Morning Journal--Ron Paul on tax reform

Economics

   This Week’s Data

   Other

            An excellent review of Thomas Piketty’s book and economic hypothesis by Larry Summers (medium/long):

            http://www.democracyjournal.org/32/the-inequality-puzzle.php?page=all

            Scott Gannis on the risk of deflation (medium):

            http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2014/05/forget-about-deflation-risk.html

            Citigroup’s economic surprise indices (short):

            http://pragcap.com/socgen-beware-the-global-macro-slowdown

            The banksters are still at it (medium):

            http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/20/us-eu-banks-eurorigging-idUSBREA4J08W20140520

            Thoughts on easy money and inflation from Ed Yardini (short):

            http://blog.yardeni.com/2014/05/tracking-global-inflation-excerpt.html

Politics

  Domestic

Ron Paul on tax reform (medium and today’s must read):

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-19/ron-paul-warns-tax-reform-useless-without-spending-reform

A thought on student debt (short):

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2014/05/root-cause.html

Tuesday morning humor (4 minute video):

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-videos/476/People-Are-Saying-This-Is-The-Best-Joke-Ever-Told

  International

            How long can the euro hold together? (medium):

            http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/18/eurozone-problems-european-elections