Good Morning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/your-money/stocks-and-bonds/why-we-buy-in-a-marked-up-market.html

The fragile five, the sickly six, the edgy eight: Emerging markets seem to have an image-problem these days…
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a245c70e-7e0c-11e3-95dd-00144feabdc0.html

This one might come in handy sometime later this year…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/01/15/1742132/the-updated-fomc-dove-hawk-spectrum/

Now there’s a surprise: Greeks have a pretty low confidence in their government… Japan scores pretty poorly as well though

http://oecdinsights.org/2014/01/15/taking-a-ruler-to-our-rulers-government-at-a-glance-2013/

Let the record show…

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2014/01/13/u-s-budget-deficit-plunging-in-fiscal-2014/

Movieclip from The Economist on various financial crisis

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/01/daily-chart-7?fsrc=rss

Ok, who is willing to take the bet that African population will indeed grow like the black line shows? I am willing to say it is nonsense.

http://www.businessinsider.com/africas-population-projection-through-2100-2014-1

All about the reverse repo facility

http://soberlook.com/2014/01/the-fed-preparing-markets-for-reverse.html

Not sure whether this is helpful for anyone…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-15/level-economic-freedom-united-states-all-time-low

This one comes from the “40 charts that explain the world“

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/15/40-charts-that-explain-the-world/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd

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