Sherifview Unemployment Momentum Index Theory

Unemployment Momentum is defined as the current unemployed multiplied by the rate of the change of unemployment index divided by the number of total employed.

Accordingly at the time Barack Obama took office that he inherited from George W Bush there was large unemployment momentum Index.
Now the unemployment momentum Index is fluctuating around zero percentage.

Who Owns the U.S. Treasuries?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43909706?slide=3

Crude Oil Technical Chart July-28-2011

The Secret Warren Buffett Golden Advice to Barack Obama

Supply of Oil World Wide

Commodity Futures Price Quotes For Oil

Commodity Futures Price Quotes For
Light Crude Oil (Pit)
Weekly Commodity Futures Price Chart

The Tulip First Economic Bubble

In the early 1600s, tulip mania hit Holland hard. The elegant and exotic flower, which had recently arrived to the tiny European nation via trade routes from the Ottoman Empire, was so prized by the aristocracy that the demand for the rare bulb caused prices to skyrocket.

By 1636, the tulip was being traded as a commodity on several Dutch stock exchanges, leading to widespread market speculation [source: Investopedia]. People spent exorbitant sums to get their hands on a bouquet of tulips in order to "flip" them to an even bigger sucker. Then one day, without explanation, the pool of suckers suddenly dried up. Mass panic ensued and prices fell through the floor as people became more and more desperate to sell [source: Frankel].

The Dutch tulip craze is one of the earliest recorded examples of an economic bubble. A bubble is created when any asset -- be it tulips, homes or Internet startups -- is allowed to irrationally and unsustainably increase in value [source: Cronin].

Commercial Construction Slump in USA July 2011

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/john-mauldin-us-economy-second-half/7/5/2011/id/35535

Light Crude Oil (Pit) Commodity Futures Price Quotes July-2011

Monthly Commodity Futures Price Chart
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/CO/M

Total Market Value of US Stocks as a Percent of GNP

prices home prices

los Angeles, June 1

Warren Buffett Picture Photo

File:US Federal Debt as Percent of GDP by President

File:US Federal Debt as Percent of GDP by President

Job Creation Under Barack Obama as of June 2011

Unemployment Rate May-06-2011

Employment Situation Summary

Friday, May 6, 2011

Technical information:
Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps
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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- APRIL 2011


Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 244,000 in April, and the unemployment rate
edged up to 9.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Job gains occurred in several service-providing industries, manufacturing,
and mining.

US Census Statistics 2008 Individuals and House Holds Incomes

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0691.pdf

Economics CPI percentage

Assume the CPI increases from 100 to 110. Explain the impact of this inflation on each of the following:
a.A surveyor who took out a 5% fixed-rate loan last year to buy new equipment.
b.A bank that awarded a 6% fixed-rate loan to a couple buying their first home.
c.A company signs a contract to clean classrooms at a fixed rate for the next 5 years. The company does not have a labor contract with its employees.
d.A union worker who received a 10% cost of living adjustment.
e.A student who currently earns 2% interest on her savings account

S P Price to Earning Ratio Chart

http://www.chartoftheday.com/20110225.htm?T

The US Unemployment Rate Dips for January 2011

The unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 9.0 percent in
January, while nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+36,000),
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in
manufacturing and in retail trade but was down in construction and in
transportation and warehousing. Employment in most other major
industries changed little over the month.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
http://unemployed-friends.forumotion.com/t20392-employment-situation-summary-friday-february-4-2011
http://unemployed-friends.forumotion.com/
http://www.odesk.com/community/online_employment_situation_summary
http://kliphs-underground.blogspot.com/2011/02/only-36000-jobs.html
http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

