Good morning! I thinks the biggest surprise on this cover is that they have found a poet to make some poems on the subject…

(source: http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/live-boston-review-forum-debt-relief)

 

And the winners are… The new leaders of China have been announced at last

·         http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8de22556-2eca-11e2-8bb3-00144feabdc0.html

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/china-politburo-standing-committee-2012-11

 

Brilliant chart showing the problems with forecasting Greek GDP. Interesting to see that how deeper we drop, we still end up at zero… (there is an English version on zerohedge)

·         http://www.ftm.nl/original/ruzie-in-de-troika.aspx

 

…which is definitely not the case when we look at employment…

·         http://mainlymacro.blogspot.nl/2012/11/greece-continuing-disastrous-squeeze.html

 

Where has the magic gone?? Positive macroeconomic surprises fail to lift stocks…

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/albert-edwards-explains-why-markets-have-been-falling-2012-11

 

…ahhhh, maybe this is part of the answer: Europe…

·         http://soberlook.com/2012/11/eu-us-economic-surprise-indices-diverge.html

 

I am not sure whether this is correct, but it looks interesting: a chart trying to show where the growth difference between US and UK has come from

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-us-versus-uk-2012-11

 

Some charts on corporate bonds: is it a bubble or not?

·         http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-14/four-charts-corporate-bond-managers-fear-most

 

Looking for poverty numbers from the US? Look no further!

·         http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/11/the-new-poverty-measure-is-out-and-its-grim.html

 

I know, I know: fiscal cliff, seen it, done it (almost). But this chart is worth it

·         http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-14/chart-day-fiscal-cliff-rest-us

 

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