Beautiful charts showing the long term development of stocks, commodities and bond yields

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-08/long-term-charts-1-american-markets-independence

Tax havens. Well at least for US multinationals (not necessarily for residence…)

http://qz.com/176070/new-evidence-makes-it-plain-that-ireland-is-a-tax-haven/

Unbelievably bad movie clip by Bloomberg on the euro-crisis…

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-european-debt-crisis-visualized-iPA3~AbsSGG89LOGkkd~RA.html

Well-timed piece of research from the BIS on long term yields in emerging markets

https://www.bis.org/publ/work441.pdf

Predictable, but still interesting: job growth comes from young firms

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-13/chart-day-where-do-jobs-come-and-where-do-they-go-die

Weird US pizza factoids. 25% of all 6 to 11 year olds eat pizza on a random day
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/new-report-americans-love-pizza/283721/

PriceWaterhouseCoopers takes a look into the future of Asset Management!

http://www.pwc.nl/nl_NL/nl/assets/documents/pwc-asset-management-2020-a-brave-new-world.pdf

Interesting data from the ECB on corporate leverage in the various Eurozone countries

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/mobu/mb201402en.pdf

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