Hearing of enthusiastic property development plans for the world's tallest building? Then dust off, perhaps, an old but maybe not so tongue-in-cheek leading indicator...The 92 metre Masonic Temple, Chicago. Completed in 1892 shortly after the largest quarterly contraction of [...]



Contrary to earlier reports from some Dubai government related entities, notably 31.2% publicly owned Emaar Properties whose tallest-in-the-world handy work is pictured below, it not only seemed a bad idea at the time. 

From the Economist. Possibly not the antidote it might be for equities soaring on the back of massive public sector mortgages but interesting. Click the image to go there and see it in action:
Have a good one:
Many interesting pics out moments ago from the Federal Reserve in the snappily titled report,
...released today:
A little chart from SG to chew over whilst waiting for this afternoon's US National Association of Realtors (NAR) existing home sales data:
Since that story
It must be Friday:
(*HT to an anonymous commenter at FT Alphaville for the adaptation)
Via Global Finance magazine (
Barclays sponsoring reports on bank capital quality? From today's Wall Street Journal front page website - click for larger image to read the "Heard On The Street" tag in full:
Couple of tag clouds of the 

From the New York Times - click to visit this piece of timely and clever creativity:

Via Reuters 

Entertaining crib sheet from Rolling Stone called the 


The Plan (via 
Nice little tour d'horizon from the perennially lucid Lloyd's Chief Economist Trevor Williams in this week's note "
The US Conference Board 
Fabulous interactive charts from Dutch daily 

Last week the Le Monde graphic on job losses featured 




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One of the gems of net-borne financial journalism is the FT's 