Morning Journal---Tuesday Morning Humor

Economics

   This Week’s Data

            The January small business confidence index rose to 94.1 versus expectations of 93.4.

   Other

            JP Morgan sued, again (medium):

            http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-10/jpmorgan-sued-crony-justice-presenting-decade-illegal-conduct-jp-morgan-chase

Politics

  Domestic

Tuesday morning humor.  This is the cutest thing I have ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmWa1gKrp6Q

Reasons to be optimistic (short):

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/02/a-message-from-matt-ridley-dare-to-be-an-optimist/

I missed this---the second reason the CBO report on Obamacare is important (short):

http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-cbo-bombshell.html

Crawfishing on Obamacare (medium):

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-10/there-it-obamacare-employer-mandate-delayed-companies-under-100-employees

The extension of executive power (medium and a must read):

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-10/ron-paul-rages-will-no-one-challenge-obama%E2%80%99s-executive-orders

  International

            Rising stress in the eurobanks (medium):

            http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/whatever-dont-pay-attention-rising-eurozone-stresses.html