Good morning. Yep. Where is this going…?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/your-money/trying-to-outguess-the-unpredictable.html?_r=0

Nice one: not only the returns of other assets, but also the volatility

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/08/forget-gold-classic-cars-are-the-new-hot-investment/

Interesting chart: volatility in the US Treasury market has been most outspoken in the 5-7 year segment…

http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2013/09/qe-tapering-mbs-volatility-and-convexity-hedging-via-treasuries.html

…and sticking with bonds: Italian yields are now higher than Spanish yields

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-10/italy-riskier-spain-first-time-18-months

It has been a while since I last showed this chart of the US labour market…

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-when-total-payrolls-will-finally-exceed-their-pre-recession-peak-2013-9

Interesting interactive chart on the development of the US labour market (via http://www.ritholtz.com/)

http://graphics.wsj.com/market-shifts/#i=labor

Some words of warning on the US mortgage market….

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-09/jpmorgan-warns-increasing-rates-have-reduced-remaining-refinance-opportunity-more-50

I am not sure how much value should be attached to the underlying data, but still: wealth all the way back to 1870 (via @went1955)

http://emlab.berkeley.edu/~webfac/cromer/zucman.pdf

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