Good morning. In case you have missed it: the short wrap-up of financial markets in 2014!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/2014-futures-performance-2014-12

And another in the series in-case-you-have-missed-it: the best charts of 2014!

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

And back to 2015: when were those elections due?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/12/graphics-1

And the euro just hit a new low

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b94dcf2a-9475-11e4-82c7-00144feabdc0.html
chart from: http://www.forexlive.com/blog/2015/01/04/euro-getting-smashed-in-early-asia/

News in 2014, or at least how the Americans consumed it

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/01/the-year-in-news/

Interesting chart on how diseases apear to be fighting a losing battle…

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/fraser-nelson/2014/12/why-2015-will-probably-be-the-best-year-in-human-history/

33 weird charts, apparently. I just picked this one

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/our-33-weirdest-charts-from-2014/

Forecasting. Always difficult.

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/12/supply-demand-and-the-price-of-oil

The traditional overview of the investing fads for the year to come

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/investment-fads-1996-2014/

I already knew the left part of this chart: the right one is new

www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/12/global-carbon-footprint-2/

So how are you doing? Depends on where you live.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/31/chart-americans-are-in-an-unusually-good-mood-all-the-time/

I don’t think this one is correct, but here you go

http://uk.businessinsider.com/government-debt-holders-2014-12?r=US

Lazy people…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-humans-spend-their-time-2014-12

Turnover in the S&P500

http://uk.businessinsider.com/sp-500-deletions-due-to-distress-2014-12

And the schedule for the week to come.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2015/01/schedule-for-week-of-january-4-2015.html

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