One good metric for evaluating the economic leadership and their ability to know what they are pitching is the unemployment rate.  In the chart below, we’ve highlighted the unemployment of the G-7 over the past three years.  In order to further emphasize this point, we’ve highlighted directly below the increase (a positive number), or the decrease (a negative numbers), of unemployment for these nations over the past three years.

CHART OF THE DAY: G7 UNEMPLOYMENT RATES - chart1