Good morning. Nice one!!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-08/long-term-charts-1-american-markets-independence

But there are more of them, including bond yields, commodities and gold

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-09/long-term-charts-2-western-markets-middle-ages

Almost forgot: Best of the Web (and its regular drinks) has reached the Dutch newswires! (paywall, probably)

http://fd.nl/economie-politiek/252610-1402/twitter-trekt-econoom-uit-ivoren-toren

Solid earnings season in the US. Both on earnings surprises…

…but also on sales!

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/2/7/earning-and-revenue-beat-rates-remain-strong.html

Well-timed piece of research from the BIS on long term yields in emerging markets

https://www.bis.org/publ/work441.pdf

Interesting chart on the rise of earthquakes during the fracking

http://www.gmo.com/websitecontent/GMO_QtlyLetter_ALL_4Q2013.pdf

Interesting study: why don’t African firms create more jobs?

http://www.voxeu.org/article/why-don-t-african-firms-create-more-jobs

This is what I think is higher level of how-to-lie-with-statistics. No clue what this chart is supposed to proof.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-07/5-things-ponder-market-correction-over-or-just-starting

And the outflow from Emerging Markets equities continues….

http://www.ft.com/intl/fastft

And the schedules for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/02/schedule-for-week-of-feb-9th.html
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/02/09/the-week-ahead-feb-10-14/

Best of last week, at least the way I look at it.

https://lukasdaalder.com/2014/02/09/best-in-economics-this-week-february-7/

They should make this interactive tool, so you can look up your own country

http://www.nationaljournal.com/ranking-nations-by-the-good-life-20110602

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