Cool chart showing the oil production of the US

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/10/the-united-states-of-oil/

Which nicely relates to this chart, on the total of oil supply disruptions

http://www.businessinsider.com/geopolitics-oil-supply-disruptions-2014-10

More girl power: women are doing a lot better in today’s European labour market than men…

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/mobu/mb201410en.pdf

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 weak recovery of the US consumer in historical perspective.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/03/these-charts-show-just-how-historically-bad-the-recession-was-for-u-s-consumers/

It doesn’t happen often that I disagree with The Economist, but where are The Netherlands in the 1600s?

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21623758-chinas-back

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

Some background on the Shale Gas story

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/business/energy-environment/reversing-the-flow-of-oil-.html

Cool breakdown of bond flows by the IMF from the report called: “Emerging Markets volatility: lessons from the taper tantrum”

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2014/sdn1409.pdf

Cool interactive tool from The economist on the US elections. The most boring elections ever…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/10/us-mid-terms-interactive

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