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.

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.

The U.S debt topped $15 trillion in 2011; while the U.K and Euro zone's collective debt amounted to approximately $13 trillion.