Good Morning. Average men. The one on the left is an American, on the right Dutch…

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/this-is-the-average-mans-body/280194/

Interesting chart on NET issuances of new stock (IPO-buyback): it is rising strongly!

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/12/16/1723592/a-bull-market-without-buyers/

The most unequal ‘income’ distribution of them all: capital gains
http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-insane-gini-coefficients-2013-12

Pine bluff upon shore. That’s what you get when all the ice melts. And you haven’t seen the Netherlands yet… (via http://www.ritholtz.com/)

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map

Totally useless information: on tea and coffee drinking…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/12/daily-chart-17

Best of Last week. Cool pictures, interesting charts and more.

https://lukasdaalder.com/2013/12/13/best-in-economics-this-week-december-13/

Correction in the offing?

http://qz.com/158290/why-2014-could-be-a-rough-year-for-the-us-stock-market-and-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-taper/

This one is featured each year, mainly because of the horrible colours, I guess..
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/josh-brown-investment-fads-and-themes/

And -sticking to these colours- : here is a nice (though incomplete) overview of art auctions

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/12/16/art-market-chart-of-the-day-auction-gross-edition/

Interesting chart + observations from Lombard street.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/12/16/1723982/party-like-its-1999-2/

I don’t think buying (and selling) 127 billion in Forest Laboratories is all that realistic, but still: this is how you make more than $ 270 billion in one year…
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http://qz.com/157404/how-you-could-have-turned-1000-into-billions-of-dollars-by-perfectly-trading-the-sp-500-this-year/

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