Good morning. This does not need an introduction:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/10/weekend-reads-141/

…and this is not without consequences…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-12/king-dollar-be-careful-what-you-wish

Standard & Poors strips Finland of its AAA status and gives France a negative outlook
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102077802
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102070639

Best of last week. All in one edition.

https://lukasdaalder.com/2014/10/10/best-in-economics-this-week-october-10/

On the plus side: the lines start lower each year, which means that the room for disappointments is smaller

http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2014/10/12/its-the-new-mediocre-not-a-global-recession/

Ebola… The US has just reported number two…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-10/ebola-pandemic-update-probable-cases-brazil-and-paris-7-more-isolated-spain-who-warn

…this is what The Economist has to say on the subject

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/10/ebola-graphics

…and here is a bit more info on the subject

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-10/how-ebola-affects-body

Look at Italy….

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2014/10/the-state-of-investment-around-the-world/

Interesting chart. Is the success of shale becoming the threat of shale?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-10/fracking-enters-bear-market-question-emerges-shale-boom-built-sea-lies

Eastern Europe is feeling the heat from the weak European growth performance

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2014/car101014b.htm

A bit of reading on inequality and redistribution

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/does-usa-really-soak-rich

Ah, the Netherlands is in the top league of ‘willingness to work abroad’ index
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.nl/2014/10/will-us-workers-start-going-abroad.html

And the schedule for the week to come

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/10/schedule-for-week-of-october-12th.html

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