Good morning. Complementary 1000th edition. Please read it and thanks to everyone!

https://lukasdaalder.com/2014/05/22/best-of-the-web-complementary-edition-2/

Credit Suisse read Piketty and takes a crack at r>g: “we are not (traceably) oligarched by the offspring of Roman emperors”

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/22/1859552/credit-suisse-reads-piketty/

The Target2 annual report! That used to be quite an interesting publication once…

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/targetar2013en.pdf

Cool chart on the Indian elections….

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/05/daily-chart-14

Volatility has died. Whether that is good or bad, is a matter of taste

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/05/volatility-crash
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21602734-volatility-has-disappeared-economy-and-markets-could-be

I have shown these one before, but still

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http://www.businessinsider.com/dudley-on-the-changing-labor-force-2014-5

How to lie with graphics.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-19/the-retirement-apocalypse-that-isn-t-coming.html

Interesting question: will the green line go down or will the red line go up?

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/5/22/nasdaq-and-smallcaps-diverge.html

Tall buildings. Always interesting.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/05/tallest-deepest-longest-manmade-structures/

And some statistics on how big the stock market in the world currently is

http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/05/22/how-big-is-the-global-stock-market/

The deep value-screen. Apparently it goes up in Japan.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/05/expensive-world-value-japanese-equities/

Ok. So the Dutch have managed to make it Quartz… #stemfie

http://qz.com/212392/the-dutch-are-perfecting-the-controversial-art-of-the-voting-booth-selfie/

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