Good Morning. And now for the weather forecast…
http://qz.com/134870/radar-images-three-powerful-storms-phailin-nari-and-wipha-menace-asia-at-the-same-time/

And talking of natural disasters: it is pretty clear that natural disasters are on the rise, worldwide

http://www.economist.com/news/economic-and-financial-indicators/21587833-natural-disasters

Columbus Day! Thanks to the 2008 outlier, the average return is pretty ok: the median is hardly impressive

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/10/11/columbus-day-market-returns.html

Just saying: “Dutch budget deal offers lessons to the US” (from @mattsteinglass)
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/208020ae-3404-11e3-8f1d-00144feab7de.html

Best of last week, according to me

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/10/11/best-in-economics-this-week-october-11/

Nice breakdown of US Treasury ownership

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/10/230944425/everyone-the-u-s-government-owes-money-to-in-one-graph

Never hear of this one before: the Doomsday Clock…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-13/which-doomsday-clock-strikes-first-nuclear-armageddon-or-debt-ceiling-breach

Interesting: the rise of apple and tablets has lead to a relative, but hardly to an absolute decline in PC shipments

http://www.asymco.com/2013/10/10/the-five-year-plan/ (via Barry Ritzholt)

A number of colorful charts on credit and debt

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-11/life-and-death-massive-debt-bubble-seven-charts

“The Debt Limit: History and Recent Increases”
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31967.pdf

Changes in growth forecasts by the IMF

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/10/11/chart-of-the-week-the-imf-changes-the-em-tune/

And the schedules of the week ahead
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/10/schedule-for-week-of-october-13th.html
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/10/13/week-ahead-oct-14-20/

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