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Danielle was a guest with Jim Goddard on the Talk Digital Network talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets.  You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.

As discussed in the segment, here is the chart of South Korean exports –canary-in-the-coal-mine for global demand (in black)–compared with global earnings per share (blue) since 1992. The decline in exports year to date is a ominous sign for corporate earnings over coming months.

Also here is Cory Venable’s updated chart of the Canadian dollar in US terms since it peaked out in 2011.  Further loonie weakness seems likely over coming weeks.

Happy World Meat Free Week, see more here.

So many encouraging stories of people cutting back on animal intake and noting marked improvements in their health and vitality.  Here is one: meet the man who founded the first plant-based soccer team.

The archetypal pie and a pint culture of British football was challenged back in 2010 when successful eco entrepreneur, Dale Vince, bought Forest Green Rovers and soon afterwards made the decision to turn the league two football club into the first ever fully vegan club in the world. Meanwhile Rovers fan, Chris Latham was about to experience his own epiphany – he began thinking about his own diet and the impact it could have on himself and the planet. Other Rovers fans have followed suit and become vegetarian since the club took meat off the menu, which Vince is delighted about: “They’ve told us it’s changed their lives,” he says. Here is a direct video link.

Always worth listening to Dr Kahneman on the foibles of human thinking and behavior, especially around money and markets and especially when he is speaking to a room of would-be-expert-investors at the recent CFA Institute Annual Conference.  Enjoy.

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman…delivered a captivating mini seminar on some of the key ideas that have driven his scholarship, exploring intuition, expertise, bias, noise, and how optimism and overconfidence simultaneously drive and undermine the capitalist system, at the 71st CFA Institute Annual Conference in Hong Kong.

Here is a direct video link.