1. Ireland U.S.

5. 1974 2001 2007 August 2011 Percent job losses in recessions 1983 1990

7. Total Revenues of Top 500 Global Corporations as Percentage of World Income (GDP), 1960– 2009

12. Wages as Percent of Value Added in Manufacturing

13. Real GPD per capita Median household income

20. Household Nonfinancial Business Federal Gov’t State and Local Gov’t. Financial Business

22. Penn Central (1970) U.S. Stock Market crash (1987) U.S. Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s Finnish banking crisis (1990s) Swedish banking crisis (1990s) 1994 economic crisis in Mexico 1997 Asian financial crisis 1998 collapse of Long-Term Capital Management 1998 Russian financial crisis Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002) Dot.com stock crash (2001) Great Recession (Lesser Depression, 2007-?)