Debt simulator

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

The lion share of EPO applications is actually granted { in

our time window covering the years from 1978 to 1995, the grant rate is

63.5 percent. Only 5.1 percent of the cases are actually explicitly refused

by the patent examiner, while 27.4 percent are withdrawn by the applicants

themselves after receiving a su_ciently negative search report or "sceptical"

communication from the examiner

According

to our dataset, once a patent application has been _led, 4.3 years elapse on

average before a decision is made by the o_ce to grant the patent

The grant rate varies between 56.5 percent in consumer goods and equipment

(area 29) and 70.8 percent in nuclear engineering (area 9)

Decisions are taking

particularly long to reach in the areas of information technology (6.2 years,

area 5), biotechnology (5.7 years, area 13) and semiconductors (5.6 years,

area 5).

12,384 in 1979 to 101,048 in

2001

http://www.gizmag.com/throwable-ball-camera-captures-panoramic-images/20168/

http://www.tradingfloor.com/blogs/equity-daily-theme/is-a-swedish-housing-panic-a-bank-killer-469806046?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Trading-Floor+%28TradingFloor%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

For now though Rogers is playing it safe and avoiding bonds. Instead, he's betting on stagflation by being long commodities and currencies (such as the Chinese yuan) and shorting stocks.

I wouldn't advise anybody to buy bonds, I would advise you to sell bonds," he said. "If I were a bond portfolio manager, I would get another job." "In the 70s you didn't make much money in stocks, you made fortunes owning commodities," Ro

Goldman report

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/advance-look-next-week-33-sp-market-cap-reports-earnings