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/

In case you wondered whether credit ratings served any purpose at all (does not apply for sub-prime, though)

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21595938-time-sweep-away-artificial-distinction-new-world-bonds

This issue has been discussed at length already, but the chart is a nice summary: jobless recovery (US), versus jobs without a recovery (UK)…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/02/labour-markets

Trend growth: it ain’t what it used to be. Not even if measured per capita…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/01/americas-economy

…and speaking of trend, here is an IMF study on potential growth in Emerging Asia…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/01/potential-growth-in-emerging-asia/

How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve…

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

An EU report into corruption in the EU. Apparently, it is bad… (via +ivo geijsen)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26014387

Emerging Markets the (anti) hype of the moment!

http://www.businessinsider.com/emerging-markets-media-coverage-explodes-2014-2

Nice one. If only I can figure out the underlying sequence here…

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-investors-commodities-quilt-2014-2

Lies, damn lies and statistics. Don’t believe the GDP numbers.

http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/trends/2014/0214/01gropro.cfm

Very nice overview of all the world’s tallest buildings. A lot of them used to be in the US….

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-02/chinas-epic-skyscraper-construction-spree-harbinger-crash

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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