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The top of today’s reading list has Gary Shilling’s discourse on the promise of the future …….. and the last article is Bloomberg’s ranking of the efficiencies of global health care systems – be patient if you start at the top and look for the U.S..
- Rapid U.S. Growth Is Missing, Not Gone Forever (A. Gary Shilling, Bloomberg) “I disagree with the long-term pessimists who, in this age of deleveraging and persistent slow growth, find increasing acceptance.”
- Do The Suicidal Have An Exit Strategy? (Roger Erickson, Mike Norman Economics) Roger Erickson is a Global Economic Intersection contributor. Actually a piece with some humor in spite of “suicidal” in the title.
- Feeling the pension pain in California (Dan Berman, Benefits Pro)
- Real GDP Per Capita: Another Perspective on the Economy (Doug Short, Advisor Perspectives, dshort.com)
Click on graph to view large image at Advisor Perspectives dshort.com.
- Maybe Mars Seeded Earth’s Life, Maybe It Didn’t (Valeb A. Scharf, Scientific American) So we might have come from Mars after all?
- Chosing the Chairman (The Economist) They make a pick. Is it Summers or Yellen?
- Germany at Risk as Emerging Markets Suffer (Alen Mattich, The Wall Street Journal)
- US 10 Year, CPI, and Annual % Change, 1791-Present (Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture) Econintersect observation: The period of the Federal Reserve (since 1913) has replaced prior volatility in inflation (and deflation) with volatility in interest rates.
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- Repression in China (Greg Mankiw’s blog) Xia Yeliang threatened with expulsion from top Chinese university for supporting free speech. See story in South China Morning Post.
- Most Efficient Health Care: Countries (Bloomberg Best [and Worst]) Hat tip to Roger Erickson.
Table has two parts. Click on upper (1-20) or lower (21-48) for larger image of that part.