Those actions resulted in the spikes in the saving rate shown in Chart 5.
The centrepiece of Mr Monti's legislative programme is a reform of Italy's notoriously restrictive labour laws, which help to produce a woefully low employment rate (see chart).
Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).
The long-term chart of the exchange rate shows that it is barely a blip, as the long-term downtrend (line a) goes back to 1976, when the rate was 305 yen per dollar.
As evident from the chart above, the growth rate over last quarter has nearly halved from 19% in Q2 to roughly 10% in Q3.
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Chart Analysis : The chart of the CBOE Interest Rate Ten-Year T-Note Index has a long-term downtrend going back to the 1990s that is now at 4.4%.
The last increase hit in July 2009 just after the recession ended, and as the nearby chart shows, the jobless rate jumped for teens and black teens especially.
In a 2007 study, Alex Brill and Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute found that the revenue-maximizing corporate tax rate is about 25 percent (click chart to enlarge).
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Yesterday on I Love Charts, I posted a chart that compared the growth rate of tuition fees at 4-year public colleges and the growth rate of median American income.
Twelve had falls of over 4.4% a year, which is the rate of decline that is needed to meet the millennium development goal (MDG) of cutting by two-thirds the child-mortality rate between 1990 and 2015 (see chart).
In March the two main gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha and the Mara 18, declared a truce, cutting the murder rate by two-thirds overnight (see chart).
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The long-term chart of the euro-dollar exchange rate shows a series of lower highs since 2007 (line c).
Bank lending in America has been growing at a faster rate than the economy as a whole (see chart).
Now take a look at the chart, which plots a foreign exchange rate along with a price index for the global stock market.
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 Bank's favourite measure of inflation, which excludes both mortgage-interest costs and indirect-tax changes, was unchanged in July, at an annual rate of 2.2% (see chart).
And this certainly is consistent with the data in the chart, which show that the poverty rate no longer is falling and instead bumps around between 12 percent and 15 percent.
According to the GDP deflator, a broad index of prices, deflation tightened its grip on the economy in the fourth quarter, with prices falling at an annual rate of 4.4% (see chart).
For example, the Conference Board in the November 2012 Global Outlook (see chart below) forecasted an annualized growth rate of 2.3% in its base case for the years 2013-208 and a further reduced annualized growth rate projection of 2.0% in its base case for the years 2019-2025, representing a distribution of roughly 18% of overall World output.
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The chart above shows that in 1980, the rate was 270 yen per dollar.
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The first chart plots the year-over-year rate of change in TMS2, cycle trough to trough.
Instead, his legacy will linger in the shape of the biggest economic imbalances in American history: a negative household saving rate and a record current-account deficit (see chart 1).
Here is a chart compiled by EPI, of the unemployment rate for 16-19-year-olds in the 20 states with the highest rates, as of May 2011, using a 12-month average calculated with Census Bureau data.
After falling steeply in the late 1990s, China's household saving rate has been more or less steady since 2000 (see chart 9).
That may have prompted China's central bank to let the yuan rise to a rate of 6.4 redbacks to one green (see chart 2).
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In the North East, where the public-sector is proportionately the largest (see chart) and has shrunk fastest, the unemployment rate has risen by 1.2 percentage points over the past two years.
Moreover, the number of vehicles leased by GM could grow at a rate of 3 percentage points faster than our current projections (chart not included) if GM maintains its market share and given a recovery in the asset backed market, which would improve its financing abilities.
As the chart also shows, excluding migrants, the urban unemployment rate fell from 11.1% to 6.7%.
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