The future of social security, the recovery in wealth, outsized severance pay is back, the sexiest cars of the century (without the Citroën DS????!! Who are they kiddin?!). Follow the institutional money, financial regulation made simple, Abeconomics starting to have some traction, Robocars, the pesky ECB and other remarkable stories from the web.

• Social Security Isn’t a Basket Case – Businessweek
• Feeling Like Gatsby? Net Worth Hits Another Record – Businessweek
• Jumbo Severance Packages for Top CEOs Are Growing – Businessweek
• Sexiest Cars Of The Past Century – Business Insider
• Follow Big Institutional Money Flow With Stocks On The Move – Investors.com
• Everything the IMF wanted to know about financial regulation and wasn’t afraid to ask | vox
• Japan current account surplus doubles as income gains, exports rise – Yahoo! Finance
• Robocars will take us out of driver’s seat – Telegraph
• Man who set up camera to catch a ghost instead catches girlfriend’s affair with his 16-year-old son – Telegraph
• Is 100pc reserve banking the solution to all our problems? – Telegraph
• Hard-line ECB washes hands of jobless crisis, sees no ‘Japanese’ deflation – Telegraph
• Another Take on the Top Breakthroughs to Watch | MIT Technology Review