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MFC & Recessionary Times

dee-luded
in Melbourne Demons

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Who can do the overlay graph of australian recessions of the last 100 Years and the Form line of the MFC?

It's just a theory I want either proven or disproved.

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    what are your criteria for X and Y ?

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    Australia has had growth for 20 years now, but in that time the Demons have been up and down like an economist's forecasts. Hard to see a recent correlation.

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    what are your criteria for X and Y ?

    I have a thought that I want to clear in my mind, that it may be that our MFC success era's may coincide with Australia's recessionary times.

    I tried last night to find suitable graphs, but couldn't find anything good enough to check this out.

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    So we await the recession Dees supporters "had to have"...

    This thread makes me think it has been 46 odd years since we have won a flag

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    During the 50's we were "Living off the sheeps Back" doing quite well i would have thought.

    yeah ..post war years were boom time.. do we see similar with mining ??? god I hope so ..lol

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    A great attempt at displaying faux-intelligence.

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    A great attempt at displaying faux-intelligence.

    Agree. You cant graph recession. You could possibly grapg quarterly GDP growth.

    And "recession" is a label to series of a economic outcomes over a period of time where the measure of recession is not uniform.

    For the record, 1974,1983,1990-91,2008-09 were periods of economic downturn with the label recessionary periods.

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    His theory must be true then. I'm still recovering from all that success we had in 2008 and 2009.

    personally I think there is a much closer relationship to MFC premierships and sun spot activity. Has anyone here had a close look at it?

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    personally I think there is a much closer relationship to MFC premierships and sun spot activity. Has anyone here had a close look at it?

    No, but i have looked at our Membership figures in relation to the price of bananas. Fascinating Reading....

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    No, but i have looked at our Membership figures in relation to the price of bananas. Fascinating Reading....

    bet the bananas are winning

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