US Unemployment - Let's Visualize It

Double dip recession...market recovery...sometimes I just get so sick of what the analysts are saying everyday. I still remember back in end 2008 when many were saying that the subprime crisis was just a storm in a cup. The total value involved in the subprime crisis was only a fraction of the entire US economy? Sigh, I have learnt to just take "advice" with a pinch of salt.

Numbers don't ring a bell? Let's try graphics. See here for an animated visual representation of the US unemployment numbers throughout US (up to May 2010). Quite scary when things get glimmer, doesn't it?

So I guess the US government still has a lot of work to do.

Then again.

From Sam Stovall's theoretical model, the market cycle precedes the economic cycle. SO, the stock market has to pick up before we see improvements in the economic numbers, don't we?

Then why those analysts are basing on economic numbers to predict the stock market?