The shocking state of the corporate pensions in the US…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324338604578324831195349470.html
Interested in the academic literature on bubbles? This article is a nice starting place…
source: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp1345.pdf
I am not sure whether the data is correct, but it is an interesting attempt to quantify the Chinese shadow banking
source: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/02/27/1397152/deflating-shadow-credit-in-china/
Talk about an anomaly! I say spin-off the world!
http://falkenblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/the-spin-off-anomaly.html
Interesting to keep an eye on: the longer the maturity, the more successful inflating-away-out-of-the-debt-pile becomes…
http://www.oecd.org/daf/fin/financial-markets/oecdsovereignborrowingoutlook.htm
The link between money growth and inflation, the Friedman way
http://www.nber.org/papers/w18828.pdf?new_window=1
Interesting read about the possible impact of a European banking union
source: http://www.voxeu.org/article/winners-european-banking-union
Today’s reality…
Classic chart showing the rise of central banks. The added value of this one is the addition of the Swiss central bank
source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-26/central-banks-cannot-create-wealth-only-liquidity
And I can’t resist of featuring this one as well: the most incomprehensible chart of this week by the ECB!
source: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops/ecbocp144.pdf
Two cows. Needs no introduction
source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-26/two-cows-infographic
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