What's the Economic Chart of the Year?

Mark Perry is showing off his submission for economic "graph of the year." It's a good one. It shows off the phenomenon that I call the "Job Market Vigilantes" or the hiring that has not been done under the unrelentingly hostile business climate created by the Obama administration. Notice how the relationship between the two variables is tight until just about the beginning of 2009...hmmm...what happened at the beginning of 2009...??














Personally, my submission for graph of the year, hell graph of all time would be this one, which I think sums up all of economics in one easy to understand relationship (and which Perry has highlighted before). Look at that correlation! That is TIGHT!! The bigger government is, the crappier the economy is. Pretty simple.












See, economics ain't that hard!