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About like any other exponential growth pattern. It’d be like plotting the U.S. population, or the amount of written knowledge. Anything that doubles every fixed unit of time will always look like an explosion on a linear plot.

[expat_panama]

Good morning!   Hope you all had a great 3-day weekend --the futures markets are pointing to a great beginning for our short-week with  Metals +0.42 and Stock Indexes +0.13%.   Only major report is NAHB Housing Market Index at a half hour past opening bell.  Sooo much has been happening related threads:

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• 27 Facts That Show How The Middle Class Has Fared Under 6 Years Of Barack Obama
• 50,000 Wall Street jobs cut [There’s blood on the Street]
• Why Wages Lag Employment Recovery (h/t CutePuppy)
• Poll: Rising economy boosts Obama’s standing on eve of the State of the Union
• China Cities Signal Property Crash By Halting Apartment Sales
• Uber Wants to Create 50,000 Jobs, Take 400,000 Cars Off the Road in Europe This Year
• Middle class decline looms over final years of Obama presidency
• ALCO stores closing across state, nation