Good morning. The final countdown for the Best Chart of the Year award has begun!

https://lukasdaalder.com/2014/12/18/best-of-the-web-in-2014/

The higher, the less good…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/12/18/2076091/christmas-2014-charted/

IPO bonanza!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/2014-us-ipo-record-year-2014-12

The chart of the decade?? Surely not…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/slok-10-year-rate-forecasts-2014-12

This one never ceases to amaze me: the US and evolution

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/evolution-less-accepted-in-u-s-than-other-western-countries/

And while we are on the subject of Amazement and the US, look who is topping this ranking…

http://www.wsj.com/articles/memo-to-staff-time-to-lose-a-few-pounds-1418775776

Proven reserves in oil. But why the focus on oil and not on gas…?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/chart-proven-oil-reserves-2014-12

The incredable rise of births out of wedlock in the US

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/18/the-unbelievable-rise-of-single-motherhood-in-america-over-the-last-50-years/

Not sure whether this runner analogy makes any sense, but here you go.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/sustaining-african-growth

And here’s another one of those: here you go’s…

https://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2014/12/18/either-longer-dated-index-linked-gilts-vulnerable-uk-economy/

A remarkable high link between the earnings of fathers and sons in the US and UK

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/18/in-love-opposites-dont-attract-and-thats-a-big-problem-for-inequality/

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