Good morning. Best Olympic games ever. And the haven’t even started… On drinking water (see below), toilets and Putin…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/02/04/journalists-at-sochi-are-live-tweeting-their-hilarious-and-gross-hotel-experiences/

http://deadspin.com/a-users-guide-to-the-bizarre-toilets-of-sochi-1516518904

I missed this one earlier: How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve”

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-economics-phds-took-over-the-federal-reserve/

Interesting: so much for snowfall being responsible for a lousy jobs report…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-05/impact-heavy-snowfall-jobs-what-facts-really-say

Which country stands to lose most when the Chinese economy slows down…

http://www.businessinsider.com/ripple-effects-of-chinese-slowdown-2014-2

It’s comparing apples and pears if you ask me, and leaving the Argentine peso out is cheeky, but still: before…:

…and after. Interesting read on the Emerging markets turmoil…

http://www.voxeu.org/article/understanding-emerging-market-turmoil

Pretty useless if you ask me, but hey, maybe it is of some use for some of you!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/02/comparing-generational-lows-1942-1974-2009/

For the iphone/tech nerds: “How much would an iphone have cost in 1991?” Quite a bit…

http://www.techpolicydaily.com/communications/much-iphone-cost-1991/

Cool bunch of photo’s from the Sony World Photography Awards

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/02/the-2014-sony-world-photography-awards/100674/

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