Today in the economy

[Kirkland Laing]

I agree this is a little vague. It would be interesing to see a chart that shows unemployment vs. exchange rates.

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What they're saying is that when unemployment goes down the newly employed spend more money than they used to, boosting GDP and (in the current situation) demand for the dollar. I think. It depends on the wider context from wherever you got this from. Where do you get this shit from?

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I was looking for an economic calander for my intranet that was premade, this was the first one.

Ah, that's why they're interested in the effects on the dollar. As a general rule if you're reading financial sites check their archives 12 months ago (when the crisis was getting started but lots of people were claiming it was nothing) and 24 months ago (when everybody was claiming things were great/getting better etc.

Here's the guy who thinks Obama is to blame for all this last july :

If you thought you heard Cramer call a bottom during Tuesday’s Mad Money, you were right.“It smells to me like something, in fact many things,” he said, “have at last changed for the better.”
“I am indeed sticking my neck out right here, right now,” Cramer continued, “declaring emphatically that I believe the market will not revisit the panicked lows it hit on July 15. And I think anyone out there who’s waiting for that low to be breached is in for a big disappointment, and [they’re] missing a great deal of upside.”
“Stop waiting,” he said, and “buy the next dip because I think it might be the last big one.”

The Dow was 11600 at the time.