Good morning. The stupidity of the attack in Boston makes you wonder how men ever managed to evolve this far…
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/04/terror_at_the_boston_marathon.html
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/04/tragedy-boston
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323346304578424950102614148.html

A small recap from the Chinese GDP-report released on Monday (via @went1955)

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/04/15/chinas-economy-the-first-quarter-2/?mod=WSJBlog

And here some more data on China, but from a different source…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/15/1459132/china-is-having-a-credit-fuelled-non-recovery/

Cool new IMF-app: looks like they made a big jump forward here!

Study by the New York Fed into the term premium at the time of a first rate hike

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2013/04/do-treasury-term-premia-rise-around-monetary-tightenings-.html

OH NO! It’s the Hindenburg omen again!! (and no, I am not going to explain waht nonsense it actually is)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-15/we-have-hindenburg-omen-sighting

Gold is apparently oversold. Which, by no means, is a guarantee that it will go up from here, though…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/4/15/gold-trades-at-most-oversold-levels-on-record.html

…and here’s another attempt to put the gold sell-off into perspective…

http://www.businessinsider.com/long-term-gold-chart-going-back-to-1792-2013-4

Lucky thing stocks haven’t joined the party!

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2013/04/12/chart-of-the-day-gold-stocks-no-longer-dancing-together//

For all you social media investors: here’s what marketwatch can mean for you
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/04/15/the-value-of-social-sentiment/

Hey, big spender…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/04/daily-chart-9
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