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MARKETS & ECONOMICS
We are in May–Should we Sell and Go Away? – Turnkey Analyst
5 Things To Ponder: Sell In May & Go Away – dshort
New format on Quant Corner starts next week – TradingFloor
The decline and fall of trading as a money
maker for giant banks – Quartz
On the intriguing drop in commodity correlation – FT
Banks exiting
commodities could be behind the correlation reversal, which in and of itself is
statistically meaningful and therefore worth observing.
Why it is Hard to Win in Investing – Aleph
blog
Lessons from my Adventures as a Nanny Trader – SMB
Three Best Practices for Turning Trading Stress
Into Performance – Traderfeed
Hedge Funds and the 40-Year Cycle – Catallactic
Things That Make You Go Hmmm... – Grant
Williams / ZH
The Rise of Corporate Impunity – Pro
Publica
Meet the only Wall St. executive prosecuted as a result of the
financial crisis. Has justice been served?
Martin Wolf proposes the death of banking – Coppola
Comment
Financial intermediation and shadow banking
through commodities – FT
Prominent Economists Call for End to Fractional
Reserve Banking – ZH
The funny money debate rumbles on – FT
A Critique of Piketty's Solution to Widening
Wealth Inequality – Charles
Hugh Smith
OFF-TOPIC
Antibiotic resistance: The drugs don’t work – The
Economist
Why This Movie Perfectly Re-Created a Picasso,
Destroyed It, and Mailed the Evidence to Picasso’s Estate – Vanity Fair
Inside the world of
legal art forgery, for the sake of movies—what led Julian Schnabel to wreck a
fake Picasso, Scarlett Johansson to learn paint grinding, and George Clooney to
fill a room full of fake, styrofoam frames.
The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of Secrets and
Light – Vanity
Fair
Whether hero or
traitor, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is the most
important whistle-blower of modern times, one whose disclosures will
reverberate for decades to come. With extensive input from Snowden himself,
Suzanna Andrews, Bryan Burrough, and Sarah Ellison have the spy-novel-worthy
tale of how a geeky dropout from the Maryland suburbs found himself alone and terrified in a
Hong Kong hotel room, spilling America’s most carefully guarded secrets to the world.
Perfection Anxiety – Vanity
Fair
After spending $19
million on their wedding, and $85 million on an L.A. mansion, James Stunt and
Petra Ecclestone have purchased one of Britain’s great cultural treasures, a
17th-century, $20 million Van Dyck. So, what’s it like to have too much money?
Very stressful.
7 Ways To Knock An Hour Off Your Work Day – Fast
Company
5 Books That Will Change Your Life – Farnam
Street
FINNISH
Saksan
menestys ja Suomi – on harhakuvitelma uskoa Saksan edun olevan Suomen etu – Tyhmyri
Miksi
Suomessa kaikki on kielletty? – Hannu
Visti
Kreikan
selviytyminen veloistaan – Sirpa
Abdallah / US
Lipponen,
Katainen ja maan etu – Paavo
Väyrynen / US
Sedillä
on teille asiaa – Henri
Myllyniemi / US
Euro ja
turvallisuuspoliittinen harha – keksittyjen puolusteluiden ketju jatkuu – Tyhmyri
Professori:
"Synkkyyden lähettiläs" paljasti eliitin masinoinnin – TalSa
Professorit kritisoivat OP-Pohjolan
pääjohtajan Reijo Karhinen lausuntoja, joissa tämä syyttää poliitikkoja,
yritysjohtajia ja mediaa synkkyyden lietsomisesta. Tutkijoiden mukaan Karhinen
on ollut itse luomassa "hulluuden huippua" ja yksinkertaistaa asioita
liikaa.
Kahdeksan
askelta tuloeroista velkakriisiin – Jan
Hurri / TalSa
Tuloerojen kasvaminen ei ole vain poliittinen
tai moraalinen ongelma. Sen sijaan tuloerot ovat koko talouden tärkeä
taustamuuttuja. Maailmantalouden tasapainokysymyksiä tutkinut talousprofessori
nimeää tuloerojen liiallisen kasvun jopa velkakriisin tärkeäksi alkutekijäksi.
Hän listaa kahdeksan askelta tuloeroista kriisiin ja suurtyöttömyyteen.
Investointipankkiiri
Kreikan tukidokumenteista: ”Karmeaa luettavaa” – Uusi
Suomi