Economy

Koios

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26. Funny thing about "facts" ...

Mon Aug 5, 2013, 10:08 AM

Aug 2013

... they're meaningless, except in an academic sense.

Example: sky is blue; fact. Good info, but it's more meaningful to understand why the sky appears blue.

Ditto on employment; GDP; equality; you name it.

So if we're treading water on job creation, which we are. If 61% of new jobs being created are low-paying, which they are. How do we remedy it. Is Obama doing the sorts of things needed to remedy it? And as Democrats (the base Obama serves, directly) are we demanding change, or merely looking for stats that allow us to feel good about how he's preforming?

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EF-0. Economy Stats with links to original sources. Links to LBN jobs threads thru 9/6/24 [View all] progree Sep 2012 OP

EF-1. Job Loss and Creation - Payroll Jobs progree Sep 2012 #1

EF-2. Unemployment Rate, Labor Force Participation Rate, Unemployment Insurance Claims progree Sep 2012 #2

EF-3. Recessions and Expansions - Official (NBER.org). Also GDP (Gross Domestic Product) progree Sep 2012 #3

EF-4. U.S. Stock Market as measured by the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Indus Avg progree Sep 2012 #4

EF-5. National Debt. Deficits and Surpluses progree Sep 2012 #5

EF-6. U.S. Dollar Index (DXY). Also, Oil Prices progree Sep 2012 #6

EF-7. In Progress (mostly Dem presidencies v. Repub presidencies) progree Oct 2012 #20

EF-8. In Progress - Some canned excerpts to use in the message board wars progree Dec 2012 #23

EF-9. Incomes and Inequality, Poverty, Inflation, Consumer Confidence progree Oct 2014 #31

EF-10. Definitions, Links progree Oct 2014 #32

#11 - Reserved for expansion and reordering n/t progree Oct 2014 #33

EF-U. Updates List, Updated 8/3/24 progree Feb 2020 #37

thanks so much for this. don't know why I didn't snap to the baby boomer NMDemDist2 Sep 2012 #7

Thanks for the thanks and slogging through it all. I just improved EF.2.'s readability a bit (same progree Sep 2012 #8

yeah, and the 2009 oilhole Teague rode in on Obama's coattails NMDemDist2 Sep 2012 #9

A lot of meaningful data and links to data. great post. A lot of work went into this! recommended,.. Bill USA Sep 2012 #10

Thanks for the link, I haven't seen it before, I added to CabCurious's 125170175 progree Sep 2012 #11

All numbers updated 10/7/12. Of particular interest is EF 1 and EF 2 - jobs -- updated for the progree Oct 2012 #12

Great stuff FogerRox Oct 2012 #13

Thanks. Some answers... progree Oct 2012 #15

Brackets, we used to have 67. Now we have 6. Not good at FogerRox Oct 2012 #16

Funny about oil prices, I disticntly remember $44 a barrel in the beginning of Reagans first term. FogerRox Oct 2012 #17

I've found some partial info, nothing comprehensive FogerRox Oct 2012 #18

Great resource! Hugin Oct 2012 #14

Kicking this for more eyes! beac Oct 2012 #19

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Kicking, Reccing, and Bookmarking. Will spend some more time checking out the specifics, but Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2012 #22

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Funny thing about "facts" ... Koios Aug 2013 #26

Should this be pinned? I think so. FogerRox Aug 2013 #27

A kick after 9 months of spending 3-4 hours per month quietly updating the numbers progree May 2014 #28

Kick for an update that took 1 1/2 days - hope you'll look at EF-0, the OP post progree Jul 2014 #29

9/6/14 update. Simplified EF-0 to include only the latest jobs report summary progree Sep 2014 #30

9/5/15 update, reorganization, and new pages added in the last few months progree Sep 2015 #34

5/6/16 update of all pages, 1st time in 4 months. Many years-old EF-5 numbers updated progree May 2016 #35

Updated most of it 2/2/18 -- covering Trump's first year progree Feb 2018 #36

A kick to keep it from falling into the archives - I have to do this about every 2 1/2 years progree Oct 2022 #38

Another kick. Might now be in the archive. Miss you progree, wherever you are question everything Mar 2024 #39