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}

Nine Economics Mysteries Explained
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-15/nine-economics-mysteries-explained}

Vanguard’s record inflows prove passive is massive
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/43812508-9745-11e4-9636-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3OyHu2nQ8}

Swissie fallout

{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-15/switzerland-ambushes-the-global-economy}

It’s Amateur Hour in the Booming Chinese Stock Market
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-11/it-s-amateur-hour-in-the-booming-chinese-stock-market.html

Brent Crude Future prices

White line is Feb15 2015 future moving up in 6 monthly contracts to August 2019

No growth or a fear bubble?
{https://medium.com/@DuncanWeldon/no-growth-or-a-fear-bubble-ad8cabe84fad}

The global economy could be on the verge of a once-in-a-generation transformation
{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11334099/The-global-economy-could-be-on-the-verge-of-a-once-in-a-generation-transformation.html}

Only 1.6 percent of world's oil production at risk at $40
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/09/us-oil-supplies-idUSKBN0KI1XN20150109}

Entire oil complex slips into contango for first time since 2009
{http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/09/us-markets-oil-contango-idUSKBN0KI0VJ20150109}

The Real Story of How America Became an Economic Superpower
{http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the-real-story-of-how-america-became-an-economic-superpower/384034/}

Britain’s self-perpetuating property racket
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b82aa19a-95c4-11e4-a390-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3OK10Ze5r}

The Real Story of How America Became an Economic Superpower
{http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the-real-story-of-how-america-became-an-economic-superpower/384034/}

Why Fighting Oligarchs Is a Bad Idea
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-07/why-fighting-oligarchs-is-a-bad-idea}

Five Smart Beta Predictions for 2015
{http://www.blackrockblog.com/2015/01/07/smart-beta-predictions-2015/}

One Economic Theory to Explain Everything
{http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-08/one-economic-theory-to-explain-everything}

This Nobel Economist Spotted the Last Two Bubbles—Here’s What He Says About the Bond Boom
{http://time.com/money/3655601/shiller-psychology-bond-rally/}

Locking in Low Yields for 30 Years? Why, Yes
{http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/01/07/locking-in-low-yields-for-30-years-why-yes/}

“I Knew It All Along”
{http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/06/i-knew-it-all-along.aspx}

Despite Current Glut, Oil Producers Continue Game of Chicken
{http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/01/despite-current-glut-oil-producers-continue-game-chicken.html}

Thinking About International Bond Yields
{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/thinking-about-international-bond-yields/?_r=0}

UK pension deficits double to more than £100bn
{http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a6dcdce-95b7-11e4-a390-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3O7tMgnAK}

The economics of stuff
{http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2015/01/the-economics-of-stuff.html}

a crude bottom
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/06/2079512/of-crude-bottoms-and-rins/}


It's been fun. bye bye Bitcoin
{http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/05/2079012/who-needs-caveat-emptor-when-youve-got-bitcoin/}