JANIK PC

Shows the seasonally adjusted civilian unemployment rate in Texas over the 96 month period beginning with January 2003 and continuing through December 2010 as compared to the seasonally adjusted civilian unemployment rate in the United States  during the same period.

Shows domestic crude oil first purchase price averages for the United States from January 2003 to December 2010.  The second graph compares the crude oil first purchase price to U.S. oil consumption over the same January 2003 to December 2010 time period.

Shows U.S. average Residential and Wellhead prices from January 2003 through December 2010.

Annual numbers are averages over 52 or 53 weeks, not calendar years.  The graph illustrates trends in the numbers of rotary rigs in operation as reported on a weekly basis for the period from 1988 to 2010.  It also shows the relative distribution of rotary rigs by objective (crude oil or natural gas).  A small number of rigs were used for other miscellaneous purposes.  These would include service wells, injection wells, and stratigraphic tests.

Shows sources of energy used to generate electricity in the United States from 1990 to 2010 as a percent of total kilowatt-hours generated.

Shows the daily bank prime loan interest rate and the effective federal funds rate from the Federal Reserve's Statistical Release H15 for the eleven-year period from 2000 to 2010.

Shows weekly interest yields on one-year, five-year, and ten-year Treasury issues at constant maturity, based on composite quotes provided by government securities dealers to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the most actively traded marketable Treasury securities from 2000 to 2010.

Two graphs showing new, privately owned, housing unit building permits in the United States and Texas.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures changes in prices paid by urban consumers for a specific set of goods and services.  The "Core" CPI is the measure of all goods and services in this "representative basket" except food and energy products and services.  Food and energy prices are considered naturally volatile, and the CPI is sometimes considered a more meaningful measure of inflation when those items are excluded from the index.  These graphs show the "Core" CPI for the United States and each of the four US regions normally considered in the survey data.  The first graph shows the annual index values.  The second graph shows the percent change in annual index values compared to the previous year -- the "Core Rate of Inflation."

While the Consumer Price Index (CPI) seeks to measure prices paid by consumers for products and services.  The Producer Price Index (PPI) seeks to measure prices paid to producers for their products and services.  The Producer Price Index (PPI) is actually a family of several thousand indexes and sub-indexes generally grouped by Industry, Commodity, or Stage-of-Process.  Perhaps the most closely watched PPI is the Finished Goods Price Index, often used as a leading indicator of changes in inflation (which is measured by the CPI or Core-CPI).  The charts show the index and the monthly percent change in the index.

Gross Domestic Product measures the market value of all goods and services produced by labor and property within the United States.  These charts show the Gross Domestic Product and the Percent Change in GDP.