Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: COVID-19, economy, FHWA, miles driven, pandemic, transportation, United States travel habits, vehicle miles traveled, Vmt, work from home, zoom
Revisiting Vehicle Miles Traveled after several years of looking away in absolute disgust. Below is the moving 12-month average, latest month recorded is November 2020.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/tvt.cfm
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: coaches, economy, government, public employees, USA #1, WTF
Sad-larious.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: advertising, climate, economy, Obama, politics, predictions, projections, reelection propaganda, unemployment
Even in the ‘nightmare scenario,’ everything gets better, better, better.
This chart says a lot about American politics.
Also, remember that the ‘actual unemployment rate’ … isn’t.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: austerity, economy, Ireland, Irish GDP, Krugman, oil consumption, Paul Krugman, the austerity fairy
In a graph, via Paul Krugman:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/austerity-fantasies/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: census, durable goods, durable goods orders, economy, january 2012
http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/pdf/durgd.pdf