(source: http://www.metronieuws.nl/nieuws/aftreden-beatrix-ook-groot-nieuws-in-buitenl…!GYTQFvkDgQ1Rc/)

·         http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d04aa1c4-6972-11e2-8d07-00144feab49a.html

 

And as a reminder: to celebrate the 700 hundredths edition of  Best of the Web, there will drinks on February the 8^th!

 

Potentially this is über cool, even though I so far get a lot of errors: This time is different, Reinhart & Rogoff downloadable data!

·         http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/

 

I am not entirely sure if I can trust this chart (I seem to miss some crisis’s for example), but ok: debt precedes crisis

·         http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-28/guest-post-soaring-debt-precedes-financial-crises

 

Timing is everything: stocks might be heading for a correction. Or the might not, of course…

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/bofa-first-signs-of-correction-emerge-2013-1

 

…and here is another divergence that might suggest that stock markets have run ahead of themselves

·         http://www.businessinsider.com/dislocation-between-risky-assets-and-rates-2013-1

 

Or you just simply cook the books so you can claim a new all-time high in the S&P after all

·         http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/1/28/sp-500-at-new-all-time-highs.html

 

How big the US stock market is as a percentage of the world

·         http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/1/28/us-as-a-percentage-of-world-market-cap.html   

 

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