The various shades of economic recovery in the US

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-14/four-more-years

Nice overview of where you could have best invested your money over the past ten years

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21583662-investing-luxury-items-can-yield-high-returns-risks-are-commensurate-fruits

Alternative way of looking at stock market’s rally

http://www.rickferri.com/blog/markets/market-valuation-and-asset-allocation-decisions/

In the series of cool maps: I’ll see your inverted see-land map and I’ll raise you this old Africa map

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/12/40-maps-that-explain-the-world/

The divergence in Europe part 524 (or so)…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-13/picturing-dis-united-states-europe

…and on that same subject a study in the Journal of Economic Perspectives into the weakness of the Eurozone as a currency bloc

http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.3.167

Liquidity: what it is, and what it is not…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-12/phantom-markets-part-1-why-tbac-suddenly-very-worried-about-market-liquidity

Interesting chart showing that getting the Nobel price – on average – means you have peaked. Hayek was different though (see link)…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/08/nobel-prize-economics

Unbelievable video on a robot duplicating art..

http://vimeo.com/68859229

Incredible details in the monster picture of Tokyo, which you can zoom and zoom and zoom….

http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/

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