Good morning. And believe me, I am not laughing here…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-27/dummies-guide-understanding-middle-east

Interesting read trying to explain why computers are hollowing out the middle classes (via +Maddy Tungsten)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/how-technology-wrecks-the-middle-class/

Nice chart on the breakdown of ownership of US debt….

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.nl/2013/08/summer-2013-who-really-owns-us-national.html

Call me cynical, but… hahaha! The rise of the ‘high impact’ oil discoveries…

www.qz.com/118825/to-bump-up-your-share-price-just-call-your-oil-find-a-giant-one

For those interesting in the way Dutch pension funds have invested their money (in Dutch)

http://www.dnb.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht-en-archief/dnbulletin-2013/dnb295699.jsp#

If you make history short enough, any market move can be presented like an outlier… Show me this chart from 1970, please?

http://soberlook.com/2013/08/putting-recent-treasury-losses-in.html

Nice chart: arrows meet jobs and earnings… And no, earnings are not stable,they are just for 2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/heres-where-middle-class-jobs-are-vanishing-the-fastest/2013/08/27/01edc11a-0f2d-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_blog.html?wprss=rss_ezra-klein

Missed this one last week: study from the IMF into the driving factors behind the boom and bust in construction spending in Europe

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13181.pdf

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