Good morning. Specially for all you commuters out there: a couple of horrible commuting pictures (via Jan Sytze Mosselaar)

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-worlds-worst-commutes-2013-8

I admit it: I am a sucker for charts with a long history. And I like the Panic of 1857. And 1873. And 1893. And 1907…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-28/guest-post-history-real-gdp-population-growth

Interesting article on the poor performance of the Canadian economy with respect to productivity: zero ‘innovation’ in 32 years..?!?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/canadian-productivity-even-worse-than-previously-thought/article13988435/

A number of Martin Luther King related links. The unemployment rate of blacks is still twice that of whites in the US . And nine more of these charts…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/28/these-seven-charts-show-the-black-white-economic-gap-hasnt-budged-in-50-years/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd

…and a couple more over here…

http://www.businessinsider.com/we-still-have-a-long-way-to-go-before-mlks-dream-is-realized-2013-8

Ok, and one to compensate. Even though he is not 100% black, of course

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/28/ten-charts-show-how-the-u-s-has-changed-for-the-better-since-mlks-march/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd

And the story behind “I have a dream” speech of King…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/opinion/mahalia-jackson-and-kings-rhetorical-improvisation.html?

The options Emerging Markets have to stop their currencies from falling…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-28/why-emerging-market-fx-has-further-fall

Timing is of course everything, but if you had a house in the US at the right moment and the right place, you could have been rich by now….

A!! A new all time high for gold!!! In Indian Rupees, that is!!!!!!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-28/india-central-bank-scrambles-currency-collapse-fallout-gives-usd-oil-companies-every

In case you are still looking on more war info…

http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-08-27/forces-in-place-to-strike-syria.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324591204579038200346211022.html

…and if the past is of any guidance, than it might be in these charts…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-28/war-effect

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