Good morning. Here’s one I haven’t read much about: the decline in Chinese housing prices…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/asian-property-prices-are-falling-if-theres-global-financial-crisis

Say, what? “Hidden Obstacles for Google’s Self-Driving Cars”

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530276/hidden-obstacles-for-googles-self-driving-cars/

Bad news = good news for Japanese stocks. Yen declines and Nikkei jumps on bad auto sales

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/usdjpy-and-nikkei-surge-higher-japanese-car-sales-collapse-3-year-lows

More inequality

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/08/27/a-look-at-income-inequality-hour-by-hour/

A bit of history by the BIS: “The international monetary and financial system: a capital account historical perspective”

http://www.bis.org/publ/work457.pdf

ISIS, where do the foreign fighters come from?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/where-do-isis-fighters-come

Very cool website enabling you to see how the average US citizen is spending his/her time

http://www.retale.com/info/busy-states-of-america/

Russia is pretty isolated, according to the West. But is it? (and no, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this chart)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/everyone-saying-russia-isolated-heres-map

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