April 20, 2009
Slate has an interactive map which illustrates job losses by county throughout the US over the last two years. It's very sobering to watch the red circles (representing losses) explode in late 2008.
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April 20, 2009
It's hard to believe FT Alphaville is taking this seriously, but they are: markets and sunspot cycles. Apparantly, as this very convincing graph shows, recessions correspond with the regular sunspot cycle: As this plainly demonstrates, there is a perfect correlation with sunspots and recessions. Except for that little recession in the 1930's, but that one doesn't count, [...]
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