The breakdown of the returns of the S&P500 over the past 40 years

http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-returns-decomposed-2013-11

Is the fed behind the curve?

http://twitpic.com/dlq4cg

McKinsey takes a crack at the costs and benefits of QE…

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_studies/qe_and_ultra_low_interest_rates_distributional_effects_and_risks

Life expectancy has risen almost everywhere….

http://www.wcashingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/21/the-u-s-ranks-26th-for-life-expectancy-right-behind-slovenia

Pension fund wealth. Now how is it that the French can retire so early…

http://www.economist.com/news/economic-and-financial-indicators/21589907-pension-funds

So, what happened in the 1990s to make Africa more democratic…?

http://www.voxeu.org/article/democracy-africa

One of the scariest developments I can think of…

http://www.businessinsider.com/country-rankings-of-sex-ratio-at-birth-2013-11

Stock market returns over the past three years all the way back to 1930

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-stock-market-wont-crash-2013-11#stocks-have-delivered-very-typical-3-year-average-returns-1

How to end it all….

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/this-is-how-we-die-now/

Cool (and at the same time not so cool) chart showing racial preferences in online dating

http://qz.com/149342/the-uncomfortable-racial-preferences-revealed-by-online-dating/

Fair point.

http://thisisindexed.com/2013/11/supervision-isnt-always-so-super/

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