Good morning. For the optimists out there

http://www.businessinsider.com/dow-jones-industrial-average-super-cycles-2014-9

Very nice: almost 150 years of Japanese GDP growth and inflation!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-03/145-years-japanese-growth-and-inflation

Blog by Bruegel on the ‘bond market conundrum’

http://www.bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/1424-blogs-review-the-bond-market-conundrum-redux/

And here is James Saft’s take on it: ageing….
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/03/us-saft-on-wealth-idUSKBN0GY2HY20140903

Look! Just by talking Draghi has already solved the inflation expectations problem!

http://www.businessinsider.com/ecb-september-meeting-preview-2014-9

A number of charts on the weird health spending anomaly that the US really is…

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/2/6089693/health-care-facts-whats-wrong-american-insurance

Is sovereign risk too low again in Europe?

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/09/03/1954871/a-european-savings-glut-or-just-mis-priced-risk/

Another nice one for a pub-quiz: internet penetration levels in Emerging Markets

http://theirrelevantinvestor.tumblr.com/post/96471683563/wild-emerging-market-statistics

If ever you get jailed in the US, let’s hope you don’t have a tattoo… 🙂

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/08/tattoos-jobs-and-recidivism

This one is pretty shocking and clearly before the time cluster bombs were considered not-done… (via Tjeerd Borrie)

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