Low Capacity Utilization + High Unemployment = WTF???

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:24pm

Modeled Behavior points out something I’ve talked about recently.

That companies are holding trillions of dollars in profits close to their chest and losing trillions more in opportunities because they’re scared and won’t put people back to work…even those there’s plenty of work to be done because the demand is there.

First, the capacity utilization…

Now, the unemployment rate…

As Modeled Behavior puts it…

This is a failure of...


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