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Friday, July 27, 2012

Dividend Persistence


Click to enlarge.

Despair.com: Persistence

It's over, man. Let her go.

Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart
Posted by Stagflationary Mark at 6:53 PM
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Labels: charts, employment, exponential trend failure, sarcasm, stock market

3 comments:

Troy said...

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=946

July 27, 2012 at 7:24 PM
Stagflationary Mark said...

Permanent prosperity?

Or 3rd time's the charm?

July 27, 2012 at 9:05 PM
Stagflationary Mark said...

This is an even better version of the chart.

July 27, 2012 at 9:09 PM

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