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Economic Indicators

What is your reading of the economy?

After analyzing the charts in the years 2008 and 2009 there was a dip into a recession, when reading the City Composite Home Price Index we are able to view that there was a massive drop in sales for homes in this time period meaning at this point home’s were too expensive and people were not able to take out loans to make payments due to not being able to make enough income. In this time period on the exchange volatility index infographic we see the risk with inflation spike to 62.1% at its peak in 2008 which is a 41% jump from the beginning of they year is 2008. When looking at the treasury yield spread you can see that the yield starts to dip down into the negative in the year 2006 - 2007 which was an indicator that a recession was about to begin. If we look at the economic indicator charts the consumer sentiment started to drastically drop at the beginning of 2007 and continue to stay in the negatives throughout most of 2009. People were not making enough money to purchase luxury goods so they were focusing on making sure they had necessities. In the consumer price index we can see that the prices on items started to slowly lower at the end of 2009 going into 2010 to start flattening the curve with the recession, and on the unemployment rate chart you can start to see that from 2006-2007 the unemployment rate was slowly starting to build up marking the beginning of a potential recession, and once it hit 2008 that’s when the unemployment rating shot up from 4.6% to 10% overall.