Good morning. The Best Ballmer retirement chart I have seen so far

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-23/ballmers-legacy-350-billion-value-subtracted

An article on Africa and the risks of a boom-bust scenario

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-25/africa-next-major-boom-bust-cycle

In case you missed it: Jackson Hole, the full reports
http://www.kansascityfed.org/publications/research/escp/escp-2013.cfm?ft=jh082213

Best of last week: your one stop to get up to date on what you may have missed…

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/08/23/best-in-economics-this-week-august-23/

The tapering-guide to investment banks. Or the investment banking guide to tapering?

http://soberlook.com/2013/08/some-expect-political-game-of-chicken.html
Interesting patent war taking place on Graphene…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323664204578610092869213354.html

Demographics in Asia: they are going all over the place…

http://qz.com/118201/thailands-joining-japan-and-korea-as-one-of-the-old-men-of-asia/

…and one city to rule them all…. (and can you spot Detroit as well?)

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/08/second-cities-keeping-pace-with-a-booming-new-york/

Women on central bank committees: still a rare breed…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/08/daily-chart-16

And the schedule for the week to come…
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/08/schedule-for-week-of-august-25th.html

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