Friday, July 23, 2010

Do Not Look At These Charts Near Bed-Time

A tip o' the hat to Derek Thompson, staff editor at TheAtlantic.com.



The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That's an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years.



Via TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com, via Cryptogon:
As you can see from the chart below, the total of all debt (government, business and consumer) is now somewhere in the neighborhood of 360 percent of GDP. Never before has the United States faced a debt bubble of this magnitude....

Most of us were not alive during the Great Depression, but those who were remember how incredibly painful it was for America to deleverage and bring the economic system back into some type of balance.

So if our current debt bubble is far worse, what kind of economic horror is ahead for us?



Read that full story HERE.

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