And the winner with respect to labour markets is…. Germany!

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

And the winner with respect to UK house prices is…. London!

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-the-london-housing-bubble-2013-10

Putting things into some longer term perspective…

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

A nice overview of the relative outperformance of small caps, all the way back since 1925

http://www.mebanefaber.com/2013/10/25/what-to-do-with-small-caps/

Cool overview of all the settlements and penalties in the US financial system… Looks like a profitable business!

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

If the Fed will not tapper, it will end up buying all of the newly issued debt before long…

https://twitter.com/EBawerk/status/395934363436584961/photo/1

Nice one: car penetration meets wealth…

http://www.businessinsider.com/reminder-the-chinese-auto-market-is-going-to-be-ridiculously-huge-2013-10

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

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

Cool download for the UK: debt and GDP all the way back to 1700

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/three-centuries-of-debt-and-interest-rates/

The Dutch are good at ‘being tall’, apparently…

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

Very interesting website packed with maps showing what this world looks like

http://chartsbin.com/

Article 4 consultation by the IMF on Brazil!

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

Clear enough chart on the distribution of wealth for a number of countries

http://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2013/10/30/its-halloween-so-time-for-some-spooky-if-not-downright-scary-charts/

Beautiful chart from the IMF on China’s influence in sub-saharan Africa

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/2013/afr/eng/sreo1013.htm

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