Good morning. I am in search of spin-off’s. Desperately needed!!

(source: http://falkenblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/the-spin-off-anomaly.html)

“China to tighten shadow banking rules” This should/could have a big impact on the strength of the Chinese economy…

· http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/223777b6-7fec-11e2-adbd-00144feabdc0.html

A small tribute to the Monetary History of the US (Friedman & Schwartz’s). The fit between money growth and inflation

· http://www.nber.org/papers/w18828.pdf?new_window=1

This is not about economics, but about some cool pictures taken by the Hubble telescope

· http://science.time.com/2013/02/21/deep-space-photos-hubbles-greatest-hits/photo/hs-2008-14-a-print/

The ever growing US corporate pension gap nicely plotted. The stock market recovery from 2009 hasn’t helped much, by the looks of it

· http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324338604578324831195349470.html

Cool chart. That Miller should have stayed on longer: 47% in les than 18 months!

· http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/2/26/price-of-gold-under-last-four-fed-chiefs.html

And this one I like as well: China, HongKong but also Japan (!) get too little out of their currency…

· http://www.businessinsider.com/understanding-chinas-renminbi-2013-2

And there is one bank to rule them all…

· http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-26/central-banks-cannot-create-wealth-only-liquidity

The classic ‘two cows’ in carton form.

· http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-26/two-cows-infographic

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