Good morning. Cool chart on the growth of the human population
http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/05/29/estimates-world-gdp-one-million-b-c-present-1998-view-1998-honest-broker-week-may-24-2014-2/

…and while we are on the subject: looks like the growth of population will stop in most parts of the world

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21603024-why-shrinking-populations-may-be-no-bad-thing-quality-time

Ok, so we are back to where we were at the end of 2006….

http://soberlook.com/2014/06/failure-of-guidance-on-leveraged.html

Americans do not carry a lot of cash….

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-over-two-thirds-of-americans-carry-less-than-50-in-cash-2014-5

Best of last week, as selected by me

https://lukasdaalder.com/2014/05/30/best-in-economics-this-week-may-30/

Consensus and lack of volatility: signs of the time

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-31/groupthink-101-what-all-goldman-clients-believe-will-happen

It is not the 1%, it is the 0.01%

http://www.businessinsider.com/bofa-merrill-lynch-backs-piketty-2014-5

Nice chart, but I have no clue what the index of dependence is supposed to show…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-31/obamanomics-simplified

Cool: a bit of historic perspective on various soft commodity prices

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/05/commodity-prices-and-resource-scarcity

The reason behind the rally in Treasuries

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-30/behold-epic-treasury-short-covering-week

And we are heading for a busy week….
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/05/schedule-for-week-of-june-1st.html

…with the ECB taking center stage: what will they do…?

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/30/1865792/ah-i-see-we-are-firmly-in-the-what-if-qe-fails-stage-of-the-debate/

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