Brexit, Reformation
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/06/30/2168125/brexit-reformation-edition/

maybe the only upside is trump won't get in
http://www.businessinsider.com/leave-voters-are-not-stupid-2016-6

IT WAS a troubling exchange. On live television Faisal Islam, the political editor of SkyNews, was recounting a conversation with a pro-Brexit Conservative MP. “I said to him: ‘Where’s the plan? Can we see the Brexit plan now?’ [The MP replied:] ‘There is no plan. The Leave campaign don’t have a post-Brexit plan…Number 10 should have had a plan.’” The camera cut to Anna Botting, the anchor, horror chasing across her face. For a couple of seconds they were both silent, as the point sunk in. “Don’t know what to say to that, actually,” she replied, looking down at the desk. Then she cut to a commercial break.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2016/06/anarchy-uk



The Frightening Global Rise of Agnotology
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-27/culturally-constructed-ignorance-wins-the-day

death denial mechanisms
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/death-researcher-sheldon-solomon-on-the-fear-of-mortality-a-1098316.html

Low value work
https://hbr.org/2016/06/stop-doing-low-value-work

Brexit and democracy
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/brexit-and-democracy.html

All You Need To Know About the UK Referendum
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-brexit-referendum-in-the-uk-a-1097629.html

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/comment-on-brexit-it-s-smarter-to-stay-a-1096929.html


The centre-left’s obsession with “electability” – a word that has become a whine of over-entitled narcissists.
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/

Krugman: Notes on Brexit

{http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/notes-on-brexit/?_r=1}

How Intel makes a chip

{http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-09/how-intel-makes-a-chip}

all about the 1%
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/zaha-hadid-architecture-gentrification-design-housing-gehry-urbanism/

Yuan short
{http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-02/china-biggest-shortever}

rps beaten
http://boingboing.net/2016/05/31/how-to-outguess-multiple-choic.html


My worries about Singapore
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/06/my-worries-about-singapore.html

Crashes, Terrorists, Sharks – Oh, My!
http://ritholtz.com/2016/06/crashes-terrorists-sharks-oh-my-2/

How Reproducible is Alpha?

http://ritholtz.com/2016/05/how-reproducible-is-alpha/

Mt. Gox and the mother of all short squeezes

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/05/20/2162507/mt-gox-and-the-mother-of-all-short-squeezes/

http://boingboing.net/2016/05/10/clever-non-lethal-mousetrap-ma.html



Everything is fine

That’s why this is called hyperbolic discounting
MIT Courses
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#economics

Some thoughts on the end of economic growth
http://timothyblee.com/2016/05/07/some-thoughts-on-the-end-of-economic-growth/

Solar
3 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh)http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2016/05/solar-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels-in-middle-east/

Professor Fama: How Markets Really Work
{http://ritholtz.com/2016/05/professor-fama-how-markets-really-work/}

Bill Sharpe, The Arithmetic of Active Management

'In aggregate active investors hold the market portfolio, so if some skilled active investors overweight an undervalued stock, other active investors must underweight it. This means that, before fees and expenses, trading is a zero sum game. Ignoring costs, the gains of the skilled investors are, dollar for dollar, at the expense of other investors.'
{https://www.dimensional.com/famafrench/essays/why-active-investing-is-a-negative-sum-game.aspx}

Stuck on repeat: why we love repetition in music
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/29/why-we-love-repetition-in-music-tom-service

Leicester City: Dirty Dozen or Harvard Case Study?
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-26/leicester-city-dirty-dozen-or-harvard-case-study

The Greatest Poet Alive
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/the-greatest-poet-alive/476376/

Singapore
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/21/story-cities-singapore-carefully-planned-lee-kuan-yew

Why Haven’t Bankers Been Punished? Just Read These Insider SEC Emails
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-havent-bankers-been-punished-just-read-these-insider-sec-emails

Offshore in central London: the curious case of 29 Harley Street
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/19/offshore-central-london-curious-case-29-harley-street

Top ten trends in Fintech
http://www.futuresmag.com/2016/04/15/top-10-trends-fintech

What the great degree rip-off means for graduates: low pay and high debt
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/19/degree-graduates-low-pay-high-debt-students

good points against a 'Brexit'
https://medium.com/@DuncanWeldon/brexit-the-trade-deficit-is-not-a-source-of-strength-345f88026723#.6gjmupa5s

The whole point of the debate at the moment is that we know — at least in the short term — what Remain looks like, we don’t know what Leave looks like. That creates the kind of uncertainty which delays investment decisions and which would get worse after a Leave vote as we entered into months or years of talks.

And it’s this uncertainty which takes me to my biggest problem with the “the trade deficit is a strength” argument. It ignores the elephant in the room which the large UK’s current account deficit 

That to me, is the best economic argument against a Leave vote — why trigger an event that could lead to a reassessment of UK risks by global investors when you are “dependent to the kindness of strangers” for funding?