IMF took another look at the Greece bailout and the conclusions are not very nice…
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13156.pdf
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/greek-regrets/ (comment by Krugman)
Sentiment on Emerging markets has turned sour as currencies decline…
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-end-of-the-bull-market-in-emerging-markets-2013-5
…the growth outlook is weakening…
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/06/focus-2
…while investors have been fleeing the region…
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/06/07/snap-em-fund-flows-a-painful-correction/
Despite all the QE’s, inflation has yet to raise its ugly head….
http://soberlook.com/2013/05/pce-core-inflation-lowest-on-record.html
…and speaking of QE, the BIS has taken a look at the impact of QE on financial markets…
http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1306.pdf
US bonds compared to US equities: bonds are bigger
http://www.learnbonds.com/how-big-is-the-bond-market/
With the unrest in Turkey on the rise, this map on tweets in Turkish is interesting
http://themonkeycage.org/2013/06/03/twitter-and-the-turkish-protests-post-weekend-update/
A number of other interesting maps can be found here…
Net wealth in the world
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-04/debt-nations
Cool chart showing the world’s greenhouse gasses by source and sector
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/31/this-giant-chart-shows-where-all-our-greenhouse-gases-come-from/
40 pictures on the European flooding…
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/06/flooding_in_europe.html
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