Good Morning. Earnings growth has been near absent: stock gains have been all about stocks getting more expensive

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-important-charts-in-the-world-q4-2013-10#toby-nangle-threadneedle-investments-11

Interesting way of presenting the growth of China: by showing the relative decline of the rest

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-10/incredible-shrinking-world-relative-china

Study by the Dutch Central Bank into the depressed level of consumer confidence and how that is linked to ‘Trust’: the coverage ratio of pensions rule!

http://www.dnb.nl/binaries/Working%20Paper%20394_tcm46-296775.pdf

The Fed Dove-Hawk scale….

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-10/look-feds-nest-2014-here-are-next-years-voting-hawks-and-doves

How to lie with statistics: comparing these two charts ignores the fact that Russia is poorer overall… This is Russia…

…and this the US….

http://www.businessinsider.com/putting-russias-unparalleled-wealth-disparity-in-perspective-2013-10

Another nice one: US oil independency is on the rise

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-important-charts-in-the-world-q4-2013-10#joshua-demasi-loomis-sayles-7

This sort of questions how strong the European growth rebound is going to be…

http://qz.com/134227/euro-zone-banks-may-need-another-fix-of-emergency-funds-will-the-ecb-oblige/

What happened to The Netherlands…? We are the top three in this chart, easily!

http://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2013/10/10/italy-the-good-the-bad-and-the-politicians/

And The Economist has a special report on the World Economy…

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21587382-globalisation-depends-technology-and-politics-railroads-and-hegemons

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