inluminent

Saw this on John Robb’s weblog… couldn’t help but post it here also, it’s an interesting look at the current ‘recovery’:

This is an amazing chart (via Barry Ritholz).

Funny thing is, I live in a state that’ll vote for Bush, no matter who I vote for, and I’m also not educated enough (about politics) to know if the president can actually do anything about that graph or not…

update: and then I go and read this article and get all confused: WSJ: Manufacturers Say They’re Hiring, But Jobs Picture Remains Murky [sub. req.] — and that’s why I don’t pay that much attention to politics…