What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[VaticanAssassin]

That's the website's main page. Where specifically did you find your numbers? I'm genuinely curious.

From here pick what you want to see and then you can customize the output and range....


http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln

Life here is a graph of discouraged workers...http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/LNU05026645_8853_1336400778626.gif

Or here is the unemployment level for college and above...

http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/LNS14027662_8948_1336400885901.gif

 

[richard_daily]

From here pick what you want to see and then you can customize the output and range....


http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln

Life here is a graph of discouraged workers...http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/LNU05026645_8853_1336400778626.gif

Or here is the unemployment level for college and above...

http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/LNS14027662_8948_1336400885901.gif

Why are you leaving out the Reagan years?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Why are you leaving out the Reagan years?

Because for this two random areas I picked, the data does not go back that far....but please go look for yourself, you know what they say about assumptions right?

 

[koalabear]

Blame Reagan

Stocks drop on French, Greek votes

 

[RobDownSouth]

I've never predicted the end of the world.*

I have predicted accurately the direction of the economy; a flat line.

LOL....revisionism at its finest.

You're the one in denial over that particular aspect of reality and like merc, dick, throb and all the others, you were convinced that the National Democratic Socialist Party was going to show those evil NAZI Republicans a thing or two about how to run an eceonomy that wins the war on poverty, enriches the middle class and puts the rich in their proper and humble place...

Still more revisionism! And thanks for the straw man ascription too!

Small wonder you were deemed unfit to adopt American children!.

 

[mercury14]

I have predicted accurately the direction of the economy; a flat line.

A flat-out lie on your part.

The total opposite is true. Shall we list them again?

 

[benschup]

Do any of you people have real jobs? Just wondering

 

[mercury14]

Do any of you people have real jobs? Just wondering

Wanna buy some Tupperware products?

 

[mercury14]

Well, another observation is playing out.

The Socialists retook France, world markets are collapsing, oil is dropping, the hands out for handouts crowd is, like Obama, going to war against "the rich" and they mean to crash Europe in order to have free stuff.

It's a "global" economy and they're going to demand that Germany and the US support their lifestyle and if we don't, they'll happily bankrupt us in order to teach us a lesson about greed.

Which world market is collapsing?

Dow -.08% 13,026
NASDAQ +.17%
S&P: +.15%

Is that "another" observation that's playing out? This is the kind of prediction you're choosing to hang your hat on?

 

[richard_daily]

Which world market is collapsing?

Dow -.08%
NASDAQ +.17%
S&P: +.15%

Is that "another" observation that's playing out? This is the kind of prediction you're choosing to hang your hat on?

The world market in AJs head.

 

[richard_daily]

Because for this two random areas I picked, the data does not go back that far....but please go look for yourself, you know what they say about assumptions right?

Fair enough. I apologize.

I have looked on the site before, and the data goes back much further in some areas, I didn't realize that it didn't in this one.

 

[mercury14]

The world market in AJs head.

This is one of his "correct" predictions though?

 

[islandman]

I have some thought on how to further kickstart the economy.

It relies on logic though. That might be too high-brow for this crowd.

 

[richard_daily]

This is one of his "correct" predictions though?

It's in his head... ALL of his predictions are correct in there.

Out here in the real world, not so much.

 

[mercury14]

I have some thought on how to further kickstart the economy.

It relies on logic though. That might be too high-brow for this crowd.

Iggy.

 

[richard_daily]

Iggy.

RACIST!

 

[benschup]

Wanna buy some Tupperware products?

Trade for Mary Kay ?

 

[phrodeau]

http://data.moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/chrtsrv.dll?symbol=%24US%3AINDU&width=298&height=160&c1=3&ce=0&cf=0&d2=0&d3=0&d4=1&d5=0&e8=1&legend=0&banner=5&af=2&palette=2

Stocks drop on French, Greek votes

Was it French first and Greek second, or Greek first and French second?

 

[busybody..]

NIGGERZ call THIS a good economy

Must be cause they are NIGGERZ


What Will We Call 2011 or 2012?


