By The Tim on December 27, 2009
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Posted in Polls | Tagged depression, Economy, Polls, recession
By The Tim on November 4, 2009
A reader wrote in requesting an update to this February post, in which I criticized Nancy Pelosi’s misleading chart of job losses.
Here’s an update to the post-WWII job loss chart, courtesy of Calculated Risk, in which I’ve added a mark so you can see where the “stimulus” was passed.
Wow, good thing we changed direction to [...]
Posted in Opinion, Statistics | Tagged depression, Jobs, recession, unemployment
By The Tim on May 24, 2009
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Posted in Polls | Tagged depression, government_meddling, Polls
By The Tim on February 28, 2009
Great visualization of the mess we’re in.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Posted in Audio & Video | Tagged credit, depression, recession, video
By The Tim on February 11, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently posted an alarming chart of job losses that has been making the rounds.
What jumps out to me when I look at her chart is the fact that the y-axis shows raw number of jobs rather than a percentage loss, and therefore fails to account for the increased size of the [...]
Posted in Statistics | Tagged depression, Dow Jones, Jobs, recession, Stock Market, unemployment
By The Tim on February 4, 2009
I read a great post today over at Behavior Gap (thanks to an email from J.D. @ Get Rich Slowly) that is definitely worth sharing:
The Great Reset
A recent New York Times headline read:
“Consumers Increase Savings While Spending Less”
That sounds like a GOOD thing doesn’t it?
It used to be that savings and thrift were basic, core, [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged depression, Economy, recession
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