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From Washington’s Blog:

Tony Schwartz notes:

Our most fundamental need as human beings is to spend and renew energy.

When I began to crash in the early afternoon after my red-eye flight, I took a 30-minute nap in the room we have set aside for that purpose in our office. The nap didn’t give me nearly enough rest to fully catch up, but it powerfully revived me for the next several hours.

At the [...]

SocGen: ‘…this will continue next week and translate into a crash, energy markets in Europe following oil with a lag.’

From SocGen:

Oil prices experienced a huge sell-off this week, plunging by $12 /b on Thursday (11% over the week). Other energy prices followed but the extent of the move was much less limited (between –0.6% and -3.5% over the week). This can be explained by a number of reasons – most of all it seems market participants were finally convinced by the economic newsflow [...]

Outrage! The US government is already spending 30% of its revenues on gross interest payments!

by ZH

When discussing central planning, as manifested by the policies of the world’s central banks, a recurring theme is the upcoming reversion to the mean: whether in economic data, in financial statistics, or, as Dylan Grice points out in his latest piece, in luck. While the mandate of every institution, whose existence depends on the perpetuation of the status quo, is to extend the amplitude [...]