Depression Level Unemployment: 40 Percent Unemployment in the U.S.? Top 12 MSA Unemployment Regions Located in California. The Only 2 MSA Regions with 20 Percent Unemployment Exist in California.
Statistics have a way of being cold and unsympathetic to the plight of the numbers they represent. That is why when we hear that our national unemployment rate is 8.9 percent, there is little cause for alarm from the headline. Yet when we parse the data we realize that 25,000,000 Americans are unemployed or underemployed […]
S&P 500 up 34 Percent in Less Than 2 Months: S&P 500 went down 38 Percent for all of 2008. So why are we Still Down 42 Percent from the 2007 Peak?
We are witnessing one of the strongest bear market rallies in history. This kind of market volatility only rears its head during extreme environments. One quick fact many market watchers will realize is that if you lose 50 percent of your portfolio, you will need to have a 100 percent gain to break even. How […]
Stock Market Volatility is Back: Approaching a Decade of Lost Returns on Investments. The S&P 500 can fall another 42%.
The stock market is off to a horrible start for 2009. Many thought that things could not get worse than what we experienced in 2008. Yet market volatility, a sign of an unhealthy economy, is still with us and appearing again in a ferocious way. From January 4, 2008 to February 21, 2008 the S&P […]
Markets Face Worst October since 1987: Dow Jones Industrial Average on Pace for Worst Year to Date Record since 1931.
At the start of Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 36.83% for the year. How bad was that? Let us put it this way, the only two years with more Shakespearean tragic one year performances were in 1907 and 1931. That is how significant this crash is. Even with the amazing recovery of […]