Sunday Macro
- Symphony of Destruction: How Stocks, Bonds and Crude Are Reprising 2007 (SeeItMarket)
- Why We’re All Crony Capitalists, Like It or Not (NY Times)
- The World’s Top Polluters And What They’re Doing About It (OilPrice.com)
- The Real Reason Shell Halted Its Ukrainian Shale Operations (OilPrice.com)
- Harley-Davidson to Introduce Electric Motorcycle (CBS) …it had better make the right sound…
- 7 Homes Built with Shipping Containers (CBS)
- Americans get more depressed over job losses than Europeans (CBS)
- Is Vitamin D the key to longer life? (CBS)
- Vasectomies Should Not Be Used as Punishment (Slate)
- Why Audiences Hate Hard News—and Love Pretending Otherwise (Atlantic)
- U.S. says basic outline in place for international services trade deal (Reuters) ...if it looks like a cactus should you be putting it in your?…
- Career-wise, is it better to be smart or hardworking? (Fortune CNN)
- SPECULATION MISCALCULATION (Roger Montgomery)
- The most important 11 charts from a humdrum week of economic data (Quartz) good charts – and it was a seriously boring week
- Two Kinds of People You Should Never Negotiate With (HBR)
- Should Governments Step In and Start Issuing Longevity Bonds? (QFinance)
- Longevity and Annuities—The challenge of giving a secure pension (QFinance)
- Ten Oldest Company Logos in the World (24/7)
- Nato claims Moscow funding anti-fracking groups (FT.com)
- 97% of water used in bitumen extraction can be recycled by gigantic new evaporators (Financial Post)
- Europe’s Worst Central Banker (Bloomberg)
- The Pope’s attack on capitalism shows he knows nothing about how the world really works (Telegraph) …I wonder what the Pontiff and TestosterTone would make of one another
- The global clamp down on tax evasion (Economia)
- Four Reasons You Should Care about Big Bank Wind-Down Plans (American Banker) …worth a read…
- Towards a New Golden Age (Pieria)
- The Typo that Destroyed a Space Shuttle (Priceonomics)
- ‘Revolutionary’ Piketty – make very rich pay 80pc tax (Irish Independent)
Trading
- Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: The Costs and Benefits of Market Timing (Musings on Markets)
- Properly Setting Your Trading Goals to Lower Stress (SMB Training)
- 10 Things I’ve Learned About Trading Over The Past Decade (SeeItMarket)
Economics
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- Post-Crash Economics (Project-Syndicate)...well worth a read…
- Thoughts On Skidelsky’s Rant Against The Current Economics Curriculum (INET) ...well worth a read…
- The Interest-Rate Enigma (Project-Syndicate)
- Discounting the very distant future (Vox)
- Investors go mad (again) (BBC) …so it is not just Australian Real Estate?…
- No Industry, no Future? (Bruegel) …maybe someone in Australia could ask this?
Research
- Globalisation, passthrough and the optimal policy response to exchange rates (BIS) (pdf)
- A shadow policy rate to calibrate US monetary policy at the zero lower bound (BIS) (pdf)
- Tax Buoyancy in OECD Countries (IMF) (pdf)
- The US manufacturing base: Four Signs of Strength (Peterson Institute) (pdf)
- Clearing Houses Could Be the Next Source of Chaos (Peterson Institute)