Good morning. Nice one: what went wrong with which bank. Too simple, of course (why is Fortis not in the middle?), but still…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-13/why-banks-failed

Ok, the initial reaction from the stock market to the news that Summers has withdrawn from the Fed Chairman’s race looks like this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/futures-surge-after-summers-2013-9
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a78aea30-1e6e-11e3-85e0-00144feab7de.html

On the decline of the US participation rate and why it may be not as temporary as some believe

http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2013/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-the-us-unemployment-statistics/

All you probably never going to be needing with respect to the German elections…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-13/german-federal-election-full-infographic

Peak oil? Peak population, you mean! And what does that mean for investing…
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/09/13/1633312/peak-population-investing/

The best of last week. Or at least, what I think was the best of last week…

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/09/13/best-in-economics-this-week-september-13/

The only 5-year-post-Lehman-chart I will show today

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-13/best-and-worst-performing-assets-lehman-are

High Frequency Trading ‘boosting’ the number of quotes send to the trading floor each second…

Shiller PE, but this time for a number of countries and not just the US. US stocks are twice that of Dutch stocks, according to these numbers…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/09/10-sunday-reads-45/

BIS Quarterly with a special report on banking!

http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1309e.pdf

Interesting fact: the life expectancy was below 30 in the late 1800’s… Article on improving living standards in the Industrial Revolution

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/economic-history-0

Another week of huge retail selling of US bonds…

http://www.businessinsider.com/bofas-retail-clients-flee-from-bonds-2013-9

Article on the Fed communication and voting. By the Fed.

http://www.dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2013/el1308.cfm

And the week ahead: what to expect?
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/09/schedule-for-week-of-september-15th.html
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/09/15/week-ahead-sep-15-20/

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