Good morning. Another milestone: number 1100!! Coffee and cake seems appropriate

http://www.littleapronbaking.com/cakes-and-pies/

Let’s start on a positive note: this is what happened with stocks when Clinton lost Congress in ‘94

http://www.businessinsider.com/stocks-gop-congress-sitting-democrat-president-2014-11

Goldman has developed a risk of equity bust matrix… Somehow, the odds with or without recessions is the same…

http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-stock-market-crash-2014-11

Can it be this simple…?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-04/oil-its-economy-stupid

…or is there more going on?

http://online.wsj.com/articles/saudi-oil-price-cut-upends-market-1415063053

“The 10 greatest changes of the past 1,000 years” Great not necessarily meaning good…

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/30/10-greatest-changes-of-the-past-1000-years

Nice one: the costs of traffic jams

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/11/economist-explains-1

Bonds are everywhere in the Japanese economy…

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-04/only-few-years-left-until-nikkei-hits-dylan-grices-price-target-63000000

A piece on demographics and why this will hurt growth

http://www.voxeu.org/article/demography-and-economics-look-past-past

It’s a long time we have read anything on the US housing markets, so there you go

http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2014/november/housing-mortgage-economy-economic-recovery/

Nice chart. Limited added value though

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-1

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