Gold, Oil & Indices (Equity & Bond Indices)

Alix Steel ?@adsteel 5m

For all you nerds out there, 44% of US acres have been sown with soybeans, half of the 5 year average, beans trading above $15 @bloombergtv

uncle sam use meat as weapon against china? china is the biggest soybean importer.

never mind, i tried and found a sensible way to understand u. :P

Israel threats to bomb russian S300 squads if these should be deployed in Syria. Of course the conflict is not about rebels
it is about Gazprom. Gas from Qatar and such. And a huge comfortable biz for russian oligarchs selling weapons to Iarn Syria's Assad and the "rebels"

Thanks Ashraf, these tables are really helpful. Of course Japan's internal savers are fast running out of savings to buy new debt and their demographics are truly appalling. The US, UK, France and others have horrendous entitlements liabilities not reflected for forward projections. It would be mighty interesting to extend the comparative analysis to reflect all contingent liabilities and also add in the banks hidden liabilities. We would then be able to see how each country is failing to address their future commitments with pensions, healthcare, social security and individual demographics :-)