By Victor Davis Hanson

May 7, 2012 1:50 P.M.


Summing up a yearly economy depends a lot on the media. The three most recent setbacks for the Republicans were perhaps the years 1992, 2006, and 2008. In 1992 — the dismal year of “It’s the Economy, Stupid,” the “worst recession since the Great Depression,” and the Bush I defeat, to take a few examples — the unemployment rate ended at 7.5 percent, the GDP growth rate was 3.4 percent, the budget deficit was $290 billion (unadjusted dollars), and gas averaged $1.13 a gallon (unadjusted dollars). In 2006, the year of the Republican “shellacking,” and general unhappiness over Iraq and the economy, the unemployment rate was 4.5 percent, the GDP growth rate was 3.5 percent, the federal budget deficit was $248 billion (unadjusted), and gas was $2.59 a gallon (unadjusted). In 2008, the last full year of the Bush presidency, marked by the Wall Street meltdown of mid-September, the unemployment rate for the year ended at 5.8 percent, the 2008 GDP growth rate, including the post-September months, was 1.1 percent, the budget deficit ended at $438 billion (unadjusted), and gas averaged for the year was $3.31 a gallon (unadjusted).

Now the quarterly unemployment rate is 8.1 percent, the GDP growth rate is at 1.7 percent, the deficit in 2011 was $1.3 trillion, and average gas prices last week, after a slide, were $3.83 per gallon. There are all sorts of bad months, recessions, meltdowns, etc. that warp these yearly figures, but my point is only one of perception: When the economy goes south, sometimes we hear the words “worst,” “Great Depression,” “jobless recovery,” and at other times of stagnation we don’t. If in 1992, 2006, and 2008 the issues were poor Republican stewardship of the economy, what will they be in 2012?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

http://www.conversationpieces.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/4876380604_4c9a0bb6dd_z.jpg

 

[RobDownSouth]

This is one of his "correct" predictions though?

Per AJ, his predictions are always correct, even when they aren't. Conversely, his detractors' predictions are always wrong, even when they aren't.

So when AJ said we were heading for a depression and everyone else was predicting a recovery, it was a simple matter of semantics for AJ to re-frame the argument: With just a pinch of revisionism dust, AJ shifts the goalposts just a bit and now claims he predicted a "flat line recovery" and his detractors now predicted a "robust expansion".

This very simple revision allows AJ to claim victory once again! DERP!

 

[mercury14]

Per AJ, his predictions are always correct, even when they aren't. Conversely, his detractors' predictions are always wrong, even when they aren't.

So when AJ said we were heading for a depression and everyone else was predicting a recovery, it was a simple matter of semantics for AJ to re-frame the argument: With just a pinch of revisionism dust, AJ shifts the goalposts just a bit and now claims he predicted a "flat line recovery" and his detractors now predicted a "robust expansion".

This very simple revision allows AJ to claim victory once again! DERP!

He predicted three double dip recessions. And he was somehow right on all counts!

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

He predicted three double dip recessions. And he was somehow right on all counts!

Just you wait, when the next recession hits, there's bound to be another eventually. I mean the GOP is going to get hold of the purse strings again some day.

If the old Cap'n hasn't keeled over from alcohol poisoning he'll be right here boasting about how right he was.

 

[mercury14]

Just you wait, when the next recession hits, there's bound to be another eventually. I mean the GOP is going to get hold of the purse strings again some day.

If the old Cap'n hasn't keeled over from alcohol poisoning he'll be right here boasting about how right he was.

Then he'll explain to us how a quadruple-dip recession can actually span thirty years so he's right.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Then he'll explain to us how a quadruple-dip recession can actually span thirty years so he's right.

Just you wait, when the next recession hits, there's bound to be another eventually. I mean the GOP is going to get hold of the purse strings again some day.

If the old Cap'n hasn't keeled over from alcohol poisoning he'll be right here boasting about how right he was.

some day you dip shits can participate in the real world by doing big boy things. i.e. jobs and buying a home