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Teaching Macro: Charts on the US Economy
13th January 2013
As President Barack Obama prepares for his second inauguration I have put together this set of twenty five charts on the state of play for the US economy. An underlying awareness of some of the major challenges facing the world's largest economy provides great context for students writing on many other issues, for example US-China trade relationships, or connections between the USA and her NAFTA partners or emerging economies in Latin and South America.The charts cover the following areas:
- Economic Growth
- Growth and Inflation
- Monetary Policy Interest Rates
- Real GDP and Employment
- Duration of unemployment in the US
- Payroll Employment
- Manufacturing Employment
- Government borrowing and debt
- US Government Bond Yields
- Real per capita incomes
- Gini Coefficient for the USA
- Share of Income by Quintile
- Selected US House Price Indices
- New Housing Starts in the USA
- Loan Delinquency Rates
- US Trade Balance
- USA - World Export Share and Potential GDP Growth
- USA Current Account Balance with Canada and Mexico
- Export share and import penetration
- USA Savings Ratio and Current Account Balance (BoP)
- USA Current Account – Selected Countries
- USA External Debt
- Trade Weighted Value of the $
- Monthly sales of vehicles
- Apple and Google Share Prices
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.