Economics and Investing:

This set of charts says it all: The day of reckoning for global total debt – total credit market debt up from $28 trillion in 2001 to $53 trillion in 2012.

Bob L. sent this: Richard Russell – A Bitter Pill to Swallow, Austerity or Inflation

Items from The Economatrix:

True UK Jobless “6.3 Million”

Jim Sinclair: The Lonely Road We Take Together

“Poor America” – How The Broke Are Surviving

Mortgage Settlement Will Plunge Real Estate Values