Friday, September 24, 2010

U.S. Economic Indicators (Unemployment rate and Capacity Utilization %)

August 2010

The US Dept. of Treasury release yesterday their Monthly economic data yesterday; here are two...

The unemployment rate is 9.6% and the capacity utilization rate is 74.7% for the month of August. Not much change from last month.

In periods of economic prosperity the capacity utilization rate (i.e., the rate at which production capacity is operating) range in the 80%+.

Source: US Dept of Treasury

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