Good Morning. What each country in the world excels in…

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2013/10/Doghouse%20Maps%20J_0.jpg

Germany rules the waves….

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/10/long-term-unemployed/

Outlook for 2014. As simple as that!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-22/theres-always-next-year

Article 4 consultation by the IMF on Brazil!

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2013/cr13312.pdf

The Dallas Fed wonders whether Asia is doing a 1997 rerun…

http://www.dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2013/el1309.cfm

Nice overview of all the settlements and penalties in the US financial system…

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21588386-payback-time-subprime

Happy times! Negative home equity is rapidly getting extinct in the US

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/10/24/1676722/these-houses-arent-bear-traps-us-optimism-du-jour/

Sometimes things are easier than you think…

http://www.businessinsider.com/700-years-of-data-in-12-must-see-charts-2013-10

Going for the top 5: stock market’s rallies without a sizeable correction…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2013/10/21/515-trading-days-and-counting.html

…or is the valuation of stocks posing a problem?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-26/4-out-5-valuation-methodologies-agree-market-overvalued

I am not sure how the black line can dip below the red line, but there you go! Stocks are expensive!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/albert-edwards-record-high-median-price-sales-ratio-there-nothing-worth-buying
And what has third quarter earnings brought us so far?

http://www.businessinsider.com/goldmans-q3-earnings-season-update-2013-10

Sub Saharan African oil producing countries…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/guest-post-scramble-africas-oil

I probably have shown this one before, because it is interesting…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-23/its-2nd-worst-decade-over-220-years-and-getting-worse

The explosive growth of Polish in Germany…

http://qz.com/138807/germany-opened-its-immigration-gates-and-the-rest-of-europe-came-pouring-in/

And the schedule for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/10/schedule-for-week-of-october-27th.html

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