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.
Click on the chart for a larger version.
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?
Click on the chart for a larger version.
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January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811525
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The first ever
Carnival of Investing is up at
Retire At 30. If you're interested in Carnival of the Capitalists, you may also be interested in this collection of links specific to investing. If you're interested in participating, see the original announcement of...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811527
There are no more openings in 2006 for hosting Carnival of the Capitalists. As of a short time ago, the last one, November 27, was filled. The only openings will be those that might arise when one of the scheduled hosts has a change of plans.
As noted in ...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811526
Just a reminder that this week's
Carnival of the Capitalists will be hosted at
Multiple Mentality. The cutoff officially remains the same, subject to the host being more relaxed about it. I'm guessing the post will probably go up sometime Monday, but the host ...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811524
If you would like to subscribe to the CotC mailing list, the best way to do it is to visit
this page. The list gets you an announcement sometime not long after each week's CotC is posted, with the URL. Sometimes there will be other info ...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811523
Carnival of the Vanities was the topically more generic inspiration for
Carnival of the Capitalists.
The
latest edition is up. This is also the last time
Bigwig, who...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811520
Michael Higgins of
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trip to...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811522
The January 2 edition is scheduled for
Chocolate and Gold Coins. I will let you know here if it ends up being somewhere else, which is looking possible if by no means definite. The host has hit the worry trifecta: No recent blog posts, no reply ...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811521
Don't forget that you can submit your business or economics blog, or submit another's blog that you like, for the main blogroll to the right. It's intended to be extensive, sort of a business blogs central listing if you will. The only control on it is that instead ...
January 17, 2011, 1:33 am, 811519
Chocolate and Gold Coins has
this week's CotC, with nicely laid out and detailed post descriptions.
He has good advice for hosts: Start early, it takes significant time. There are ways to speed it up, but to do a thorough, great job, it's several hours anyway.
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