The entrepreneurship rate inthe Kauffman Index and the unemployment rate runinopposite directions because of the countervailing forces underlying entrepreneurial activity.
The Islamists and other "insurgents" knew that blowing up something in America during the run-up to an election would likely have theopposite effect it did in Spain in 2004 - clarifying the abiding danger and hardening our resolve.
Since many American states are forced, by law, to run balanced budgets they cut spending or raise taxes in a downturn the opposite of Keynesian pump-priming.