As 113 million of these diners were seated in 19, 801 restaurants across North America, this works out to a little over 5, 700 diners seated per restaurant in this region over the year as shown in the chart above.
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The combination of a 24% rise in the yuan against the dollar and a 21% increase in Chinese unit labour costs, relative to America's, explains the steep appreciation shown in the chart.
Let us start with the first move down in the 10-year note yields as shown in the chart above.
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The recovery since then has itself developed in five waves as shown in the second chart.
The answers to the survey question, expressed as an average for the period, are shown in the chart, plotted against the corresponding average rate of unemployment.
The most dramatic change shown in the chart is the decline in the top 1% of Swedish earners' share of total income to between 5%-10% in the 1960s from well over 25% in 1903.
Those actions resulted in the spikes in the saving rate shown in Chart 5.
Pay is considered to be reasonable if it is below the upper boundary of the Alignment Zone, as shown in the chart.
The aggressive selling by smart money continued through the morning and finally the bids were swept and the stock fell out of bed in the early afternoon as shown on the chart.
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That level for Apple happens to be very close to the 61.8% retracement level shown in the prior chart.
As shown in the chart below, effective Federal tax rates for low earners have dropped to zero over the last decade, even after including FICA taxes.
This is the highest percentage of any of the years shown on the chart at this point in the year.
As shown in the first chart below, there are only a couple of times when housing contributes 1-2 percentage points to growth, the most notable being the post-war period of rapid household formation by returning war veterans.
In classic fashion, consensus has basically straight-lined that V-shaped recovery over the next few years, as shown by the last piece of the chart highlighted in red and representing consensus estimates through 2011.
The recovery from the 61.8% retracement level looks like another three-wave affair now, possibly a new ABC (shown in red color in the chart below).
Now, as actually shown in chart 2-5 of the Analytical Perspectives Volume, our average annual GDP growth projection for the five years after the GDP trough is 3.8 percent, similar to the 4.2 percent historical average during recoveries.
The 2013 performance chart shown below indicates that iShares MSCI Germany Fund ( EWG, in blue) was up 4.8% on February 1, and is now down 0.68%.
Yet it is the 1990s that have seen executive pay soar to unprecedented levels, as shown in a study by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy (see top chart), with knock-on benefits further down the senior professional food chain.
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