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A cursory analysis of US inflation and unemployment data from 1953 to 1992 shows no single curve will fit the data, but there are three rough aggregations—1955–71, 1974–84, and 1985–92—each of which shows a general, downwards slope, but at three very different levels with the shifts occurring abruptly.
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Other data series are available back to 1912. The unemployment rate has varied from as low as 1% during World War I to as high as 25% during the Great Depression. More recently, it reached notable peaks of 10.8% in November 1982 and 14.7% in April 2020. Unemployment tends to rise during recessions and fall during expansions.
The data for the misery index is obtained from unemployment data published by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Inflation Rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The exact methods used for measuring unemployment and inflation have changed over time, although past data is usually normalized so that past and future metrics are comparable.
Inflation vs. Wage Growth. Inflation doesn’t hurt as much if incomes grow faster than prices rise, which they did during Trump’s entire presidency. ... Federal Reserve data shows that for most ...
Since World War II, the United States economy has performed significantly better on average under the administration of Democratic presidents than Republican presidents. The reasons for this are debated, and the observation applies to economic variables including job creation, GDP growth, stock market returns, personal income growth, and corporate profits.
Data for 1910-1930 from Christina Romer (1986), "Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data", The Journal of Political Economy, 94(1): 1-37. Data for 1930-1940 from Robert M. Coen (1973). "Labor Force and Unemployment in the 1920's and 1930's: A Re-Examination Based on Postwar Experience", The Review of Economics and Statistics, 55(1 ...