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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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From the Association of American Railroads (AAR): AAR Reports Gains for January Rail Traffic
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported that total U.S. rail carloads originated in January 2012 totaled ...
• Summary for Week ending February 3rd
This will be a light week for economic releases. The key economic release is the December trade balance report to be released on Friday.
Also on Friday Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak to the National Association of ...
The employment report was well above expectations. There were 243,000 payroll jobs ...
Here is the unofficial problem bank list for Feb 3, 2012. (table is sortable by assets, state, etc.)
Changes and comments from surferdude808:
Quiet week for the Unofficial Bank List with ...
The Bonddad blog points out ...
Construction employment increased by 21 thousand jobs in January, after increasing by 74 thousand jobs in all of 2011. Last year was the first year with ...
From the Institute for Supply Management: December 2011 Non-Manufacturing ...
The benchmark revision increased total employment in March 2011 by ...
There were 243,000 payroll jobs added in January, with 257,000 private sector jobs added, and 14,000 government jobs lost. ...
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread in the private sector, with large employment gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, ...