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Charts from recent presentations or recent issues of Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter.

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Slides from presentation to the D.A. Davidson's 10th annual financial-services conference in Seattle, May 8, 2008.
Slides from presentation to the Washington Trucking Associations leadership conference and exposition, Cle Elum, May 5, 2008.
Music to exporters' ears (trade-weighted dollar) from Marple's Letter Feb. 27, 2008..
The silent run on America's shadow banking system, from Marple's Letter, Jan. 30, 2008..
Washington wage and salary employment growth Jan. 1999-Jan. 2008.
Washington employment growth rates, with forecast to 2011.
Washington manufacturing employment 1998-2007
Washington aerospace employment, monthly Jan 1998-Jan 2008.
Relative job change in Washington's goods-producing and service-producting sectors 1990-2007.
Washington employment in software publishing 1999-2007.
Washington population growth and rate of change since 1980.

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