Using Google Trends to analyze patterns in searches for various topics, Tarun Chitra gives his take on who, where and why people are interested in endowments, treasuries and racial unrest, particularly following the election, and what he thinks it all could mean.

Tarun Chitra takes a look at a wide range of topics this week--GLONASS, OPEC, Yahoo!, Iceland, escapism, late-night comics and Diwali, which, incidentially, spell out "Go Yield!" in response to the American bond markets' relative resistance to global changes and increase in money markets.

Recession. Evangelical. Abortion. Large Hadron Collider. What do these words have to do with each other (outside of the triviality the word “real” is spelled using the first letter of each word?) Sure, words have been tossed about in the news of late, but what does the world’s largest (and non-functional at the moment) particle accelerator have to do with “hot button” political buzz-words? Absolutely nothing. And that’s precisely the point.