Tuesday Rock Blog: The World is a Ghetto

Since I didn't get around to doing a blog post Saturday here is a special Tuesday rock blog. I've paired it with this beautiful unemployment chart I found on Calculated Risk. CR has aligned the troughs of past recessions with the current one, they all seem to form almost perfect Gaussians!

The Unemployment Game Show

Fed Funds Rate vs Unemployment

I found this very interesting "epic" chart over at Calculated Risk. It suggests to me that the fed won't raise rates until long after unemployment peaks. This fits nicely with the notion that this stock market bubble will inflate for some time to come. Once the fed starts raising rates though, wow, watch out below.

Unemployment with and without Obama's stimulus plan versus actual: lol