Tag: Economic Trends
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A year in nine pictures
Economist: A year in nine pictures THE global property bust that pulled the world into recession in 2008 began to lift in 2010. House prices turned up in Britain and stabilised in America (chart 1) but slid further in Spain. The process of deleveraging kept rich-world inflation subdued (chart 2). …
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20 bullish charts
Calfia Beach Pundit: 20 bullish charts Pessimism is rampant, and most of the articles and commentaries I see have some doom-and-gloom flavor to them; indeed, many pundits are already claiming to see a double-dip recession either in progress or as imminent. I think the "conservative" bull case—that the economy is growing at a sub-par trend…
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Forecasting the Election Based on the Economy
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Bread and peace: forecasting the election from the economy, and a question about plotting by Andrew Gelman
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What Spending Slowdown?
BusinessWeek: What Spending Slowdown? Forget those antiquated government statistics. U.S. corporate investment is booming—just take a look overseas. When is a slowdown not a slowdown? On the face of it, the government's statistics tell a very convincing story about cautious companies and weak business investment. For example, so far in 2007 new orders for nondefense…