Showing posts with label Great Recession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Recession. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2019

15/4/19: One order of "Bull & Sh*t" for the U.S. Labor Market, please

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The 'strongest economy, ever'... Despite a decade-long experiment with record-low interest rates, despite trillions of dollar...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

31/7/18: 65 years of profligacy and few more yet to come: U.S. Government Deficits

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The history and the future of the U.S. Federal Government deficits in one chart: Which shows, amongst other things, that The post-...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

14/7/18: Elephants. China Shop, Enters a Mouse: Global Debt Bubble

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Bank for International Settlements Annual Report for 2018 has a very interesting set of charts covering the growing global debt bubble, on...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

15/518: Four macro charts that explain Trumpvolution

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The current growth cycle has been the second longest on record: Source: FactSet But it has been much shallower than the previous cyc...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

15/8/17: A Great Recovery or a Great Stagnation?

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Value-added is one measure of economic activity that links the production side to consumption/ demand side (using inputs of say $X value t...
Friday, August 4, 2017

3/8/17: New research: the Great Recession is still with us

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Here is the most important chart I have seen in some months now. The chart shows the 'new normal' post-2007 crisis in terms of per...
Friday, July 28, 2017

28/7/17: Long term U.S. growth trend is still weak: 2Q 2017 Update

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U.S. GDP growth estimate for 2Q 2017 came in at 2.6%, matching the post-1948 trend for expansionary periods almost to the notch. The probl...
Monday, January 2, 2017

2/1/17: U.S. Unemployment Duration is Still Record-Busting

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Throughout recent years, the recovery meme, played across the mainstream media in the U.S. has provided endless support to President Obama...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

12/4/16: Look, Ma... It's [not] Working: IMF & the R-word

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A handy chart from the IMF highlighting changes over the last 12 months in forecast probability of recession 12mo forward across the globa...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

17/9/15: That 'Lost Decade' Meme... U.S. Median Incomes

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The common memes in the media today are: U.S. economic recovery from the crisis is complete and is well ahead of that of the euro area; ...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

5/9/15: Updating America's Scariest Chart

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As you know I rarely post on the U.S. economy. But recently I was updating a presentation involving the state of financial flows for retai...
Friday, August 29, 2014

29/8/2014: Stability... of Negative Growth: Euro Area in Historical Perspective

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Washington Post has a nifty chart plotting the demise of Europe... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/20/worse-than-t...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

24/6/2014: US Productivity Slowdown: It's Structural & Nasty

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"Productivity and Potential Output Before, During, and After the Great Recession" a new paper by John Fernald (NBER Working Pape...
Friday, June 20, 2014

20/6/2014: Household Disposable Income: Great Recession 2007-2011

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Excellently spotted by @stephenkinsella - a chart from The Economist blog mapping changes in disposable incomes across a set of advanced e...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

11/1/2014: Don't mention the 'D' word in the Eurozone, yet...

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Bloomberg this week published a note analysing the GDP performance of the euro area countries during the Great Depression and the Great Re...

11/1/2014: US Jobs Losses & Some Bad Omens for Europe...

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Via @calculatedrisk blog, we have an updated chart comparing jobs destruction in the US for the Great Recession against the previous downtu...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

22/9/2013: Two articles on the Great Recession

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Two recent posts on the Great Recession in the US worth reading: http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug13/recession-never-ended8-13.html and ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

8/13/2013: Sunday Times, August 11: Wither Middle Ireland

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from August 11, 2013. Recent data from Irish retailers, aggregate services indi...
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13/8/2013: UK Great Recession

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An interesting chart comparing the historical recessions in the UK to the current one: Source:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10613201 ...
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Friday, July 5, 2013

5/7/2012: Epically scary chart

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Via Calculated Risk : Basically, since 1981 recession, duration of the subsequent jobs losses has been longer and longer and longer. T...
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