Good morning. I am pretty sure that they are not comparing total return for all indices, so the chart is certainly flawed. Interesting nevertheless
(source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-extraordinary-us-stock-market-2012-9)
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There is a lot written about Romney making a remark on 47% not paying taxes at a millionaires fund raiser???
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Chart showing that stocks have certainly been climbing the wall of worry. Some longer term perspective would have been nice though???
?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/its-just-getting-stupid
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Is it just me, or do these charts fail to impress? Sometimes they take the announcement, sometimes the anticipation, sometimes nothing happens..
?????????????????? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/whats-more-important-growth-or-policy
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This one is a little bit cleaner, with gold rallying exactly up to the point of the ending of QE.
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This one on the other hand is just plain funny: what the Swiss Franc would have traded in a parallel universe???
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Fiscal cliff: we haven???t had a good chart on that one for some times now. Plus a good read from Goldman
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Ah: a mid-quarter update on how the stock markets around the world are doing: China is the weakest link???
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Ok, I admit it: it is a dull looking table with some very old data. Pretty interesting nevertheless!
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I missed this when it was published. The top 10 of most dangerous politicians in Europe
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Sometimes you stumble across a chart that is neither complicated nor shocking, but informative nevertheless. US export growth
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