Interesting Picks

How BIS international financial statistics have helped our understanding of the crisis.

Great ECB paper, comparing Central Bank credit measures.

Consumer credit fell in the US in May.

Martin Wolf continues attack on fiscal austerity.

Emerging Markets Bonds: Up or Down. Maybe, we should ask Paul the Octopus or Mani the Parakeet.

Interesting NY Fed paper on shadow banking- thanks to CalculatedRisk for the summary.

The global or the national route in financial reform.

Comstock Partners argues debt is the problem and deflation the solution.

Warren Buffett's favorite economic indicator.

Turkish Bank for sale- interested?

I just couldn't pass an indicator on my shadow profession.

The Week in Pictures from Econompicdata.

A link I would like to dedicate to my friend Hakan.

The debt woes explained in a simple graph.

Another piece on whether we should be worried about the Baltic Dry Index.

A paper about nothing. And if you are interested, I have a Daily News column about nothing.

Yet another TIPSy puzzle.

Rabobank's sovereign vulnerability index- nothing extraordinary, but might be a good primer if you have never seen one.