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By Barry Ritholtz - November 14th, 2008, 6:59AM
Macro Notes
Consumer Credit continues downward trendPeter Boockvar
Consumer Credit outstanding fell $14.8b in Sept seasonally adjusted, almost $5b more than expected and marks the 11th month in the past 12 of declines. At $2.456T outstanding, it is 4.9% below the record high in July '08. After a flat reading in Aug, (didn't fall b/c of the CARS program), non revolving debt outstanding fell by $4.9B. Revolving (mostly credit cards) balances outstanding fell by $9.9B. To fully put into perspective today's data, look at the current level of consumer credit (doesn't include mortgages, the biggest chunk of consumer credit) relative to GDP. As of Q3, it totaled 17.2%...
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November 14th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Whew! for some time this morning, the site was loading only the header and tabs with no content displayed below. Finally it’s back up.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I noticed a dramatic load time difference almost immediately. I love the new site, Barry! The cafe is fantastic.
November 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I see you’re using WP-Cache. Definitely consider taking a look at WP-Super-Cache. it improves on WP-Cache by making it a ‘layered’ cache. Anonymous visitors are show static html copies of pages that are updated when new comments are posted or changes are made. It even stores them in compressed format, making it trivial for the web server to return the content (instead of having to compress it on the fly – it’s already in that format so the web server just serves it up). GREAT for stories with lots of comments.
Logged in users get handled by the normal WP-Cache system, allowing you to have dynamic sections, etc. in otherwise static cache copies. Some more load on the web server, but given that most of your visitors will NOT be logged in, worth it.
If you find a story of yours is on Digg, or some other site bringing loads of traffic (and comments) you can even flip WP-Super-Cache into lockdown mode where the pages won’t refresh on every comment – instead expiring every X minutes which you set – great way to handle a huge traffic spike.