Hard to see the jobs recovery post recession in this graph!

[papau]

The 'Bush Recovery': The recession ended in November 2001, but Bush's policies kept destroying jobs. http://www.nber.org/cycles/recessions.html
Business Cycle Dating Committee, National Bureau of Economic Research

On November 26, 2001, the committee determined that the peak of economic activity had occurred in March of that year. For a discussion of the committee's reasoning and the underlying evidence, see http://www.nber.org/cycles/november2001. The March 2001 peak marked the end of the expansion that began in March 1991, an expansion that lasted exactly 10 years and was the longest in the NBER's chronology. On July 16, 2003, the committee determined that a trough in economic activity occurred in November 2001. The committee's announcement of the trough is at http://www.nber.org/cycles/july2003. The trough marks the end of the recession that began in March 2001. The 2001 recession thus lasted eight months, which is somewhat less than the average duration of recessions since World War II. The postwar average, excluding the 2001 recession, is eleven months.


"I can assure you it's not Saddam who's threatening to bomb airplanes -It's al-Qaida. We've not paid attention to al-Qaida. We've spent $160 billion, lost over 400 servicemen, and wounded and permanently maimed over 2,000 people because we picked the wrong target." Howard Dean

[are_we_united_yet]

1. Don't ya know Don't ya know

that black line is going up!

I know it looks like its going down, but just ask any Senior Bush Administration official.

[ochazuke]

2. That black line looks like a jet landing on an aircraft carrier

lowww-er, lowww-er, lowww-er. That's it, nice and gentle.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[papau]

3. he's destroyed US - but he's likable - and what would Dems do better

they have no plan - just complaints. And it has started to stop getting worse and maybe even improve - and an up trend in an election year is all that is needed for election....

sigh...

God - how can the media mouth that crap.

[area51]

4. media

I'm tired of seeing the repub media trying to act like "everything's all right now", that people can get jobs again. Nothing but B.S.! I like the graph since it helps show that the jobs just aren't there. If Shrub had any intelligence, he'd be sweating now, since he'd know all of us unemployed can't wait to fire him this Nov.