JP Morgan? I wouldn’t have thought of that one…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/men-like-some-stocks-women-like-others-2015-2

212 pages on twelve scenarios on how the world the world will end…

http://globalchallenges.org/wp-content/uploads/12-Risks-with-infinite-impact-full-report-1.pdf

Yet another way of looking at zero (or sub-zero) rates

http://uk.businessinsider.com/90-of-the-industrialized-world-right-anchored-by-zirp-2015-2

Pretty shocking, when you think of this one…

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

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

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

Greece and the great depression…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/02/daily-chart-6

A number of interesting charts. I like this one: the plunge in expected earnings for 2015

http://uk.businessinsider.com/bi-most-important-charts-in-the-world-2015-2?op=1

The impact of the price collapse in oil…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/global-impact-of-50-oil-price-fall-2015-2

Robots are going to be replacing… military personal…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-theres-going-to-be-a-surge-in-spending-on-military-robots-2015-2

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/

A day too late, but cool nevertheless: on relationships

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/13/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-love-in-25-maps-and-charts/

The chart is old, but still tells a lot about the mess that Libya is in right now…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/libya-has-48-billion-barrels-of-oil-but-its-industry-has-almost-entirely-collapsed-2015-2

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