Islamic Map of the World

US Arms Shipment to the Middle East Since 1950

US Arms Agreements Sales Since 1950
Years Worldwide Arms Sales Near East / South Asia Arms Sales Percent of Total
1950-69 $10,927,010,000 $1,845,957,000 16.90%
1970 $1,066,506,000 $390,339,000 36.60%
1971 $1,381,569,000 $688,432,000 49.80%
1972 $2,822,129,000 $1,136,085,000 40.30%
1973 $5,737,497,000 $4,408,280,000 76.80%
1974 $9,495,009,000 $7,794,253,000 82.10%
1975 $13,219,489,000 $6,268,995,000 47.40%
1976 $13,312,951,000 $10,277,753,000 77.20%
1977 $5,899,625,000 $3,569,889,000 60.50%
1978 $6,941,098,000 $3,656,085,000 52.70%
1979 $11,487,271,000 $7,425,356,000 64.60%
1980 $13,599,651,000 $7,226,200,000 53.10%
1981 $6,876,942,000 $2,722,834,000 39.60%
1982 $14,669,278,000 $7,541,769,000 51.40%
1983 $13,782,542,000 $4,756,426,000 34.50%
1984 $12,068,435,000 $4,156,398,000 34.40%
1985 $10,771,803,000 $4,284,441,000 39.80%
1986 $5,954,236,000 $1,764,805,000 29.60%
1987 $5,884,901,000 $1,862,730,000 31.70%
1988 $10,567,946,000 $6,612,466,000 62.60%
1989 $8,624,991,000 $4,976,744,000 57.70%
1990 $14,514,451,000 $8,713,841,000 60.00%
1991 $17,084,891,000 $11,592,612,000 67.90%
1992 $12,036,173,000 $2,583,135,000 21.50%
1993 $28,186,376,000 $14,093,629,000 50.00%
1994 $12,233,098,000 $4,525,293,000 37.00%
1995 $8,165,906,000 $2,265,602,000 27.70%
1996 $8,973,430,000 $3,769,953,000 42.00%
1997 $7,930,116,000 $2,080,566,000 26.20%
1998 $8,746,786,000 $4,464,798,000 51.00%
1999 $11,132,224,000 $5,402,354,000 48.50%
2000 $10,968,282,000 $3,879,519,000 35.40%
2001 $12,544,915,000 $5,722,676,000 45.60%
2002 $11,821,419,000 $4,910,371,000 41.50%
2003 $12,924,620,000 $3,267,472,000 25.30%
2004 $14,081,196,000 $6,503,776,000 46.20%
2005 $9,791,951,000 $3,874,279,000 39.60%
2006 $18,078,995,000 $7,561,074,000 41.80%
2007 $18,878,229,000 $7,455,340,000 39.50%
2008 $28,963,266,000 $17,706,338,000 61.10%
2009 $31,682,369,000 $16,702,040,000 52.70%
TOTAL $483,829,574,000 $230,440,906,000 47.60%
http://www.warisbusiness.com/research/us-arms-exports-to-the-muslim-world/#more-2720

USA Debt and Other Economic Parameter Meters Web Site

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Sarah Palin I am not Sorry" It is Impossible to Make Her Say Sorry for Any Thing She Says or Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6zIISPMvQ4

Letting High-Income Tax Cuts Expire Is Proper Response

Over the next year or two, policymakers could channel the savings from letting the tax cuts expire — about $40 billion in 2011 — to uses that have more “bang for the buck” in creating jobs and promoting growth. For example, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis suggests that using those savings for a combination of a job-creation tax credit and continued state fiscal assistance would generate three times as much additional economic activity as using them to extend the high-income tax cuts.

Over the longer term, allowing these high-end tax cuts to expire on schedule would produce substantial deficit-reduction savings. (Policymakers could dedicate the short-term as well as the long-term savings to deficit reduction if they cannot agree on other short-term uses of the funds to boost the economy.)

A short-term extension of the tax cuts for high-income households, which some have suggested, also would be ill-advised. It would have only a small effect on the current, weak economy, while posing a substantial risk that Congress would continue extending the tax cuts and even make them permanent, creating much larger deficits for years to come. This risk is especially high given that the next Congress is likely to include considerably more proponents of making these tax cuts permanent. This is a matter of no small consequence: deficits and debt will be about $1 trillion higher over the next ten years if the high-income tax cuts remain in place.

Extending High-Income Tax Cuts the Least Effective Stimulus Option
Given the economy’s present weakness, some argue that now is not the time to allow the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for high-income households to expire. But analysis in a recent CBO report decisively refutes this argument.[1] CBO examined 11 options to stimulate growth and job creation and found that extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts in general came in last in effectiveness. [2] CBO concluded that a job-creation tax credit, funds to help states balance their budgets with fewer cuts in services and tax increases, and extended unemployment insurance benefits would all generate more jobs and growth on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Furthermore, CBO indicated that extending the tax cuts for high-income households in particular would rate even lower in effectiveness than extending all of the tax cuts. This is because, as CBO explained, “higher-income households … would probably save [rather than spend] a larger fraction of their increase in after-tax income.”[3] An economy in a recession or the early stages of a recovery needs more spending, not more saving.

In short, CBO found extending the tax cuts for high-income households to be the worst of all options under discussion for preserving or creating jobs and boosting economic growth while the economy is weak.

Alan Blinder, a former Federal Reserve Vice Chair and one of the nation’s most eminent economists, recently made this point as well. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Blinder observed:[4]

Consider three different ways to add a dollar to the budget deficit: increase unemployment benefits by $1, give a $1 tax cut to someone earning $50,000 a year, or give a $1 tax cut to someone earning $5 million a year.

While the immediate impacts on the budget are identical, the near-term spending impacts are not. The unemployed worker struggling to make ends meet will likely spend the entire dollar right away. The $50,000 earner probably will spend the lion's share of it, saving just a bit —that's what most Americans do. But the $5,000,000 earner probably will save most of the new-found dollar.

