Good morning. I am not sure whether ‘nice one’ is in order here… Scary one is more like it…

http://www.businessinsider.com/south-china-sea-territory-claims-map-2014-2

Interesting chart showing the (silent) comeback of the Egyptian stock market

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/02/18/egypt-back-to-2008-levels/

Robert Gordon has given an update: “The Demise of U.S. Economic Growth: Restatement, Rebuttal, and Reflections”

http://www.nber.org/papers/w19895
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/02/robert-gordons-sequel-paper-on-the-great-stagnation.html

I would say the causation runs the other way round, but the OECD seems to disagree…

http://www.oecd.org/about/publishing/Euro_Area_Brochure.pdf

Sex sells. All I am saying…

The US household and debt report is out! With lots of data and stuff. Like this one: debt by now is predominantly for the younger generation

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/02/whos-borrowing-now-the-young-and-the-riskless.html

The decline in demand for (paper) gold in 2013

http://www.businessinsider.com/gold-demand-from-2004-to-2013-2014-2

Interesting trend: the steady decline of weight in market cap from some leading Emerging Markets…

http://feedly.com/index.html#category%2FThe%20Big%20Picture

…and this is the same but looking at it at from a different angle

http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-1899-2013-2014-2

Nice chart on space programmes

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/02/daily-chart-11

Very big infographic on US retirements. Or, the pension crisis as they call it…

http://www.accounting-degree.org/retirement/

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