Good morning. Dividend per share (blue line) just keeps on rising

http://uk.businessinsider.com/sp-500-dividends-2015-3

Cool chart on bear markets.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/03/bear-markets-happen/

How do stocks perform during recessions?

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/stock-performance-before-during-after-recessions/

Some thoughts about the Fed. I see a sudden appearance of greater consensus, but maybe I am wrong

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/03/what-game-is-the-federal-reserve-playing.html

The BIS takes a look at the cost of deflation and finds that it is not as bad as some people claim

http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1503e.pdf

The trouble with emerging currencies…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/upshot/how-a-rising-dollar-is-creating-trouble-for-emerging-economies.html

I have shown something like this before. Especially the former Soviet Union stands out in the crowd

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/03/the-global-flow-of-people/

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