Good morning. Number of deaths and Google attention do not always match when it comes to war…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/08/daily-chart-6

The Bank of Canada has produced a working paper on crypto-currencies!

http://www.digitopoly.org/2014/08/11/competition-amongst-cryptocurrencies-and-exchanges/

The US labour market is in full recovery mode…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/8/12/jolts-report-shows-more-labor-market-strength.html

And this is the last high yield chart that I will show…

http://www.businessinsider.com/high-yield-fund-outflows-a-6-sigma-event-2014-8

Bankruptcies in the US are heading for the lowest number since 1998

http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2014/08/bankruptcy-filings-will-be-the-lowest-since-1995-here-is-a-reason-why.html

Wow! Owning a car in New York City was quite a risky business back in the 90s…

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/upshot/heres-why-stealing-cars-went-out-of-fashion.html

Seems logical

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-12/frances-recovery-1-hard-believe-chart

I am not sure whether the scale is correct, but the idea fits

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-12/us-welfare-state-summarized-1-cartoon

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