Is this a predictable pattern, or what?

http://jlfmi.tumblr.com/post/104259000970/just-your-average-v-bottom-for-the-past-year-or

The totally subjective top 85 of most disruptive ideas of our time!

http://www.businessweek.com/features/85ideas/

Good morning. Talk about deleveraging! (not) Taken from the IMF’s country report of the Netherlands

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2014/cr14328.pdf

The BIS takes a stab at the october sell-off

http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1412.pdf

Is this true? Is the US current account a reliable leading indicator for rekative performance of US stocks?

http://www.businessinsider.com/kleintop-watching-dec-17-current-account-report-2014-12

Very cool website with various interactive valuation tools for all the important stock markets in the world

http://www.starcapital.de/research/stockmarketvaluation?SortBy=Shiller_PE

On the current recovery in the US labour market: the longest since WWII!

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/10-sunday-am-reads-20/

How much further can this Chinese rally run?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/12/chinas-stockmarket

Turkey’s country report by the IMF

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2014/cr14330.pdf

James bond and his much younger co-stars (until now)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/07/james-bond-finally-falls-for-a-woman-his-own-age/

Well known fact: the ageing of the Japanese country

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/12/05/2061771/some-striking-facts-about-japans-demography/

And here is another way to look at Japan…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/12/05/2060891/european-economist-at-japanese-bank-says-europe-would-be-lucky-to-end-up-like-japan/

Never been a worse time to be a 30 year old (compared to them old folks)

http://www.businessinsider.com/young-adult-vs-all-adult-weekly-earnings-2014-12

And here we get the same idea…

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/millennials-arent-saving-money-because-theyre-not-making-money/383338/

The Los Angeles sea…

http://qz.com/307224/your-city-underwater-heres-what-life-will-look-like-after-global-warming/

And the schedules for the week to come
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/12/schedule-for-week-of-december-7th.html

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