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Very nice. Particularly since it gives me insight into what lots of people are yelling about.

For example, look at the unemployment rate, and click Alaska (where I live) & California (where half the web seems to think that everyone lives).

We see that employment in AK is highly cyclic with a yearly cycle, that there isn't a whole lot of variation otherwise, and that current unemployment is a tad high, but not outlandishly so, and not the highest in the last 20 years.

On the other hand, unemployment in CA in not very cyclic, has significant variation on a scale of 5-10 years, and has recently gone shooting up to the highest level in 20 years.

So perhaps both sides can understand each other a little better.

P.S. Also compare California and Wyoming. And then stop wondering why some of the people in Wyoming don't seem worried.



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