measuringworth.org - 3/14/2009
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a given time period. There are two ways to measure GDP: Nominal GDP is the dollar value of production at current-year prices. For example, nominal GDP in 1990, $5,803 billion, is ...
econbrowser.com - 3/15/2009
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econbrowser.com —
When good news comes, what should we expect
to see? The graph below plots the quarterly percentage
change (at an annual rate) for real GDP and some of its key components since 1947. Calculated Risk has noted that the typical recession pattern is ...
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What will recovery look like?
globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com - 3/21/2009
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globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com —
by Edward Hugh: Barcelona "Most other countries in
the region are faring much better, though....Like Slovenia, which
joined two years ago, Slovakia can enjoy the full protection of rich Europe’s currency union, rather than just the indirect benefit of being due to join it some day." The ...
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Slovenia's Economy Falls Off The Roof, While Slovakia ...
fistfulofeuros.net - 3/13/2009
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fistfulofeuros.net —
“Most other countries in the region are faring
much better, though….Like Slovenia, which joined two years ago,
Slovakia can enjoy the full protection of rich Europe’s currency union, rather than just the indirect benefit of being due to join it some day.” The Economist ...
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Sovenia’s Economy Falls Off The Roof, While Slovakia ...
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Trend Stationarity/Difference Stationarity over the (Very) Long Run
Econbrowser —
... Figure 1: Log real U.S. GDP, 1867-2000, in billions 2000$. Source: GDP from Johnston and Williamson, and author's calculations. ...
Trend Stationarity/Difference Stationarity over the (Very) Long Run
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Figure 1: Log real U.S. GDP, 1867-2000, in billions 2000$. Source: GDP from Johnston and Williamson, and author's calculations. ...
Reagan! Reagan! Reagan!
Paul Krugman —
... assertions that it was all about rebuilding from the war, or that the picture looks very different if you look at per capita real GDP, with some flat assertions that if you look at the numbers right growth has been better since 1980s. Um, no. Take the United States, which wasn’t damaged in the war. Take per capita real GDP. Give hostages by taking data from 1950 to 1980, which means including the 1980 recession, but stopping at 2007, so that the current slump isn’t included. Then here’s what you get : Growth in per capita real GDP from 1950 to 1980: 2.2 percent per year ...
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Why European Banks are in Trouble... —
EconomPic
The chart below shows the size of global capital markets in relation to the GDP leading up to the crisis. What's clear is that bank assets were a much greater percent of GDP in the EU than in the United States, explaining (along with currency issues ) why the EU has been hit especially hard. ...
GDP-Based Supercycle Valuation And Timing Oscillator —
The Big Picture
Bob Bronson ( BRONSON CAPITAL MARKETS RESEARCH ) looks at GDP and Valuation:
We prefer the following construct of the stock market vs. GDP. Note that it does not require any multi-year averaging, like the methodology illustrated in the chart at the bottom does, and as required for corporate ...
GDP vs. S&P by Decade —
EconomPic
As a follow up to last week's breakdown of the S&P 500 vs. GDP , here is a breakdown of performance by decade. Comparing this chart to the real historical earnings and dividend yields below (i.e. yields less CPI), we see that outperformance of equities in the 1950's, 1980's and 1990's is ...
Bernanke’s Touble Forecasting The Future —
24/7 Wall St.
“It now appears likely that real gross domestic product (GDP) will not grow much, if at all, over the first half of 2008 and could even contract slightly. We expect economic activity to strengthen in the second half of the year, in part as the result of stimulative monetary and fiscal ...
The 30 Year Equity Cycle? —
EconomPic
Taking data from this morning's post on equities vs. the S&P 500 , the following charts take the 10 year return of the S&P (including dividends) and subtracts out the 10 year GDP growth... Is this all just one long-term equity cycle...
The Stimulus Plan, Pt II —
The Bonddad Blog
The plan has a very interesting table regarding multipliers. A multiplier is an estimate of the "cumulative impact of various policy options on GDP over several quarters" Notice that spending can have a minimum multiplier of 1 -- meaning each dollar spent adds that dollar to the national GDP ...
Updated Debt Stats —
Rolfe Winkler
From the Fed’s Flow of Funds report released today.* (Click charts to enlarge)
To put data from the chart above in context, the one below compares total debt to GDP. I’m using annual data here, so the increase at the end of 2008 is understated. GDP for the full year ...
Assistant Treasury secretary Rosie —
SCSUScholars
The forecast is rosy from the get go. The budget forecasters assumed that the economy would grow at a 3% annual rate starting in April, and that real GDP would fall just 1.2% in 2009, from 2008. Then, from 2010 through 2013, the administration assumes that real GDP will grow at a 4.0% annual ...
Global Stimulus as a Percent of GDP —
EconomPic
The IMF details: Many countries have announced plans to implement a sizeable discretionary fiscal stimulus to boost aggregate demand. To date, the G-20 countries have adopted (or plan to adopt) fiscal stimulus measures amounting on average to around ½ percent of GDP in 2008, 1½ percent of GDP in ...
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