tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post4682131115328472342..comments2024-03-16T05:19:07.061-04:00Comments on Retirement Blues: Still More Major Shifts, Circa 1980Jazzbumpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-2980303732606251242011-02-26T11:32:37.005-05:002011-02-26T11:32:37.005-05:00This last correlation is damned interesting. I'...This last correlation is damned interesting. I'm going to be researching/thinking about that a lot.Steve Rothhttp://asymptosis.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-55952382945023037442011-02-24T17:03:58.480-05:002011-02-24T17:03:58.480-05:00Jerry -
That's exactly the point, but I trace...Jerry -<br /><br />That's exactly the point, but I trace it back to the 1976 reversal.<br /><br />Cheers!<br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-13178278076333734732011-02-24T16:24:51.530-05:002011-02-24T16:24:51.530-05:00So it looks like, beginning around 1990, corporati...So it looks like, beginning around 1990, corporations began investing more in their stockholders than in their employees.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-78157354506555356862011-02-23T22:58:08.371-05:002011-02-23T22:58:08.371-05:00Mark -
You raise some good points.
It would be g...Mark -<br /><br />You raise some good points.<br /><br />It would be great if there were an analytical way to drill down to a definitive answer.<br /><br />Cheers!<br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-4727461708318085422011-02-23T17:58:45.259-05:002011-02-23T17:58:45.259-05:00"And it looks like a policy-driven result.&qu..."And it looks like a policy-driven result."<br /><br />I believe that the higher natural unemployment rate we should be seeing (due to our trade deficit) has been artificially masked for more than a decade by two unsustainable bubbles (dotcom and housing).<br /><br />If the 1970s are any indicator, a commodity bubble won't produce the same effect.<br /><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE" rel="nofollow">St. Louis Fed: Historical Unemployment Rate</a>Stagflationary Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568993350246477976noreply@blogger.com