Oh no! The pope is coming to the US!!!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/sp-500-and-the-pope-2015-9

An IMF study on loans in Europe: “A Strategy for Resolving Europe’s Problem Loans”

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1519.pdf

Low growth, but still leveraging up…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/24/2140722/global-credit-limits-and-confusing-china-correlations-charted/

A bit of history: a 367 year old Dutch bond that is still paying interest!

http://news.yale.edu/2015/09/22/living-artifact-dutch-golden-age-yale-s-367-year-old-water-bond-still-pays-interest

Always interesting, although we have seen these charts more often

http://uk.businessinsider.com/historical-view-of-global-gdp-shares-2015-9

Ok: the trend is clear

http://uk.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-piketty-is-history-2015-9

Interesting table. There is a clear ‘small country’ bias though

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/the-robin-hood-index/

An IMF study on loans in Europe: “A Strategy for Resolving Europe’s Problem Loans”

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1519.pdf

Low growth, but still leveraging up…

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/24/2140722/global-credit-limits-and-confusing-china-correlations-charted/

Financial stability report from the IMF

http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2015/082815a.pdf

Talk about a big trend: when will it reverse (if ever)

http://uk.businessinsider.com/hsbcs-technical-us-stock-market-top-2015-9

Cool chart on were all the S&P500 companies come from

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/where-the-fortune-500-companies-are-located/

Janet is explaining why the inflation is as low as it is…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/janet-yellen-umass-speech-charts-2015-9

High speed trading is on the rise in the Treasury market…

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-bond-market-the-u-s-treasury-struggles-to-keep-up-1443027850

Asians on… Asians. Especially the Chinese are not too forthcoming with compliments…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-chart-14

Beautiful interactive chart on the refugees

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-chart-16

And here is another one: European immigrants in international context

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/does-europe-take-in-enough-migrants/

The changing relationship between China and the US plotted over time

http://qz.com/506469/the-evolving-relationship-between-the-us-and-china-charted/

The zero risk bias. Somehow I get the feeling it does not apply to me…

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/20-cognitive-biases-that-screw-up-your-decisions/

A couple of neat charts on the Arctic (via @Bhoogezand)

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/09/6-charts-to-help-you-become-an-arctic-expert/

Liquidity – or the lack thereof – is a hot topic right now

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-17/five-things-that-zirp-did-for-the-corporate-bond-market

Groundwater depletion. “California take note”

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9323379/saudi-arabia-squandered-its-groundwater-and-agriculture-collapsed

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