Good morning. Grexit is sooo 2012: Texit is the latest thing!!! (via Jan Sytze Mosselaar)

http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-how-americans-feel-about-the-states-2013-8

There is one country bugging the trend of higher yields…
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http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/8/21/sovereign-10-year-yields.html

The latest worry:too much leverage in Asia….

http://www.businessinsider.com/two-charts-that-should-make-you-concerned-about-asian-debt-2013-8

…even the FT is picking up on the subject….

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/af96c30a-095d-11e3-8b32-00144feabdc0.html

A lot of charts and info on shale gas. In case you sort of missed out on the subject…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/08/21/1594492/is-the-shale-forecast-curve-hyperbolic-or-exponential/

Nice one! Chart taken from an IMF study showing almost 500 years of gold volatility (via @wmiddelkoop)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13180.pdf

Old news, still relevant, if not shocking: the lack of income growth for median US households

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/politics/us-median-income-rises-but-is-still-6-below-its-2007-peak.html

This chart is somewhat misleading: the grey bars do not show the minimum and maximum deviations for the months, but a measure of volatility

http://www.businessinsider.com/average-monthly-returns-since-1929-2013-8

I am all for apocalyptic warnings on rising sea-levels, but all the blue bits in Russia (or the US) seem illogical

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-21/guest-post-rising-seas-could-cause-1-trillion-damage-year-2050

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