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Economic Charts of Note

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With the hundreds of features on Slope, it’s easily to forget some amazing data sets, including our economic database. I thumped through my favorite charts from this collection and present them below.

Here is a very long-term view of manufacturing in the U.S. I think even a five year old child would state that we’re heading lower, considering the massive and regular pulse of the cycles seen here.

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