http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/03/world-is-in-a-recession-go-about-your-business-as-usual/ 

Martin Wolf in today’s FT: “If Cameron’s plan is working, what does failure look like?

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bf19ad60-8681-11e2-b907-00144feabdc0.html

 

Imagine: if you had picked the winners each year, your $ 100 investment in 2003 would have be worth close to $23.000 in 2012…*

http://www.businessinsider.com/usfunds-em-periodic-table-2013-3

* ignoring currency fluctuations and transaction costs…

 

Interesting study by the IMF on European export performance (via @went1955).

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp1362.pdf

 

Another day, another Nikkei rally. But it still needs to go a long way before it reaches its old peak…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-07/who-absent-now-record-high-party

 

“Investors are looking for ways to profit from global warming”

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-07/investors-seek-ways-to-profit-from-global-warming

 

This is a that you should see regularly, plotting the US household assets versus their liabilities

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-07/us-households-have-never-been-more-reliant-stock-market-their-net-worth

 

Interesting chart on housing bubbles outside the US (although I am a bit puzzled by the 100 mark)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-07/guest-post-unpopped-housing-bubbles-abound

 

Don’t get me wrong, I have got nothing against the ECB, but the second line really made me smile… (from a study on Bank Leverage Cycles)

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1524.pdf

 

Keeping in mind that this is based on China data (=faulty at best), this chart is pretty interesting

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/03/07/china-rising-wages-will-drive-economic-change-under-new-leadership

 

Once a major market mover, now retired to the back-end of the #botw: stress results of US banks

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/03/07/1414862/stress-test-results-out-suspense-not-over-yet/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/07/us-usa-banks-stresstests-idUSBRE9261AZ20130307

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21573124-banks-get-their-annual-health-check-regulators-de-stressing

 

Interesting chart once again, from the people of the Economist. But why are the Dutch being left out?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/03/daily-chart-3

 

Ah, yes an infographic: we haven’t had one of those for a long time!

http://www.accounting-degree.org/scandals/

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/03/worst-corp-scandals/

 

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