Good morning. What the Fed is talking about…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/fomc-minutes-on-unemployment-and-inflation-2015-2

The capacitor? Remember that one? Or the elastromer? Words counted in patents

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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/a-short-history-of-american-invention/385279/

And yet another way of making free money. The strategy does not work in 2015though….

http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2015/02/beginning-of-the-week-is-the-winner.html

Cool map, showing who has been hiding money in the HSBC case…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/18/map-whos-hiding-the-most-money-in-secret-swiss-bank-accounts/

“Why Active Management Fell Off a Cliff”

http://thereformedbroker.com/2015/02/17/why-active-management-fell-off-a-cliff-perhaps-permanently/

Pretty shocking, when you think of this one…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/global-stock-market-1899-2014-2015-2

The rise of the eurosceptics…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/02/daily-chart-11

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