Good morning. The link between tipping and corruption. If only the Greeks hadn’t been such a good tippers…

·         http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/05/study-countries-with-more-tipping-are-more-corrupt/

 

Nice overview from Towers Watson on the 300 largest pension funds in the world

·         http://www.towerswatson.com/assets/pdf/7857/PI300_2011.pdf

 

Rumors, rumors, rumors: today is the day that we will finally get some facts from the ECB: unlimited AND sterilized, no cap and what about seniority?

·         http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1966ebe8-f77b-11e1-ba54-00144feabdc0.html

·         http://www.cnbc.com//id/48911874

·         http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/09/05/1147711/more-questions-pre-draghi/

 

Ah, the competitive list for 2012 has been released… (chart via @mathijsbouman)

https://p.twimg.com/A2B4SKqCcAEvPoP.jpg:large 

·         http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/05/us-competitiveness-idUSBRE8840D020120905 

 

The history of gasoline prices in the US: pretty close to a new high…

…and this one, from the same source is also interesting: where has inflation come from over the past 12 years?

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/weekly-gas-prices-2012-9

 

Nice chart showing what you investments should be yielding if you want to retire by 65

·         http://www.zerohedge.com/news/retirement-reality-full-frontal-why-every-30-year-old-must-risk-it-all-be-able-retire

 

Specially for the Dutch readers out there: CBS on the mortgage debt in the Netherlands. I was sort of shocked by this chart…

·         http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/EC5E7E8A-8A14-4A51-BC57-8F2464BEAEC0/0/HypotheekschuldinNederland.pdf

 

Yeah, yeah: we get the message: gold is what we should be buying for September…

·         http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/9/5/gold-glitters-in-september.html

 

…even though silver and platinum are not doing so bad either…

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·         http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2012/9/5/bespokes-commodity-snapshot.html

 

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