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Grade The Recessiovery
Here, for your comparative studies analytical viewing pleasure, is the current recession recovery in context. Across activity indicators, consumer behavior, labor market developments, and housing & construction, there is a little here for everyone. From vehicle sales to disposable income and from durable goods to industrial production, it seems grading this economy's performance is a matter of 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'.
Extra Credit:
- Can you spot the government-sponsored segment of the economy?
- Compare and Contrast Unemployment Rate and Initial Claims with average hours worked and ISM employment.
- Grade the housing recovery.
Each chart compares the current business cycle with four prior ones: the mild recession/recovery episodes of 1991 and 2001 and the deep V-shaped cycles of 1973 and 1981.
As always, we suspect, we see what we want to see - but here is the chart extravaganza comparing the current to the previous...

Charts: Barclays
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Are those vehical sales actual sales or sales to dealerships?
Dude....one doesn't ask those3 questions because they don't matter...they are called SALES....got it Comrade?
Now get back to the plow...
Something's not quite right with this line.
I think you meant to say "ungoods."
In other news, here's the only chart that Benron understands.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/128271.html
Figure 10: "Vehicle Sales/Current"
Translation: channel stuffing.
Okay, what is the door prize ?
Same charts as when the Bolsheiviks took power in 1940s Russia. Old news....next !
1918...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution
Oh so very insightful...
Did you just graduate from a Community College? How is that student loan treating you?
Can we talk about the price discovery process or do we have to slog thru Russian history?
What page are you on in War and Peace?
You're welcome. Bolsheviks; Lennin, Trotsky, et al, fronts for the Banksters. Put on the train(s) to the east by the Kasier's agents. Peace.
No debt slave here, thank you very much.
Hello? No price discovery here in an oligarchal (fascist/socialist) collectivist paradigm that we are now in. Read Ludwig Von Mises' Socialism and Human Action for starters. That is the point.
Lenin, Trotsky, Marx... Jews... Another historical stastistical abberation... Poor dumb hardworking fucks who could never catch an honest break in the world...
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Cue the 'junks' & 'RE-DIRECT' soapsuds towards 'Ashkenazi-ism' & 'Zionism' in order to 'accurately & properly'' sterelize everything for the records & for future viewing...
i think ZH should dedicate all its content tomorrow in the honor of the birth of the honored one--chairman ben bernanke
oops, my bad, he was hatched/created 59 years ago today
spawned......
you mean he was monetized into existence
".....it seems grading this economy's performance is a matter of 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'."
I see dead people a dying economy.
<"Bubbles" Ben to the ER stat.>
I have to grade the economy B, and E for BEN.
It's the BEN economy stupid.
Buy, Everything, Now!
Breaking Economies Nightly
It is what happens in 2013 that will set the seal on these charts. It will be a miracle if it makes the current cycle look good.
forever green across the board ...
I give it a "C" as in "C for Corporate Communism"
How about F- ??
For those of you who are new this site it means: Discover your maker, buy food, buy guns, buy ammo, keep debt low and or extinct in an effort to achieve self reliance and flexibility, boost reserves (gold to cash ratio) and explore your exit from city life to country life and it's timeline to horizon. Self reliance means you fill in the gaps to suit you and your families lifestyle and unique needs. Lastly, step on the gas.
Odly, what I mentioned above has been the rule to a happy life from the begining. No ONE can argue it's simplicity or truth to a free man. All those who do are liars, cheats, thieves, and wrong doers no matter what the economic conditions are.
So indelicate. Both my makers have died, not that YOU'D care!
Note how the consumer metric are adjusted for inflation and tell a much different story than what we hear on the MSM everyday. The dollar doesn't stretch as far as it used to and people ain't buying what they used to.
But there´s positive news! Airasia has just placed an order for another 100 A320 commercial airliners worth $9.3bn...With Airbus.
Trololol.
Real GDP - lulz
Do those numbers count the seasonal adjustments that were in effect miraculous compared to the actual underlying data? Like the first ever statistical adds for several months in 2012 to help The Great O get re-elected. Do the charts count channel stuffing?
When you remove the government stimulus, the CFOs doing their best Iron Chef impersonations, the union helping GM channel stuffing, and the BLS data fudging, the graphs hit the bottom and never went back up.
This is not a recession! It's a depression!
Since the premise is that the current recession is distinct, rather than a continuation of the 2001 one, I guess that means we need to blow another bubble. That is the solution, right?
Too much variability in the integrity of these data to draw a conclusion from the charts. But meta-analysis is possible, since this truth by itself is enough information to draw the necessary inference: we are being played by the global power elite on an epic scale, and therefore fucked.
How about a chart on stuff real people actually buy like TVs, vehicles, and houses that indicates NOT the $ amount but the actual units/numbers. Many contend that dollar denominated sales are not adequately or realistically adjusted for inflation. It is not in the interest of the government to overstate inflation thus they do everything to minimize it lest the public realize they are being stealth taxed.
Given that the population of the country is still trending up, now at around 315 million, any flat or decline in the unit trend is an actual sign of recession.
In fact if you present the data, one set in units/numbers and the other set in dollars a third set could be derived showing actual inflation on per unit basis. Just saying...
I'm assuming you've already faxed these up to the white house
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