This is the one year change in unemployment for May 2009. Some of it makes sense [Michigan and the Auto Industry]. But some of it escapes me. For example: Why are South Carolina and Alabama so much worse off than Mississippi and Georgia? I haven’t a clue…
I am pleased with my vote…
U.S. housing recovery seen possible now: Shiller By Mary Angela Rowe Jul 28, 2009 The U.S. housing market may finally have turned around after three years, given the rise in the widely-watched Case-Shiller home price index for May, the developers of the index told Reuters on Tuesday. The Case-Shiller home price index for May posted […]
I haven’t been consistent in the way I’ve displayed these figures. So I asked myself, "What would Nate do?" [Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight]. Since the Gross Domestic Product and the Consumer Price Index are always on the rise, people use the "percent change since the last period" as a way of leveling out the figures […]
Why does John Bolton hate journalists? at-Largely by Larisa Alexandrovna August 05, 2009 FYI, from one of the Neo-Con cabal, John Bolton [our form UN envoy who was laughed at the world over]. Remember, this penned garbage is from a man who thinks diplomacy involves a bomb and the United Nations should be destroyed. Keep […]
Major Meltdown the left coaster by Turkana August 8, 2009 From the U.S. Geological Survey, this is Washington’s benchmark South Cascade Glacier, in 1928 and 2000: And in 1979 and 2003: And here is USGS data on Alaska’s benchmark Gulkana Glacier and Wolverine Glacier. As CNN reports: U.S. scientists monitoring shrinking glaciers in Washington and […]
As Economy Turns, Washington Looks Better New York Times By DAVID LEONHARDT August 7, 2009 WASHINGTON — What if in the end they got it right? What if, amid all their missteps and all the harsh criticism, the people in charge of battling the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — Ben Bernanke, Timothy […]
We couldn’t expect any better news than this. Earlier in the week, I set these criteria [fitting the figure on the right]: > 10.0% = uh oh! 9.5% – 9.9% = wait until next month < 9.4% = out of the woods! In looking back over the historical data, there are examples of a one […]
MONTH JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC QUARTER i ii iii iv 2005 CPI 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.7 -0.1 0.1 0.5 0.5 1.2 0.2 -0.8 -0.4 GDP 4.1 1.7 3.1 2.1 2006 CPI 0.8 0.2 0.6 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.2 -0.5 -0.5 -0.1 0.1 GDP […]
When the Recession became apparent in September of last year, I felt blind-sided. I was preoccupied with the coming Presidential Eection, and the wealth of information coming out about the Bush Administration [confirming what we’d been speculating about all along]. For a time, I found myself getting up to speed on things I knew nothing […]