Good morning. The demographic dividend. Only one continent is expected to harvest it…

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=41819.0

For those returning from Holidays: best of last week…

https://lukasdaalder.com/2014/08/08/best-in-economics-this-week-august-8/

From the Dallas Fed: “ Economic Gains Likely to Tighten Job Market, Push Up Wages”

http://www.dallasfed.org/research/update/us/2014/1405.cfm

Always interesting: the spider chart of the US labour market

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/08/getting-there-.html

Some interesting observations in this “A recession without a boom?”
http://fatasmihov.blogspot.sg/2014/08/a-recession-without-boom.html

Volatile? We ain’t seen nothing yet…

http://qz.com/245848/heres-how-incredibly-complacent-investors-are-right-now/

Longest outflow on record. I don’t think it has any predictive power though…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-09/longest-streak-high-yield-outflows-record-and-why-it-may-get-worse

Not that this is scientific proof or anything

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/sanctions-costs-who-paying-most

Fridays are the new Tuesdays!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/russell-2000-has-best-week-2-months-amid-geopolitical-chaos

And, as always, this week’s schedule!
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/08/schedule-for-week-of-august-10th.html

Nice video clip mapping births and deaths through the ages…

http://qz.com/244999/watch-how-the-centers-of-western-culture-migrated-over-2000-years/

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