Good morning. The first day of October…

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/10/1/10th-worst-start-to-october-in-history.html

And today, all attention will turn to the ECB again
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ecb-to-flesh-out-asset-purchase-plan-it-hopes-will-buoy-euro-zone-2014-10

Very cool site from the Guardian, enabling you to resize the world according to various variable

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2014/sep/23/carbon-map-which-countries-are-responsible-for-climate-change

And the outflow at PIMCO’s continues…

http://www.businessinsider.com/pimco-total-return-fund-outflows-sept-2014-10

We know it already, but here you have it again…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/10/big-gains-for-the-1-percents-1-percent/

And this is the US perception on wealth distribution

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/09/americans_have_no_idea_how_bad_inequality_is_new_harvard_business_school.html

The growing interest into the good and bad of robots. Via the weekly-tweet overview of @went1955

http://www.oneworld.nl/bloggen/blogs/de-week-tweets/de-week-van-went-tweets-26

Interesting…

http://pragcap.com/will-rising-rates-hurt-reit-performance

The IMF on executive pay (amongst others)

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/gfsr/2014/02/pdf/text.pdf

This is the worst technical analysis chart. Ever.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-01/stocks-are-line

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