Graph-of-the-Year Candidates
Donald Marron likes European interest rates. Click on the image to get a bigger version. Can you find three distinct subperiods?
Brad DeLong favors the U.S. gdp gap.
Finally, it's hard to argue against the payroll employment graph below (straight from FRED) and the comparison across recessions (courtesy of Calculated Risk).
Looking Up At 2001
In February 2001, U.S. payroll employment peaked at 132.5 million. The November 2011 figure of 131.7 million still falls 800,000 jobs short of the earlier peak.
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November Payroll Employment
Remember M1?
Money Supply M1 growth is now over 20% per year over a 12 month lag. M1 growth has touched 20% before, but not with excess reserves of $1.6 trillion. Where is M1 headed?
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February 21, 2011, 4:46 am, 824984
Just as many Tories were becoming fed up with Cameron, our PM has done three things that should put smiles on their faces.
First, he gave the green light to backbenchers to vote down a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, by allowing a free vote. This, I can ...
February 17, 2011, 8:45 am, 823822
Picture the scene. The Chief Operating Officer of a major asset management firm gets so wound up by European regulators that he decides, in a personal capacity, to call for EU withdrawal. He mentions this to other members of his board, who recoil with horror and forbid him from opening ...
February 15, 2011, 2:45 pm, 823031
I don’t know about you, but I have lost all faith in the Bank of England. The economists on the its Monetary Policy Committee act like modern witch doctors, who think that if they examine enough graphs and perform the right computer modelling, they can manage inflation and smooth out ...
February 11, 2011, 4:46 am, 821500
I hate to attack someone as fascinating as Donald Trump, but this is one billionaire who should be kept out of the White House at all costs. Getting into that building seems to be his objective, according to American commentators who have noticed his surprise appearance at yesterday’s Conservative Political ...
January 27, 2011, 2:45 pm, 815873
There’s something seriously broken about the European Union’s competition department, which seems more motivated by jealousy of American companies than helping consumers. It has now forced Intel, which last year announced the takeover of an anti-virus company, to keep its computer chipsets “open” to rivals’ anti-virus software.
Eurocrats are spinning this ...
January 26, 2011, 12:45 pm, 815257
This is one of the most shockingly wasteful acts by a British government in history. The Coalition has started to chop the wings off nine brand-new Nimrod jets, which cost £445 million each to build and have never seen active service. And the decision threatens our national security: because there ...
January 26, 2011, 6:45 am, 815086
Given how little British bureaucrats and our front-bench-seeking politicians take notice of the public, I’d welcome almost any tool with which to harangue them. And there’s one that some of our American cousins are using that I’d love to see imported into Britain.
DIY Democracy is an iPhone app lets Americans hit back against ...
January 24, 2011, 12:45 pm, 814229
“To be born an Englishman,” Cecil Rhodes once claimed, “is to win first prize in the lottery of life.” These days, Mark Steyn says the prize goes to Americans, and whenever I think of Westminster, I can’t help thinking he might be on to something.
Our supposedly centre-Right Government supports a ...
January 13, 2011, 4:46 am, 809082
I was having a beer with Nigel Farage recently when he came out with a most remarkable statement. “UKIP,” he declared, “will win the next European election.”
Win? Win? Certainly, like most Conservatives, I’d love a UKIP victory if it gives us some chance of ending our disastrous membership of the ...
January 11, 2011, 2:46 pm, 808433
Here’s some news that’s guaranteed to upset the Eurocrats. A just-retired European auditor, Maarten Engwirda, has denounced the European Commission. Speaking to a Dutch newspaper, he alleges that the Court of Auditors were pressured into “watering down” their criticism of the EU’s accounts and says there was a “culture of ...
