Good morning. Yellen is using shorter sentences in the FOMC statement. I hope someone knows how to use this info, because I don’t

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/11/the-rising-complexity-of-the-fomc-statement/

The fact that Israel and Mexico have the highest life satisfaction score sort of makes me doubt this bit of research

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/11/people-in-emerging-markets-catch-up-to-advanced-economies-in-life-satisfaction/

Telephone calls around the world

http://qz.com/290868/this-map-of-international-phone-calls-explains-globalization/

Is the market getting ahead of itself?

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/11/3/bullish-sentiment-up-to-68.html

Cool piece of research from Bloomberg

http://www.bloombergbriefs.com/content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/China-Plenum-opt.pdf

I have no clue whether these numbers are correct, but if they are, the euro area is pretty bad…

http://www.businessinsider.com/adair-turner-talks-about-uk-household-debt-2014-10

And I do know that these numbers are correct: and they are pointing down

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-03/lack-daily-central-bank-intervention-fails-push-futures-solidly-higher-yen-implosion

The relative lack of government contribution to the recovery so far.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-31/how-congress-crippled-the-recovery

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