Why are interest rates so low? The Bernank

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/03/30-why-interest-rates-so-low

Frenzied speculative activity in China's equity markets
{http://soberlook.com/2015/03/frenzied-speculative-activity-in-chinas.html}

QE: Central Banks Still Stoking the ‘Insanity Trade’
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/23/central-banks-still-stoking-the-insanity-trade/

Diner Beware
How restaurants trick you into eating less and spending more
{http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/diner-beware/386267/?utm_source=SFTwitter}

12 Best Online Courses for Learning Practical Business Skills
http://time.com/3749228/online-courses-business-skills/

We Buy Broken Gold
http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold

 U.S. Is Awash in Oil, But What About the Rest of the World?
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/17/u-s-is-awash-in-oil-but-what-about-the-rest-of-the-world/

How Scary Is the Bond Market?
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/bond-market-crash-contagion-by-robert-j--shiller-2015-03

Thomas Piketty on the Euro Zone: 'We Have Created a Monster'
{http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/thomas-piketty-interview-about-the-european-financial-crisis-a-1022629.html
}

Could Apple Prove a Game-Changer for Gold?
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/03/could-apple-prove-a-game-changer-for-gold/}

The Land Theory of Value
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2015/03/the-land-theory-of-value.html#more}

worth a pint in the Windmill
{http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/03/03/second-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-til-morning/}

The Strange Urge to Raise Rates
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/the-strange-urge-to-raise-rates/?_r=1}

What is a Trader, from Victor Niederhoffer
{http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=10032}

How Technology Tricks You Into Tipping More
{http://www.nirandfar.com/2015/02/tipping.html}

{http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks}

Study in Microeconomics, zips
{http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364}

Personal Money links
{http://abnormalreturns.com/2015/02/11/personal-finance-links-enough-for-you/}

Bordeaux maps

Borris in NY

{http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/london-tops-list-of-most-popular-cities-in-the-world-for-american-students-10037844.html}

10 Years After – Bordeaux 2005

{http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2015/02/10-years-after-bordeaux-2005}

Brief History of the Oil crash
{http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/2015/02/05/1612277de1.pdf}

Sovereign debt scares– is the U.S. immune?
{http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/02/sovereign-debt-scares-is-the-u-s-immune}

Conquering China’s Mountain of Debt
Cities and townships must give up their unorthodox borrowing
{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/china-aims-to-reduce-local-governments-backdoor-borrowing}

Ultimate weekend Links list
{http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/02/weekend-links-7th-8th-feb-2015/}

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned From Tren Griffin
{http://awealthofcommonsense.com/dozen-things-ive-learned-tren-griffin/}

The Beginner’s Field Guide to Dim Sum
{http://luckypeach.com/dumpling-diplomacy/}

Grilled Cheese and $100 Million of Irrational Exuberance
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-05/grilled-cheese-truck-as-an-irrational-exuberance-indicator}

Stocks will be 'ripped to smithereens': SocGen bear
{http://www.cnbc.com/id/102400384}

Nails it every time, Joseph Calhoun on Bret Easton Eliss, oh and rates
{http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2015/02/01/less-than-zero/}

Cognitive vs. behavioral in psychology, economics, and political science
{http://andrewgelman.com/2015/01/30/cognitive-vs-behavioral-psychology-economics-political-science/}

Greece needs Thatcheropoulous
{http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/02/sentences-to-ponder-about-greece.html}

A High Holborn Pub Stroll – Part 1 | THE HOLBORN
http://theholbornmag.com/2013/01/11/a-holborn-pub-crawl-part-1/

And more
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/10725161/Londons-best-historical-pubs-the-ultimate-tour.html}

The best adventure storieshttp://boingboing.net/2015/02/03/the-best-adventure-stories-for.html

Is Sweden an economically overrated country?
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/01/is-sweden-an-economically-overrated-country.html

Draghi's Dangerous Bet: The Perils of a Weak Euro
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/ecb-decision-to-weaken-euro-comes-with-pluses-and-minuses-a-1015322.html

Penny Stock Pawnbroker Had a Clever Trick to Get Paid.
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-29/penny-stock-pawnbroker-had-a-clever-trick-to-get-paid}

What’s driving the price of oil down?
'little tool you can use to calculate how much of the change in the price of oil between any two dates would be attributed to demand factors'

{http://econbrowser.com/archives/2015/01/whats-driving-the-price-of-oil-down-2}

Lauren Randolph















{https://medium.com/vantage/elaborate-sets-and-casting-lead-to-one-evocative-photo-e5b56d48c7ab}

'We are going to destroy the Greek oligarchy system'
{http://www.channel4.com/news/we-are-going-to-destroy-the-greek-oligarchy-system}

Dry January: was it really worth all the misery?{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11365360/Dry-January-was-it-really-worth-all-the-misery.html}

Bitcoins, Gold Bugs and Money
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-21/bitcoins-gold-bugs-and-money}

What European QE Will Look Like, and What Happens if It Doesn’t Work
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/01/19/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-european-qe-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/?mod=newsreel}

The 10 greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29701767}

Deep Web Markets
{http://joel.mn/post/108657860988/deep-web-marketplaces}

Denmark cuts rates to stave off speculators

{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f241b36-9ff5-11e4-aa89-00144feab7de.html??

ftcamp=crm/email/_DATEYEARFULLNUM___DATEMONTHNUM___DATEDAYNUM__/nbe/

FirstFTEurope/product&siteedition=uk#axzz3PKDGygwK}

The Swiss currency bombshell – cause and effect

{http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2015/01/18/the-swiss-currency-bombshell-cause-and-effect/}

Not your usual oil-price decline effect
'The key point to takeaway: the drop in commodities may be
supply/demand agonistic and more reflective of a global dollar
liquidity shortage than anything else.'
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/19/2091982/not-your-usual-oil-price-decline-effect/}

Is a Climate Disaster Inevitable?
{http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/opinion/sunday/is-a-climate-disaster-inevitable.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0}

Terrorism is Not the Bigger Danger
{http://jasonkapkirwok.com/about/articles-by-jason-kapkirwok/57-terrorists-are-not-the-real-danger/}

Bankers' Bonuses, Roman Style
{http://www.historytoday.com/stephen-clarke/bankers-bonuses-roman-style}

The Secret Scam of Cheap Earbuds
{http://gizmodo.com/5617200/the-secret-scam-of-cheap-earbuds}

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
{http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids1/}

Drones are getting better faster than anyone expected
{http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/9/7519305/ces-2015-drones-intel-realsense-asctec-firefly}