Good morning. Interesting chart showing the shift in income gains through time…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-07/record-numbers-americans-recounce-citizenship-under-obama

And the rich are even richer than reported, according to this research…

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-06/the-1-may-be-richer-than-you-think-research-shows.html

By sheer coincidence, I got three nice contributions from three different Robeco colleagues yesterday. This one is from @jackneele: plot your own energy chart…

https://www.youtube.com/user/shellletsgo/letsgo?x=content~shell-content-87&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_post&utm_content=twitter_twitter-natural-gas-wired-en_cc&utm_campaign=letsgo2014_yt&x=source~twitter_twitter-natural-gas-wired-en_cc_decades-in-energy_pr

…this one is from Mark Glazener, via barclays. Looks like there is a boom going on there…

…and this is the one from @pvanderwelle on the sunni-shia divide. Clips, information and background

http://www.cfr.org/peace-conflict-and-human-rights/sunni-shia-divide/p33176?cid=ppc-FA_com-sunni_shia_divide_infoguide-072914#!/

The harsh reality of retirement (and some disturbing statistics on US savings)

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/08/07/1921822/federal-reserve-finds-us-households-are-unwell/

I can’t say they have been randomly chosen, but ‘pretty arbitrarily’ fits the bill

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/08/structural-secular-markets/

Do not expect Japanese consumers to be the big driver behind the economy

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21611152-even-jobs-grow-scarce-real-wages-continue-fall-feeling-pinch

This knife cuts both ways though…

http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-leading-food-importers-2014-8

Those US spikes during the wars are impressive…

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21611109-new-techniques-show-damage-done-subsidies-heart-global

I forgot to mention this one, yesterday! @went1955’s weekly twitter-overview!

http://www.oneworld.nl/bloggen/blogs/de-week-tweets/de-week-van-went-tweets-20

Ouch.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/07/italys-triple-dip-recession-has-wiped-out-all-its-growth-since-2000/

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