From the monthly archives:
Screenshot from a New York Times Interactive Graphic How This Bear Market Compares by Amanda Cox, XaquÃn G.V. and David Leonhardt that shows the percentage drop in the S&P 500 during the last 12 bear markets. The current market drop is highlighted in red, while the drop after 1929 is highlighted in orange.
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[tags]United States, S&P 500, Bear Markets[/tags]
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A graph suggested by a reader, Chuck Beach, pointing out the historical high of the ratio of two measurements of the Money Supply M2/M1
M1 = is the narrowest measurement of the amount of money in circulation and money held in current (checking) accounts.
M2 = M1 plus money held in savings account or deposit which are not immediately available.
Data from the Federal Reserve
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From a NY Times article on Credit Swaps from February 2008. It is worth reading for its primer on credit swaps and how it predicts the events of the current credit crisis.
[tags]Credit Swaps[/tags]
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Here is a site that gives you an snapshot of the economy for the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. For example when I was born:
1971
Federal spending: $210,170,000,000
Federal debt: $408,200,000,000
Inflation: 5.7%
Unemployment: 4.9%Median Household Income: $9,028
Cost of a new home: $28,300
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06 ($0.08 as of 5/16/71)
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.18
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Screenshot from Dynamic Maps of Nonprime Mortgage Conditions in the United States New York Federal Reserve showing six month change in foreclosures: from March – August 2008.
Red – Conditions have worsened
Green – Conditions have improved
Yellow – No change (within 0.05%)
[tags]United States, Foreclosures[/tags]
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I plotted the historical spread between Effective Fed Funds rate and US 3-Month T-bills back to 1956 using the weekly average. This a companion graph to Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: September 2008
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Data from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
[tags]United States, Interest Rate, Fed Funds[/tags]
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