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 3, 2012, 5:33 pm, 948190
Readers respond to a post about anticapitalist sections of the bible with some other examples.
February 3, 2012, 1:33 pm, 948139
A look at how far the United States economy has to go before it fully recovers from the Great Recession.
February 3, 2012, 11:33 am, 948106
This is a recovery led by the private sector. And while seasonal adjustments may have made January look better than it really was, job growth appears strong.
February 3, 2012, 7:33 am, 948044
The opacity surrounding health care prices and the practice of charging different buyers different prices for identical goods or services contribute mightily to the cost of health care, but at the least the former may be on the way out, an economist writes.
February 2, 2012, 7:33 pm, 947997
The economic pie is growing, but the share going to American workers is at an all-time low. Friday's jobs report will help determine whether American workers will finally start getting a bigger cut.
February 2, 2012, 3:33 pm, 947953
A rabbi, writing in The Wall Street Journal, argues that the Bible is pro-capitalist. But there are plenty of anti-free-market and anti-capitalist ideas in the Scriptures, too.
February 2, 2012, 11:33 am, 947894
A new study suggests that receiving food aid from the United States increases the likelihood of civil conflict.
February 2, 2012, 5:33 am, 947825
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has taken some good first steps to regulating the biggest banks, and what's more, it's doing so in public, an economist writes.
February 1, 2012, 7:33 pm, 947791
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the country will add 5.6 million health care and social assistance jobs in the current decade.
February 1, 2012, 5:33 pm, 947760
An advisory committee is urging that investors be allowed to pay the government for the privilege of lending it money.
