The Atlantic: from the business editor of the Atlantic
- pay particular attention to one showing how net investment (investment adjusted for depreciation) as a percent of net GDP has declined from about 8-10% to about 3% recently. If this continues, it implies future economic growth will be considerably slower than in the past (a new normal, not just a weak recovery)
- there are lots of other charts, many related to the budget deficit
- two charts that stood out to me were numbers 11 and 14
- chart 11 shows how long it will take to make up for the jobs lost during the Great Recession plus the expected growth in the labor force (the jobs gap); if the US adds 208,000 jobs a month, it will be 2024 before it eliminates the jobs gap
- chart 14 shows how global investors mispriced risk in members of the eurozone over the last decade
- everything from Eurozone debt and Chinese monetary policy to crude oil production in OPEC countries
- very interesting charts about the eurozone debt crisis
- a visual guide to the US budget, deficit, and national debt