The impacts on economy-wide demand will therefore be quite different. Paying more in unemployment benefits offers the most spending “bang” for the budgetary “buck.” Extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy offers the least.

As a result, Blinder explained, it would be more economically efficient to let the high-income tax cuts expire to and use the proceeds to advance policies that create more jobs and growth in the short term, while devoting the savings to deficit reduction after that.

More Effective Uses of the Proceeds While the Economy is Weak
A number of policies would represent more effective uses of these resources in the period immediately ahead. Examples include:

■A jobs tax credit: CBO estimates that a temporary jobs tax credit — one that reduced a firm’s payroll taxes on new hires — would generate three times as much economic growth as extending the Bush tax cuts, per dollar of cost. CBO’s analysis also shows that each dollar spent on a jobs tax credit would create four to six times as many jobs as a dollar spent on extending the Bush tax cuts.

Moreover, these comparisons refer to extending the Bush tax cuts as a whole. The disparity in the effectiveness of these various policies is even greater when only the tax cuts for high-income households are considered.
■State fiscal assistance: The tax increases and budget cuts that states are imposing in response to their weak revenues are weighing heavily on the economy. CBO estimates that providing fiscal assistance to states would generate three to four times as much economic growth as extending the tax cuts and would create two to three times as many jobs. Moreover, Goldman Sachs’ economic analysis unit reported on July 20 that, primarily because it no longer expects Congress to extend state fiscal relief or provide other further stimulus (beyond the just-approved extension of unemployment benefits), it is now significantly lowering its growth forecast for 2011.[5]
■Unemployment benefits: As noted above, unemployed workers quickly inject unemployment benefits back into the economy to help pay for their living costs. CBO concludes that dollar for dollar, this policy generates the largest bang-for-the-buck — for both economic growth and creation — of any of the policy options it examined.
Allowing the high-income tax cuts to expire on schedule would free up almost $40 billion in revenue next year (almost $90 billion over two years), based on estimates from the Treasury Department and the Joint Committee on Taxation.[6] As the CBO analysis shows, this money could be put to other uses that would generate substantially more economic activity and jobs. Just $13 billion in state fiscal relief would stimulate the economy as much as the approximately $40 billion it would cost to extend all of the high-income tax cuts.

Using the economic multipliers in the CBO analysis,[7] one can examine how the impact of extending the tax cuts for high-income households would compare to two hypothetical packages, one channeling $20 billion into state fiscal relief and $20 billion to a job creation tax credit, and the other channeling the full $40 billion into a further extension of unemployment benefits. (The just-enacted extension of unemployment benefits runs out in November, but the unemployment rate is expected still to be between 9 and 10 percent at that time.)

A. Extending the $40 billion in high-income tax cuts would generate about $10 billion in GDP.

B. Allowing these tax cuts to expire and instead providing $20 billion in state fiscal relief and $20 billion toward a job creation tax credit would generate about $32 billion in GDP: $15 billion from the state fiscal relief and $17 billion from the jobs tax credit. The result would be a net gain of $22 billion in economic activity — or a tripling of the impact.

C. Allowing the high-income tax cuts to expire and providing $40 billion in continued unemployment benefits instead would generate about $52 billion in GDP. Compared to extending the high-income tax cuts, this would result in a net gain of $42 billion in economic activity — five times the economic stimulus that would come from extending the high-income tax cuts.

Letting Tax Cuts Expire on Schedule Would Lock in Long-Term Budget Savings
The country is on an unsustainable fiscal path. CBO estimates that, even in the highly unlikely event that Congress enacts all of the deficit-reduction proposals in the President’s fiscal year 2011 budget, the debt will climb to 90 percent of the gross domestic product by 2020, and annual deficits will be above 5 percent of GDP (and rising) at that time.[8]

If Congress extends the tax cuts for married filers with incomes above $250,000 and single filers with incomes above $200,000 — the top 2 percent of U.S. households — then deficits and debt will be about $1 trillion higher over the next ten years than if it lets them largely expire, as President Obama has proposed.[9] In subsequent decades, extending the high-income tax cuts would increase deficits by even larger amounts.

Even a temporary extension of these tax cuts would be quite ill-advised. Not only would it be a highly inefficient way to stimulate the economy now, but it would pose serious long-term fiscal risks. A one- or two-year extension would hand to the next Congress the critical decisions on the ultimate disposition of the high-income tax cuts. Proponents of making those tax cuts permanent are expected to make major gains in the November election and thus to have more votes for such a move. A one-year or two-year extension now would likely lead to a second extension, and to either more extensions after that or action by a future Congress to make all of the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent. That, of course, would produce higher deficits as far as the eye can see. The much more fiscally responsible course is to allow the high-income tax cuts to expire on schedule at the end of this year.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3241
http://www.cbpp.org/

Worst Global Stock Markets 2010

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/streetwise/best-and-worst-global-stock-markets-of-2010/19777184/