Good morning! Edition number 750!! No drinks (sorry!), no guests (sorry!) but I did prepare a bit of a 150-lookback…
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/12/11/infograph-of-the-year-correlation-and-causation/

 

From BotW number 150 (august 2010):

“Three Shale Gas firms for sale.” On how the early movers started to cash in, back in ‘10… As far as I can see, none of the companies actually got sold.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704476104575439474058698634.html
https://lukasdaalder.com/2010/08/20/best-links-of-the-web10-08-20-nr-150/

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From BotW number 300 (april 2011):

“Japan quake’s economic impact worse than first feared.” The Nikkei closed at 9555 and USDJPY at 83.8 that day. Since then, the Nikkei has risen more than 40%, while the yen has dropped 19%
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-japan-economy-idUSTRE73B0O320110412
https://lukasdaalder.com/2011/04/12/best-links-of-the-web11-04-12-nr-300/

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From BotW number 450 (december 2011):

“China’s deserted fake Disneyland.” This was the nicest looking article on the Chinese real estate problems.

http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2011/12/12/chinas-deserted-fake-disneyland/
https://lukasdaalder.com/2011/12/13/best-links-of-the-web11-12-13-nr-450/

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From BotW number 600 (august 2012):

You think the S&P500 reached a new all-time high this week? Wrong! It did so in August of last year, or at least if you take dividends (and not eggs) into account

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/08/13/dividends-matter-part-754/
https://lukasdaalder.com/2012/08/15/best-links-of-the-web-12-08-15-nr-600-switchi/

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And now, on to number 750! The IMF stability report. With a lot of nice information, like this

http://www.imf.org/External/Pubs/FT/GFSR/2013/01/pdf/text.pdf

 

…and this (about there being no more risks anywhere)…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-11/there-no-risk-left-anywhere

 

Yesterday’s bitcoin crash (still ongoing this morning) put into market perspective… Why they compare bitcoin to stocks is a bit strange though

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-crash-biggest-market-declines-2013-4

 

For what it is worth: the S&P500 is above the red line (=overbought)…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/4/11/extreme-overbought-territory.html

 

Cool chart, stupidest headline ever. China apparently never was the low-cost producer in Asia…

Another cool chart showing the taxes paid for various countries

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-11/tax-hell-tax-haven

 

Beautiful chart on the deadly cocktail pigs, birds and humans can come up with… (via @leonmcw)

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/which-flu-virus/

 

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