Elsewhere on Thursday,

- The slow decline in earnings expectations.

- ‘If Romney wins global trade will collapse’ and more Mish predictions.

- Talk from the retirement couch is cheap.

- BBA, This has been your weekly Libor warning. Yours, The Compilers.

- The euro as the SDR of Europe.

- Tax Loophole of the Day goes from London to Switzerland via Panama to millionaire Germans.

- Harry Reid on demanding a… Fed audit.

- Sliding into the Great Depression.

- Yield stories.

- Further, further reading.