EU Money
In: Global Economy
19 Feb 2010
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1 Response to EU Money
chris
February 20th, 2010 at 5:40 am
They’ve scaled the triangles linearly with amount to make the comparisons look worse – so the area of the triangles scales with the square of the payment. This graphic is intentionally misleading. But pretty.