Slightly Optimistic European Stats

September Oil Production

Peak Supermajor was in 2005?

Oil Production of the Top Three IOCs

Steve Jobs

This doesn't have much to do with the theme of this blog but, Ah Shit.  I've personally been using Steve Jobs computers since I bought a NeXT Station and laster printer in 1991 with $10k of my fellowship money in grad school.  I still have it: last time I checked, it still worked. Except for a couple of brief unhappy intervals when I was obliged to use Windows systems, I've been immersed long hours every day in Steve Jobs approved environments ever since.  It's impossible not to grieve his passing, and copiously.  He has almost single-handedly stood for the idea that technological devices should also be an artistic and harmonious fit with the human psyche.  He was the world's greatest product manager.

It isn't going to be the same without him.

Eurozone Retail Spending Down Again in August

The Saudi Budgetary Constraint on Oil Prices

State of the Blog, Q3 2011

August European Unemployment

2011 Corn and Soybean Yields

Food Prices Still Elevated

Do Stock Market Declines Predict Recessions?

US Initial Claims Data

Chinese PMI

Eurozone PMI

Here's the key graph from the Markit PMI press release.  This is from their survey of Purchase Managers in September so provides a more real time indicator than official indicators.  That's certainly not an encouraging reading at all.

European Industrial Production

Per Capita Oil Consumption Around the World

Peak Oil Per Capita

Eurozone Labor Costs

Global Market Capitalization