Ten super Dilberts: spot your own favorite!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/best-dilbert-comics-2015-10

The importance of manufacturing in the S&P, versus that in the whole of the US economy

http://uk.businessinsider.com/charts-showing-that-stock-market-is-not-the-us-economy-2015-10

And here are some more S&P500 factoids: how the S&P500 breaks down in credit quality

http://uk.businessinsider.com/speculative-grade-companies-in-the-sp-500-2015-10

Spot the pattern.

http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2015/10/25/ecb-and-fed-reverse-their-traditional-roles/

The buybacks are back as an important (negative) issue

https://www.bondvigilantes.com/blog/2015/10/29/happy-halloween-five-scary-charts-that-freddy-krueger-would-be-proud-of/

Investing is being willing to take ‘some’ losses

https://theirrelevantinvestor.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/dry-powder/

Or not? “Are share buybacks jeopardizing future growth?”

http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Corporate_Finance/Are_share_buybacks_jeopardizing_future_growth

A study by the IMF on sub saharan Africa warning that growth will slow down

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/2015/afr/eng/pdf/sreo1015.pdf

A nice bit of reading on the weird Chinese statistical quirks

http://qz.com/530096/china-data-tricks/

A timebomb waiting to go off…?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-country-rankings-of-sex-ratio-at-birth-2015-10

Very beautiful interactive chart on oil markets

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/30/business/how-the-us-and-opec-drive-oil-prices.html

Waiting for outperformance. It can take a while, sometimes…

https://theirrelevantinvestor.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/historic-underperformance/

Interesting topic from the IMF: “The Fiscal Consequences of Shrinking Populations”

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1521.pdf

I am pretty sure I have shown this one before. I am in the ‘Trust us, we’ve got everything covered’ camp

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/the-sounds-good-in-theory-portfolio/

A bit of reading on the Philips curve

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/10/mr-phillips-and-his-curve-what-should-the-fed-do-weblogging.html

A remarkable divergence, no matter what

http://uk.businessinsider.com/bank-of-england-should-hike-before-the-fed-2015-10

And they still haven’t abolished that stupid debt ceiling

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/10/the-us-debt-ceiling-has-risen-no-matter-who-calls-the-shots/

Quite a bit of history in just one chart

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/29/one-chart-captures-why-chinas-letting-families-have-more-kids/

A number of interesting topics collected in one blogpost

http://www.voxeu.org/article/selected-takeaways-ecb-s-sintra-forum-inflation-and-unemployment-europe

ETFs have become bigger than hedge funds. Who’s next?

http://www.ai-cio.com/channel/ASSET-ALLOCATION/The-$3-Trillion-ETF–Boom-/

And there’s your answer… (and watch out for that axis!)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2015/10/01/bad-news-for-janus-franklin-and-t-rowe/

A number of beautiful old pictures of immigrants on Ellis Island

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/24/what-americas-immigrants-looked-like-when-they-arrived-on-ellis-island/

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