Good morning. In case you have missed it: despite tensions in the Middle East, oil prices are heading South… http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/10/8/new-oil-bear-market.html

Drones. Coming to a wrist near you before long…

And….we’re off! Third quarter results are about to be published. Alcoa managed to beat expectations http://www.businessinsider.com/alcoa-global-aluminum-outlook-october-8-2014-10

Pretty cool chart on the weak development on bank lending http://www.businessinsider.com/the-imf-is-calling-for-state-guarantees-for-bank-lending-2014-10

The Global Stability report from the IMF: 190 pages of reading, charts and data… I started from the back

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

I would say this is a clear indication of rising wealth. Or am I missing something? http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.nl/2014/10/spending-on-necessities-and-luxuries.html

Some perspective on the first US Ebola death in the US (via @sassenvanelsoo) https://twitter.com/sassenvanelsloo/status/519931743097593856

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