Charts of the Week
A Long-Term Look at Unemployment
June 20, 2022
A long-term look at unemployment
A long-term look at unemployment
A long-term look at miles driven and miles per gallon
A long-term look at government finances
A long-term look at crude oil
A long-term look at real S&P 500 earnings yield
A long-term look at interest rates back to 1790
Today's topics include fed communication, the contrarian view to continue buying the dip, traders giving up on dip buying?, growing recession fears, work-from-home, large outflows from corporate bond funds this week, an interesting breakdown of the strategic petroleum reserve, and rising interest costs
A look at outstanding amounts of Treasuries, corporates, agencies, munis and open market paper
The amount of outstanding private credit in the U.S. experienced a brief decline during the financial crisis, but government debt grew throughout the entire period. Both are now at new highs.
Private pension funds have much smaller funding gaps than their government counterparts.
Defined benefit plans continue to be replaced by IRAs and defined contribution plans.