One not particularly cute graph; no analysis, explanation, nor editorializing. GDPI is gross domestic private investment. NDGIC96 is Real Federal Nondefense Gross Investment. SLINVC96 is Real State & Local Government…

Part III – How to think about time series data. For reference: Part II Federal Spending as a Fraction of GDP Part I Federal Spending Growth Some commentors to the…

A post like this really shouldn’t be necessary, but part of the right wing canard that Obama has been a profligate spender is based on spending as a percentage of…

Over at Plain Blog, an anonymous wing nut made this off-topic comment. Now, yes, Bill Clinton and his 2000 federal spending level of 18% of GDP doesn’t put him on…

Krugman recently presented this graph, showing household debt as a percentage of GDP. and made this comment. Second, a dramatic rise in household debt, which many of us now believe…

Do you think it’s the Fed? It’s not. The market determines short term interest rates. Really. The Federal Funds Rate, which is set by the Fed, FOLLOWS 3 month T-Bill…

…calendar quarter of each president’s inauguration is allotted to the previous administration. I’ve labeled the quadrants as follows, and indicated the frequency of data points populating each quadrant. Here are…

Correlations and Slopes Over Time In Part 1, we looked at the ratio of consumption spending to net worth, and how it changed over time. This time we’ll look at…

Preramble: I posted this on my blog exactly a year ago today, in slightly different form. Dan linked to it once, from here, just a few weeks before I started…

Part 1 – Spending as a fraction of Net Worth Tim Duy weighed in on the output gap debate – not my topic, but he presented this chart of net…