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Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog,

There are two things that most men think they are experts at. Ask any man, and chances are, deep down, they believe they are the world’s greatest bbq’er and lover (probably in that order). Personally, I know not everyone can be the world’s greatest lover, so I hope I might be in the top quartile (I am giving myself a boost for all those too-good-looking guys who think they don’t even have to try), but god damn it! I know that I am in the top percentile when it comes to barbecuing!

Authored by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,

Back on March 10, the New York Fed’s attempt at real-time GDP forecasting predicted that the Q1 2017 estimate would be 3.2%. That would have qualified as another decent quarter, the second out of the past three and somewhat in keeping with “reflation.” As we know today, the advance figure calculated by the Commerce Department amounted to just 0.69% growth in Q1.

Two months we first suggested that OPEC may be fabricating data about its production cuts - and certainly overstating the "success" of its Vienna production cut deal - by looking at the rising Chinese oil imports, and by extension, rising oil deliveries by OPEC nations.

According to the Digital Market Outlook (DMO) by Statista, the country with the largest share of adults paying for a dating service is the United States.

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As Statista's Martin Armstrong details, at 26.4 percent, over a quarter of Americans are spending their money on trying to find love (or a sexual encounter).

Authored by Teeka Tiwari via InternationalMan.com,

Recently, I wrote about a small $100,000 trade of cheese and butter.

Why?

This one trade changed 400 years of history in just four hours.

How so? Normally, it would take 10 days to handle the paperwork. But this trade concluded in less than four hours.

The solution: a blockchain platform that streamlined the entire process.

While the trade was small, it was big for the $7 trillion trade finance industry.