Good morning. A bit late, but still worth to show: Bernanke drives like a Frenchman…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tom-toles-on-the-economy/2012/06/13/gJQAn9tIXe_gallery.html#photo=1

The German elections: big win for Merkel, painful loss for/of her (former) coalition partner…

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/bild-923755-547873.html

Chinese economy is regaining strength

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-22/china-pmi-beats-biggest-2-month-surge-almost-4-years

Best of last week. You know the drill.

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/09/20/best-in-economics-this-week-september-20/

Nice example of a relationship that has broken down

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-21/jpmorgan-says-buy-gold

Money is pouring into stocks at an unprecedented level. Means somebody is selling as well…

http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-advisor-insights-september-20-2013-9

Some (though not all too indepth) information on the German jobs ‘miracle’

http://www.voxeu.org/article/german-labour-reforms-unpopular-success

Old research, but as a follow up on the momentum/reversal question raised last week: a question of timing (via David Blitz)

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=687022

Retirement: the thing of the past, or the future?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/the-global-quest-to-save-retirement.html

And the schedules for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/09/schedule-for-week-of-september-22nd.html
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/09/22/week-ahead-sept-22-28/

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