My Interactive Educational Pamphlet on the Economy/Fed (99% Complete)
Submitted by Dhyerwolf on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 1:32pm
I wrote an online pamphlet a few months ago for a class that I thought some people here might find interesting. The goal was to help people visualize the actions the Fed took post great-recession, the effects they had on the stock and bond markets, and whether they helped Americans on the whole.
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~adam.reilly/Final_209/final_209/
A few quick notes:
1. The toolbar up-top does not completely work, but the scroll bar on the side does (This is why it's not 100% complete)
2. All charts have some method of interaction.
I'm always very happy to hear any constructive criticism.
Comments
I Like It. It's a Great Big Picture View. That's My Thing...
That said, I had trouble making anything out of it,"That's nice information..."
Maybe you need some probing questions that are generally on the mind of Americans. A list of 10-20 econ questions that are hard to understand that your big picture explains simply and elegantly.
Make the end user USE the tool you have here to answer the questions that bother us all.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Since Arliss Bunny is
"one of us" at NetrootsRadio.com, if you're looking for something more 9th grade-ish (which is always my choice), Arliss writes her "Bunny's Guide to Economics" (or some such) for 9th graders.
That's NOT to detract anything from the author of this post or his article (I haven't looked at it yet, expect it's just dandy), just that some of us need a little something easier to digest. Arliss' very short book can be found on Amazon for a few bucks (digital). Well worth the $3 in my view!
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Cool stuff, a bit to much in line is the reasoning
of the Fed actions though IMO. Again great work it does lay it out properly!!
Some have mentioned that the Fed actually gave anywhere from $14-$27tril
to the banks and QE.
when stating "society or economy" that the Fed helped it was banks
that they were saving mainly due to derivatives"Hedges" that were
fictitious in nature, i.e. me taking insurance out on everyones house
on C99 burning down.
Again the Fed stated goal, but the Fed uses this as a PR metric, chained CPI
and for the life of me a word for changing how clinton the man changed how
CPI was measured as to screw everyone on SS.
http://www.shadowstats.com/article/consumer_price_index
Shortly after Clinton took control of the White House, however, attitudes changed. The BLS initially did not institute a new CPI measurement using a variable-basket of goods that allowed substitution of hamburger for steak, but rather tried to approximate the effect by changing the weighting of goods in the CPI fixed basket. Over a period of several years, straight arithmetic weighting of the CPI components was shifted to a geometric weighting. The Boskin/Greenspan benefit of a geometric weighting was that it automatically gave a lower weighting to CPI components that were rising in price, and a higher weighting to those items dropping in price
We keep getting it up the arse.
EDIT: added another paragraph on HEDONICS, read and enjoy the BS
of what clinton the definition of is did to us, it ain't pretty
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
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now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Thank you!
Formatting on my system....
...renders sections inaccessible. Down arrow, a paragraph slips under the menu across the top. Up arrow, the same paragraph disappears below the bottom. Control-minus (shrink page) make no difference - it shrunk stuff but paragraphs were still inaccessible.
laptop, win7, firefox 56.0.2 64bit
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