In the sister blog and on Twitter during July and August 2016

Posting was light in last two months.

The following post appeared on the sister blog (on Computing).

Tweets during July and August (other than blog post tweets):

30 August 2016
- FT story about catching corruption in Kenya by tracking Mpesa. It is as if they took a bribe by cheque. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1a734368-6911-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c.html
25 August 2016
- Nice description of “noise trading”: . “They bring him joy, and joy is rarer and more precious than alpha.” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-24/trading-teens-and-bank-blockchains
24 August 2016:
- Posen in yesterday's FT on how Swiss politics allows more negative interest rates than Japanese/German politics. http://on.ft.com/2bbM9pS
10 August 2016
- Brexit makes UK more European. UK government bonds have joined Europe's negative interest rate club.
21 July 2016
- Banks dumping unshredded client data on the street in Singapore. http://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/mas-probes-case-of-uobs-unshredded-client-data
19 July 2016
- India appears to be an outlier in terms of its steep and steepening yield curve http://econbrowser.com/archives/2016/07/decomposing-changes-in-term-spreads-around-the-world
14 July 2016
- Germany/EU says Italy can't bail out its banks. If a big German bank needs bailout will Italy play tit-for-tat? (An Italian heads ECB!)
5 July 2016
- Excellent account of the super-Lehman bankruptcy of 150 years ago (Overend Gurney) http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2016/q2/q2pre.pdf (h/t FTAlphaville)

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