Good morning. Cool chart on the longer term growth rates around the world

www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/9/10/long-term-economic-growth.html

Which closely related to this chart as well…

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-rise-and-fall-of-modern-empires-2014-9

And this one is probably from the same report. Back in ‘01 (0001, that is), when the Roman Empire sneezed, everyone got a cold…

http://www.businessinsider.com/world-economy-year-1-2014-9

A bit of perspective on stock markets: not all have gone up like the US’s

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/markets-recovered-financial-crisis/

On bullish analysts… (with my take on it in the Dutch financial daily Financieele Dagblad)

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/09/dilbert-beat-estimates/
http://fd.nl/beurs/columns/lukas-daalder/573389-1409/roze-brillen

A bit of reading on Emerging Asia by the BIS

http://www.bis.org/publ/work463.pdf

Nice overview of the size of Facebook

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/09/facebook-valuation-tops-200-billion/

Info and charts on Iron by Goldman

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-10/goldman-declares-end-iron-age

For the record…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-10/meet-new-leadership-europe-presenting-juncker-commission

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