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Originally Posted by wind_magic
Sorry I was late posting the numbers this month!
1929 - 3.2% / 2007 - 4.7% (u3) / 2007 - 8.3 (u6)
1930 - 8.7% / 2008 - 7.2% (u3) / 2008 - 13.5% (u6)
1931 - 15.9% / 2009 - 9.4% (u3) / 2009 - 16.3% (u6)
1932 - 23.6% / 2010 - ?? (u3) / 2010 - ?? (u6)
1933 - 24.9% / 2011 - ?? (u3) / 2011 - ?? (u6)
1934 - 21.7% / 2012 - ?? (u3) / 2012 - ?? (u6)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
U3 ticked down 0.1% and U6 0.2%, wow! I wonder what they would look like if we took out the summertime seasonal adjustments due to home building, farming, walking people's dogs, and all the other stuff human beings do during the summer ? Look out autumn, here we come ...
"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February." - Mark Twain (this is now sometimes referred to as the Mark Twain effect) |
That didn't last long ...
1929 - 3.2% / 2007 - 4.7% (u3) / 2007 - 8.3 (u6)
1930 - 8.7% / 2008 - 7.2% (u3) / 2008 - 13.5% (u6)
1931 - 15.9% / 2009 -
9.7% (u3) / 2009 -
16.8% (u6)
1932 - 23.6% / 2010 - ?? (u3) / 2010 - ?? (u6)
1933 - 24.9% / 2011 - ?? (u3) / 2011 - ?? (u6)
1934 - 21.7% / 2012 - ?? (u3) / 2012 - ?? (u6)
Source:
Bureau of Labor Statistics