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Job losses and consumer spending
Is the past prelude? Here’s a comparison of job losses in all the post-WW2 recessions. Note how bad the slope is for the current recession. Be careful though, these are absolute numbers and not...
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Job losses as a percent of peak
Ah, here’s the version normalized to the peak employment level before recession a started. From calculatedriskblog.com:
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Top 10 Bear Stearns & Lehman execs made $2.4 billion
The top five executives at Bear Stearns and the top five at Lehman made $2.4 billion from 2000-2008. The popular imagining was they suffered financially with the collapse of their firms. The reality is...
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Unemployment
Here’s is Calculated Risk’s version of the scariest chart. It shows the change in employment as a percent since the peak employment near the beginning of the recession; for this recession, that’s Dec...
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Who can live here?
Here is similar data to to the Interactive Census Data but with a little more Manhattan orientation. The interactive chart let’s you look at different neighborhoods and shows the income distribution....
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Inflation
From Calculated Risk is this graph of inflation. You can see the slight, recent, upturn. It is important to see the context: we are still way below “normal” levels and unemployment is still way above...
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