Good Morning. Interesting chart showing the average American was spending his/her time in 2008….
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-americans-spend-their-time-2013-11

And this one is linked to the last one: what has the internet crowded out…?

http://www.businessinsider.com/internet-is-taking-over-your-free-time-2013-11

Nuclear fusion: the way forward!
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-nuclear-fusion-arms-race-is-underway

Interesting read from Hussman on expected returns for stocks…

http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc131021.htm

The issue of bonds with covenant light structure is rising rapidly… (although that last data point is inaccurate)

http://soberlook.com/2013/11/covenant-light-loans-on-rise.html

Another bubble-indicator, or just the recovery…? More and more companies (re)turn to the stock markets…

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303843104579174282457849984

Stock market volatility hits a pre-crisis low…

http://soberlook.com/2013/11/us-stock-market-volatility-at-lowest.html

Best of last week. According to me.

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/11/01/best-in-economics-this-week-november-1/

Numerous charts on the international financial markets, from Goldman Sachs

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-03/markets-money-and-macro-61-charts

Pretty basic bit of reading on the state of the world economy by the Dallas Fed…

http://www.dallasfed.org/institute/update/2013/int1307.cfm

I have shown this before, but the message is sort of important: the lack of investments in the US economy

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/11/01/1683962/the-us-capital-stock-old-and-busted-but-why/

Forecasting is difficult. Even for financial markets…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-02/fallacies-forward-guidance

And, as always, the schedules of the week ahead…
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/11/03/the-week-ahead-nov-4-9/
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/11/schedule-for-week-of-november-3rd.html

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