Good morning. If the South Europe imports less from Germany, Germans react by investing less (IMF)…
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13255.pdf

…but how is the South supposed to keep buying things with unemployment moving like this…?

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/08/unemployment-declines-but-not-everywhere/

If rising credit to the private sector is an early warning for the next crisis, watch out for them red countries…

http://www.zerohedge.com/node/477285

A bit of history. Still the same claim could be made back in 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989…..

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-06/italian-debt-gdp-worst-mussolini

A number of charge on the Chinese economy and the leverage boom

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-06/chinas-credit-crisis-charts

The demise in homeownership in the US…

http://www.economist.com/news/economic-and-financial-indicators/21582546-us-housing

Ah well, for a good laugh, check out these 10 Economic Hipster indicators from the Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/hipster-economic-indicators-2013-8

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