“Why inequality is such a drag on economies”

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8b41dfc8-47c1-11e4-ac9f-00144feab7de.html

The Economist on the third wave and the damaging side of technology http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21621156-first-two-industrial-revolutions-inflicted-plenty-pain-ultimately-benefited

So much for debt deleveraging… The Global debt to GDP ratio is still rising according to this study

http://www.voxeu.org/article/geneva-report-global-deleveraging

Two charts showing the composition of financial assets in the world. Emerging markets…

…and the industrialised world (4 times as large)…

http://www.businessinsider.com/geneva-report-2014-2014-9 Tech IPO’s through time. Remember Infineon http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/10/biggest-tech-ipos/

Where S&P companies get their revenues from… http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-500-company-earnings-in-middle-east-2014-9

The hump is gone!

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21621908-what-impressive-work-economic-history-tells-you-about-inequality-breaking

Cool tool from the OECD on how life changed over the decades. Financial and non-financial. http://gitvfd.github.io/How-was-life/

The hope of every proponent of the coming capex boom in the US…. http://www.businessinsider.com/average-age-of-private-fixed-assets-2014-9

Just when you think you have seen all the variations on the inequality theme…

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/upshot/the-benefits-of-economic-expansions-are-increasingly-going-to-the-richest-americans.html

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

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