Friday, March 9, 2012

"Gasoline Prices and the Unemployment Rate"

We like the Political Calculations blog and don't link to him enough. Time to rectify.
From Political Calculatiions:
A story in two pictures, covering January 1976 (the earliest year for which we have average inflation-adjusted monthly retail motor gasoline prices in the U.S.) through February 2012:
Inflation-Adjusted Motor Gasoline Prices and U.S. Unemployment Rate, January 1976 to February 2012Now the exact same data, but this time, with the data for average inflation-adjusted monthly retail motor gasoline prices shifted two years forward in time (to the right)...
...MORE (he has a Ta Da! moment)