Economy
Tracking The Stimulus
The website Recovery.org is an excellent site to track the status of the stimulus spending. Recovery.org is brought to us by Onvia.com and appears to be a public service tool that coincidentally also highlights the sort of services Onvia provides. The graph below was pulled from their website in late June/early July and so... »
Has the Economy ‘Turned a Corner’?
Are we pulling out of this recession? Economists are beginning to make comments to the effect of “the numbers we see indicate that things are improving”, but they do not show these numbers. These economists (and their interviewers) are content with merely reporting their interpretation. They are not interested in displaying the underlying reasons... »
THE Unemployment Rate – Conclusion
In the 3rd and final article in this series we’ll examine the national unemployment rate by various demographic factors. Earlier we had seen how widely the unemployment rate varied by state and yet while all states have had increases in unemployment rates since this recession started, many states are showing signs of a leveling... »
THE Unemployment Rate (part 2)
The national unemployment rate is about as useful a number in a nation as large as the United States as a national traffic report would be. In this series of articles we’re going to peel back the layers on THE unemployment rate in an attempt to get a number that’s a little more useful.... »
THE Unemployment Rate (part 1)
The United States is the 3rd largest country in the world by population. With a population of about 300 million people it is only slightly smaller than the populations of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain combined, which according to the Wikipedia article above, is about 314 million. Because of this, whenever... »
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