August 10, 2009 9:01 AM
Here’s an interesting chart from the Slope of Hope. The head and shoulders pattern is a classic chart pattern that technical analysts associate with a subsequent major collapse. This one shows the percent of population working and how it might reach a possible target around where it was in the 1980′s. This would be consistent with many more families becoming single wage earner families again – but not by choice…

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