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The US Economy In Pictures

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Submitted by Lance Roberts of STA Wealth Management,

 

 

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Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:26 | 4120625 Pairadimes
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Expansion. You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:53 | 4120680 Oldwood
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Expansion, as in hot gas molecules moving farther apart to occupy a greater volume while not increasing in mass. We are expanding like hot air but no real growth. Its going to blow!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 21:33 | 4120973 Whoa Dammit
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As long as the people who have money can make more money off of economic contraction than they can off of real economic growth, we will have no real growth. 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:31 | 4120637 Rainman
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Affirmative action working hard in the Oval Office and the Fed ...what can possibly go wrong ?

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 20:07 | 4120707 RiverRoad
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Affirmative action run amok fer sure.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:35 | 4120643 Debeachesand Je...
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End the QE Bullshit now,and let the chips fall.

The Bullshit in this so call "expansion" will be cleared one way or another.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:37 | 4120645 j.tennquist
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This is all going to end badly. 

But the charts were lovely... no, really.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 20:07 | 4120710 RiverRoad
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It always ends badly; bank on it.  JPM does.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:52 | 4120676 NOTaREALmerican
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The charts + QE = expansion.

The charts - QE = depression.

So, 

Charts = expansion - QE
Charts = depression + QA

expansion - QE = depression + QE

expansion = depression + 2QE

 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:54 | 4120683 Oldwood
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I find your expansion depressing.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:54 | 4120681 CrashisOptimistic
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I am always bothered by charts that extend before 2008, which implies that the world is the same one that existed before 2008.

It's not.  And it never will be again.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 19:57 | 4120689 Oldwood
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Things are the same as they always have been when assuming we always have a recovery after a recession. They are only different when we are assuming that we can do the same stupid shit that has been tried countless times before that ended in failure, yet have a positive result this time. Hold my beer and watch this....

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 20:15 | 4120729 ebworthen
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Wow, where are my shades man?!

That future is so bright!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 20:22 | 4120752 RiverRoad
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You bet the economy is too weak to stand on it's own two feet.  Taper?  Fuggetaboutit.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 21:02 | 4120861 earleflorida
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trickle down just ain't workin, so lets force the fed's hand with a catch-22 fastball?   raise the minimum wage!!!

that's the talk in the country today... and, seeing that 70% of GDP is created by penniless consumers how can it hurt.

no,... they'll be able to mask inflation when the revenues come right back into ramp'd-up QEternity?(killing the taper-worm)... 

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 03:47 | 4121962 StychoKiller
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Sure, let's REALLY raise it though:  $300/hr, that way, everyone can make as much as a rocket surgeon!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 22:13 | 4121134 justsayin2u
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Looks like we're on the right track.  Keep improvin productivity until no-one but robots are employed and wait it out till the unemployed fall off benefits and when the last one is standin we have full employment and a geat econoimy!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 22:17 | 4121152 taketheredpill
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Not sure if this was already commented on, but the Employment/Population (Participation) and Jobless Claims chart is interesting.

Previous cycles saw the Jobless Claims fall as Participation recovered.  This cycle, Participation is dead in the water, flatlined since 2009, but Jobless Claims are falling.

I assume this is due to 99-week Emergency Claims finally being exhausted and people rolling off Eligibility, regardless of whether they have found jobs or not (they haven't).

It would be great if somebody could dig through the data and find a way to determine if the market excitement each Thursday morning is as pointless as the falling Unemployment Rate.

 

 

 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 22:42 | 4121224 Notarocketscientist
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The Fed will never (voluntarily) taper or stop QE.

Collapse will dictate that

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 02:56 | 4121913 OutLookingIn
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No matter how you slice it or dice it -

Things are just not what they once were. Change is inevitable.

The one constant in chaos is change. Like ying & yang, up or down, good or bad, change will occur.

Right now the current change, which had its ground zero in the crash of 07- 08, is accelerating.

There is no resolution until an equitable solution is found for most. Its either that or deepening chaos.

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 03:11 | 4121927 dunce
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There will be no change until we get a real president. This regime is not interested in our countries success. Hope and change is just recycled socialism and corruption Chicago style.

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 09:16 | 4122315 d edwards
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In reality, I'm looking for a global financial collapse.

Tue, 11/05/2013 - 04:14 | 4121988 q99x2
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You would have to adjust each of the graphs by the % increase in FRAUD for the graphs to be meaningful.

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