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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-07/four-photos-frozen-america

New rules for rating agencies concerning country rating changes… (via Kommer van Trigt)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/03/ratings-calendar-idUSL6N0KC1P320140103

This one is pretty interesting…

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/01/what-happened-to-us-life-expectancy.html

Let’s repeat it one more time: and the winner is….

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/01/daily-chart-0

This one comes with the question: “so, you want higher rates?”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-07/so-you-want-higher-rates

Study from the OECD (well, the excerpt from the Economist, that is) into what determines whether skill leads to higher pay…
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/01/economic-value-skills

So, even I did not care about currency moves (=local currency), they still appear to be linked to exchange rates?

http://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2014/01/07/emerging-market-debt-2013-returns-post-mortem-and-themes-for-2014/

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