Availability of timely data is at the core of effective financial and economic analysis. The Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED) provides a vast array of economic time series via an intuitive graphical interface. If you want to get a read on the U.S. economy, FRED is an outstanding resource. The ability to quickly create customized charts makes it quick and easy to examine a wide range of data. In this article, I am going to show a number of these charts, while exploring the overall economic U.S. economic picture. (more…)
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The State of the Economy
Posted in Asset Allocation, Bonds, Inflation, Retirement, tagged bond yields, Consumer Price Index, Federal Reserve Economic Database, labor participation rate, recession, Treasury bonds, unemployment, unemployment rates, US economy on December 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Unemployment: Part of the Economic Cycle or Secular Shift?
Posted in financial planning, Market Outlook, tagged american consumers, Bob Huebscher, China, economic recovery, economy, minimum wage, Mohamed El-Erian, outsourcing jobs, persistent unemployment, unemployment, unemployment levels, unemployment rates on October 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Bob Huebscher just published an outstanding article on the sustained high level of unemployment in the United States. The question that he seeks to address is whether we are in the recovery phase of a major recession or we are actually in the midst of a long-term shift in the economy. The article calls these two possible explanations ‘cyclical’ and ‘structural.’ It is worth understanding the key factors that have resulted in the current persistent unemployment levels in order to put the recent modest reduction in unemployment into context. Are we seeing signs of the long-awaited recovery that will bring us back to full employment or is the recent growth in employment simply variability around a long-term shift in the U.S. economy in which unemployment will remain well-above historical levels? (more…)
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