Good Morning. Cool chart. Even though the ‘projections based on current data’ (15 years out) is impossible to make, of course
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/01/charts-of-the-day-creative-destruction-in-the-sp500-index/

Interesting study by the IMF showing that not all debt is equal. Consumer debt is the most evil…

http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2014/EurBook/pdf/2.pdf

…and even more interesting research from the IMF

http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2014/EurBook/pdf/4.pdf

State of the Union and stocks. Not much of a pattern, I would say…

http://www.businessinsider.com/stocks-and-the-state-of-the-union-2014-1

I find it hard to believe this chart, and not only because there were no computers back in 1930…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-28/chart-day-orders-computers-and-electronic-products-plunge-1993-levels

The Hawk-Dove spectrum of the Fed…
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/01/your-new-2014-fomc/

…and while we are on the subject of the Fed: here are the four (former/future) presidents

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-28/yellen-faces-what-bernanke-greenspan-couldn-t-do-ease-bubbles.html

“How the Bundesbank did not have ‘negative equity’ in the 1970s” Interesting read
http://macroexposure.com/2014/01/27/how-the-bundesbank-did-not-have-negative-equity-in-the-1970s/

Beautiful collection of national flags made by traditional food of the country (via www.ritholt.com)

http://www.thisismarvelous.com/i/52-National-Flags-Made-From-Each-Countrys-Traditional-Foods

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