Infographic of the Day: What's the State of the Economy?

Russell Investments has created a handy dandy dashboard of the major economic indicators. Though it's meant to help financial advisors talk to their clients, it's pretty useful to anyone with even a passing interest in all the financial data that pundits are always droning on about.

The data basically paints a succinct picture of the story now being flogged by many economic observers: We seem to be pulling out of the recession, albeit in a very anemic fashion.

Many of the core indicators are fairly close to their historical averages--including inflation and consumer spending--and they're trending positive. But on the other hand, employment growth is still negative and on the ropes. But most worryingly, there's still a massive amount of mortgage delinquencies--hence some people's fear of a double-dip recession.

If you're interested in learning more, each line of the dashboard is actually backed by historial data. Go nuts.

[Via Chartporn]