Five books on Brexit, nice consolidation
http://fivebooks.com/interview/jonathan-portes-brexit/

It is almost a truism, certainly among economists, that the big structural problems in the UK—to do with the labour market position of the low-skilled, the education system and the housing market—actually have little or nothing to do with the UK’s membership of the EU one way or the other. 

If Hannan upsets you , here's some 'Hannan fodder'
http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2017/03/calum-kerr-governing-digital-economy

15. Has anyone ever managed to read a tweet by Hannan beginning with the words “a reminder” without getting an overwhelming urge to do unspeakable things to an inanimate object, just to get rid of their rage?

HFT as an insight into where fintech is going

Markets are cyclical, Darwinian and subject to diminishing returns. Nothing new in that observation. But people do seem to forget it all the time https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/03/28/2186482/hft-as-an-insight-into-where-fintech-is-going/

“You see the world not as it is, but as you are.”

The Best Free Investing Tools on the Web
Data for back testing and investment links
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2017/03/the-best-free-investing-tools-on-the-internet/

Much of What We Think We Know Is Wrong
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eight-myths-about-migration-and-refugees-explained-a-1138053.html

Some handy economic terms
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-05/5-economics-terms-we-all-should-use

So there are five econ terms I think should enter our everyday vocabulary. As long as this doesn’t happen endogenously, the marginal increase in the aggregate present discounted value of our public discourse would have a high conditional probability of being positive!

Stop Reading Lists of Things Successful People Do
BS on peoples stories and success
https://hbr.org/2017/03/stop-reading-lists-of-things-successful-people-do





Some Lessons For Living From Older Generations
"No one – not a single person out of a thousand – said that to be happy you should try to work as hard as you can to make money to buy the things you want."

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2017/03/some-lessons-for-living/

ThisThis Article Won’t Change Your Mind
The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs Article Won’t Change Your Mind

The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/this-article-wont-change-your-mind/519093/

The problem with facts
Tim Harford on how today’s politicians deal with inconvenient truths

Molière once wrote: “A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”

https://www.ft.com/content/eef2e2f8-0383-11e7-ace0-1ce02ef0def9

Created by London-based data visualisation studio Kiln and the UCL Energy Institute

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blood stock - changing ideas about our evolution
https://mosaicscience.com/story/ancient-human-evolution-neanderthal-genetics

Data firms

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon

http://www.meltingasphalt.com/crony-beliefs/

Awesome, highly curated directory of personal newsletters.(discover.getrevue.co)

Unlearning descriptive statistics

http://debrouwere.org/2017/02/01/unlearning-descriptive-statistics/

Probably the most important video on youtube

Why it’s plain stupid to buy a house in India

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/manu-rishi-guptha/why-its-plain-stupid-to-buy-a-house-in-india/?curator=alphaideas&utm_source=alphaideas

homelet.co.uk/homelet-rental-index

How alternative facts rewrite history

https://www.ft.com/content/3062d082-e3da-11e6-8405-9e5580d6e5fb

There is no progress in isolation :(

some thoughts to consider on trade deals

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/01/trump-wants-renegotiate-even-worse-trade-deal-australia/

 ...some light relief

How to keep your secret activist Twitter account a secret

GIF GEN

Game on in UK and the States💩

like all cubs , it takes time to climb

 AUSFTA
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/01/trump-wants-renegotiate-even-worse-trade-deal-australia/

Top 10 Free Alternatives to Expensive Software

Android Irig

{https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ikmultimediaus.android.irigrecorder&hl=en_GB}

Peter's Choice
I asked my student why he voted for Trump. The answer was thoughtful, smart, and terrifying.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/donald-trump-2016-election-oklahoma-working-class

A period of national isolation. worked for Japan's Sakoku

{http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/01/17/extreme-brexit-this-was-may-s-last-moment-of-control}

We’ve Been Hacking Elections for More Than a Century
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/14/weve-been-hacking-elections-for-more-than-century.html