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April 17, 2017

Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice

FT - China faces a tough fight to escape its debt trap - Martin Wolf 4/11

Real Estate

WSJ - Daily Shot: Households with Negative Equity 4/17

Finance

NYT - Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined - Landon Thomas Jr. 4/14

"In the last three calendar years, investors sank $823 billion into Vanguard funds, the company says. The scale of that inflow becomes clear when it is compared with the rest of the mutual fund industry - more than 4,000 firms in total. All of them combined took in just a net $97 billion during that period, Morningstar data shows. Vanguard, in other words, scooped up about 8.5 times as much money as all of its competitors."

Tax Burdens by State | Japan's GDP | Knock-on Effects of Covid-19

Visual Capitalist - Visualizing Unequal State Tax Burdens Across America - Jenna Ross 1/23/20 Economist - Japan's GDP shrinks dramatically after a tax rise and a typhoon 2/17/20 WSJ - Daily Shot: WIND & ANZ Research - China Public Transportation Daily Passenger Flows 02/17/20 WSJ - Daily Shot:

Demographics | Oil & Gas Production

FT - China's falling birth rate threatens economic growth - Sun Yu 1/19/20 FT - Italy's collapsing birth rate rings demographic alarm bells - Miles Johnson 1/16/20 WSJ - Daily Shot: eia - US Shale Production by Region 1/20/20 WSJ - Daily Shot: Gas Production by Country

Real Estate Relative to Other Assets | Sand Mining

Economist - The great global housing folly - Daily Charts 1/17/20 Economist - Asia's hunger for sand is harmful to farming and the environment 1/16/20 There has probably never been a better time to be in the sand business. The world uses nearly 50bn tons of sand

Real Estate Ghost Towns in India

WSJ - India's 'Ghost Towns' Saddle Middle Class With Debt - and Broken Dreams - Eric Bellman Half a million unfinished apartments are stuck in financial limbo in India, dashing the dreams and the spending of a middle class that was supposed to be spearheading India’s economic rise.

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Tax Burdens by State | Japan's GDP | Knock-on Effects of Covid-19

Demographics | Oil & Gas Production

Real Estate Relative to Other Assets | Sand Mining

Real Estate Ghost Towns in India