Very interesting chart on the performance of would-be inflation protecting assets. I think TIPs is up for an update though (down 8% or so this year)

http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-advisor-insights-september-17-2013-9

Cool way of showing the various problems of banks…

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

And while we are talking on banking: a BIS report!

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

Interesting bit of history on countries that breach the 105% debt level and what happens next

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-18/63-high-government-debt-episodes-and-what-they-tell-us-about-our-options-today

An absolute must-hear podcast from the BBC: and I mean the bit on strength of the UK GDP. Anybody working as an economist should listen to it. (starts at around 8 minutes!)

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreorless_20130913-1700a.mp3

Ah yes: predicting is very difficult indeed…

http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sites/default/files/content/documents/2013/08/16/CPB%20ramingen%20waren%20steeds%20te%20postief.pdf

Ok, Oktoberfests are sooo 1991…..

http://qz.com/125940/the-more-expensive-oktoberfest-beer-gets-to-more-beer-oktoberfest-goers-drink/

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/

So we are on the threshold of getting more corporate debt again?

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/09/18/1639532/i-can-haz-no-capex/

What has changed in twenty years, and what has stayed the same…

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/19/business/Standing-Still.html

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

The Financial Assets in the world

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13193.pdf

Dutch bricklayer machine hits the interweb!

http://www.gizmag.com/tiger-stone-lays-paving-bricks/16951/

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