Mish offers some graphical evidence that the recovery is simply not.
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See his whole post here, as a well as some interesting comments on trends in concert ticket sales.
Here’s one more chart I pulled from Fred:
Civilian Employment – Population Ratio
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If these were stock charts, I’d say that they had broken their positive trends, but are oversold. There certainly is no evidence of a recovery in the economy. GDP is just a BS number that includes government spending, and the way the government measures unemployment is a joke.