Good Morning. Take your pick: are you a macro-economist or I macro-economist… (via @went1955 and @MPNAdeBoer)
https://twitter.com/jamescrabtree/status/425886314014449664/photo/1

There’s a bit of a nasty surprise: China PMI drops…

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-flash-pmi-contracts-2014-1
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/23/us-china-economy-pmi-idUSBREA0M04420140123

Ha Ha Ha! Oh no, I am not supposed to laugh at this… Ha Ha Ha!

http://www.businessinsider.com/josh-browns-mutual-fund-decoder-2014-1

You want history? try this one for size: 5000 years!

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-interest-rates-from-3000-bc-2014-1

Not a real shocker, but interesting nevertheless: predicting equity returns is so difficult because of the ‘valuation’ component…

http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-advisor-insights-january-22-2014-1

Want to know the status of unemployment around the world?Look no further…

http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/global-employment-trends/2014/WCMS_233936/lang–en/index.htm

Investments, where art thou?

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/01/private-investment-and-business-cycle.html

Those thinking that the public sector is ever growing appear to be mostly wrong

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/01/daily-chart-13

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