Assorted links

1. The long data of European Jewish expulsion.

2. The economics of hiring paralysis; this piece goes a lot further than does a lot of sticky wage theory, noting that the two can be combined into a larger final explanation.  Nonetheless it gives real support to “risk premium” theories.

3. Columbia thievery of Nutella becomes costly.

4. Potato parties lead to misconduct at McDonald’s Japan.

5. Jeremy Stein on reaching for yield, not my view but always worth hearing from dissenters.

6. Upgrade or die.