the hard-partying mogul who has won over the millennials (FT.com)
- Why Tesla Gave Up on Patents (The Atlantic)
- What Happens If You Have No Welfare and No Job? (The Atlantic)
- The Real Reason That Young People Can’t Find Jobs (The Atlantic)
- The IMF’s False Confession (Project-Syndicate)
- Income Inequality and the Creation of Dynastic Wealth (BloggingHeads.TV) – Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View, The Up Side of Down), Ryan Avent (The Economist) chew over Piketty (Video) – very informative of you have an hour spare
- It’s Hysteresis: Why the World Might Be Forever Poorer Thanks to the Great Recession (Slate)
- Recession Taught Millennials Importance of Saving Now (Think Advisor)
- The Unsustainability of Organic Farming (Project-Syndicate)
- The Rover (Slate) (Film review, Australian film – anyone seen it?)
- A Requiem for Technocracy (Project-Syndicate)
- Uber’s Real Challenge: Leveraging the Network Effect (NY Times)
- Remember the Problems With Mortgage Defaults? They’re Coming Back With Student Loans (NY Times)
- The great workers who get no credit in a self-promotion obsessed world (Washington Post)…thought provoking piece…..
- A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff (Musings on Markets)
- Home of Cards? Politics drives housing in weird ways, Surprising ways that personal politics shapes housing decisions (HousingWire)
- Undeniable macroeconomic truths (RWER)
- Facing Age Discrimination, Older Job Seekers Edit Work History And Disguise Their Ages On Resumes (IB Times)
- Jérôme Kerviel: from rags to riches to ruin (World Finance)
- Chinese culture all but forgotten in the rush to urbanize (CER)
- Are Hysteresis effects reversible (Piera)…there is that word again…
- Iraq’s civil war threatens structure of global energy supply for years (Telegraph)
- The Importance Of Trend Lines In Price Confirmation (SeeitMarket)