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Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
More economics graphs
Just a quick follow-up on my flurry of economic posts: USA Today has a well-done interactive set of three graphs, done by Moody's Economy, showing different aspects of their job-growth forcast, broken out by job sector:
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Unemployment and recession comparisons
There's a nice pair of posts over at Time Magazine's Swampland blog, starting with this graph from Speaker Pelosi's office:
which commits the endlessly recurring error of not taking into account the change in population. I had this on my to-blog queue, but they got enough comments that their economic commentor, Justin Fox, came up with a version that uses the appropriate percentages, instead of raw numbers:

It's still ugly, but no where near as extreme as the original version was. Of course, we still don't know where that pale blue line is going...
It's still ugly, but no where near as extreme as the original version was. Of course, we still don't know where that pale blue line is going...
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