Showing posts with label Recession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recession. Show all posts
Sunday, September 06, 2009

Recession perhaps not over

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Last month, as the unemployment rate took a reprieve from its upward spike, I speculated that the recession might be over . Friday's rel...
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Friday, August 07, 2009

The recession is ending; may be over

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The number of new job losses continues to decline. Compare these U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics job loss numbers with the numbers from Aut...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

July 2009 ADP employment report numbers

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Source: Automatic Data Processing, Inc. It looks like the recession is slowly ending, but it will still take a while. Note that job gains ne...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

"We needed a recession"

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Thoughts from Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron: By the end of 2005, it should have been apparent that the U.S. economy was fundamentally misa...
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Friday, July 10, 2009

The recession is slowing household formation

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The Washington Post points out the effect the recession is having on household formation: The number of people setting up their own househo...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

A look at key economic indicators

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Here is a look a several important leading and coincident economic indicators. Leading indicators help forecast the future of the economy se...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Bernanke's recovery prediction: Journalists report old news

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Apparently more journalists watch 60 Minutes than watch Congressional testimony. Today, the mainstream and financial media has been making ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Graph: United States unemployment rate since 1948

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Here is a better graph than Saturday's, straight from the St. Louis Fed , the U.S. unemployment rate since 1948. (A similar BLS graph is...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

This recession's chain of economic events

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Click on the image to see it full size. Here is a little diagram I drew to point out the chain of events that is occurring in our current re...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Government deserves much blame for the financial crisis

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Stanford University economics professor John Taylor says the government bears a lot of responsibility for the housing bubble and the resulti...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Fifteen companies that may go under this year

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From Yahoo! Finance : Rite Aid. This drugstore chain tried to boost its performance by acquiring competitors Brooks and Eckerd in 2007. But...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

CNN Video: Lessons from the Great Depression

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I can't embed videos from CNN/Money, but here is a video discussing lessons from the Great Depression . A key quote from the video: The ...
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Saturday, February 07, 2009

Japan as an example of Keynesian fiscal stimulus

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From The New York Times : Japan’s rural areas have been paved over and filled in with roads, dams and other big infrastructure projects, the...
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How Republicans view the stimulus package

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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

U.S. officially in recession

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I'm sure you've all heard this by now: The United States is officially in a recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research—a pr...
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