Good morning. Financial ‘assets’ have grown substantially, but interestingly, so has world GDP
http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-advisor-insights-march-25-2014-3

Nice one: let’s start the history of money right at the beginning, when earth was barely solid…

http://www.millennialinvest.com/history-of-money

Interesting idea, but what do you think the Chinese did 10 years ago: “Considering QE, Mario? Buy US bonds, not Eurobonds”
http://www.voxeu.org/article/ecb-should-do-qe-forex-intervention

A thing to keep an eye on: will El Nino reappear again this year?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-25/goodbye-polar-vortex-hello-solar-vortex-el-nino-coming

Interesting analyses, but from a biased source: “Stress Testing the Fed”

http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2014/march/federal-reserve-interest-rate-risk-stress-test/

“The coordinated portfolio investment survey” from the IMF. Enjoy.

http://cpis.imf.org/

And talking about a bias: the self-assessment of the OECD on growth predictions…

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/5jz73l1qw1s1.pdf

Somehow I am shocked that anyone reports this as nes: the tax authority goes after bitcoin. Who would have thunk that…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/25/us-bitcoin-irs-idUSBREA2O1LR20140325

Early days yet, but normally when food prices surge, riots are likely to increase

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-food-prices-are-surging-2014-3

Cool, blinking dashboard (click on the link to understand what I mean)

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-often-things-happen-around-the-world-2014-3

Growth forecasts. The Netherlands is not exactly a high flyer…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/03/daily-chart-14

Tssssk. Am I to believe that there are Dutch out here who never ride a bike…?

http://qz.com/191841/swedes-are-the-sportiest-in-europe-while-bulgarians-cant-seem-to-get-off-the-couch/

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