The trend shows that the e-commerce growth rate is about twice the growth rate of retail sales.  Even during the recession in 2008/2009, e-commerce sales had a growth rate above that of retail.  This could be caused by the convenience of e-commerce that allows people to shop from home and compare prices without having to drive to several different stores.

Increasing gas prices seems to correlate with increasing e-tail sales and could be one of the many factors as to why e-commerce is getting popular.  There is a significant increase in e-tail sales during the fourth quarter due to Christmas shopping, but we can see the steady increase of e-tail sales over time when comparing the same quarter each year.

Figure 1: The most important spatial pattern (the first element of the principal components analysis; top) Severity Index of the Palmer drought (PDSI) monthly from 1900 to 2002. The PDSI is a major indicator of drought measures the cumulative deficit (relative to local average) moisture to the land surface, by integrating previous precipitation and estimates of increased moisture in the atmosphere (based on atmospheric temperatures) in an accounting system hydrologique.13 The bottom graph shows the evolution of the sign and intensity of this configuration since 1900.

This picture shows the evolution of unemployment and inflation during the two first oil shock and the rising of unemployment since 2007.

This image shows the "nominal" house prices in the US for the last 40 years.

The thin blue line is what someone in 2000 might have expected houses prices to do during the first decade of the 21st century.

This picture shows the rising price of gold.

The gold price rising because it's considered a safe-haven. It's essentially a currency that cannot be ;anipulated by the interest rate policies of anyone government.

The US dollar has lost 95% of its value in relation to gold, this is a result of the $15 trillion US debt.

This graph describe the youth unemployment across Europe, in Euro-zone and in three european countries Spain Greece and Portugal

European Union map with the debt in % of GDP

This graphic is based on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff. Using data developed by Reinhart and Rogoff, it maps the cyclical history of financial crisis from 1810 to 2010 for sixty-six countries representing 90% of world GDP.