Source: Ritholtz Archive:

Powerful summary from the Harvard Business Review (hardcopy apparently) via The Big Picture.

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Projected 2018 change in US employment levels by sector. A questionable analysis at best. nobody has a clue. (via The Big Picture)

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Visuwords: An interactive visual representation of the relationships between words. (via The Big Picture)

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Job growth, GDP and household net worth all did poorly. Related Washington Post article. (via The Big Picture).

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The index adds together a country’s budget deficit, as a percentage of gross domestic product, and its unemployment rate.

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(via The Big Picture)

Who are the winners and losers? (via The Big Picture)

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All new and depressing ways of looking at unemployment statistics, from Ritzholtz/The Big Picture.

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How the composition of the Fed’s balance sheet has changed over time. I would like to have seen the past two years blown up in detail. (via Ritzholtz).

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From Ritholtz. more of a timeline quiz than a chart.

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1. Tulip Mania
2. South Sea /Mississippi Company Bubbles
3. Railway Mania
4. Florida Speculative Building Mania
5. Roaring 1920s/1929
6. Poseidon Bubble
7. Gold
8. Japanese Asset Bubble
9. Dot Com/Tech/Telecoms
10. Global Real Estate/Credit Bubble
11. China/Shanghai Index Stock Bubble
12. Commodity Bubble
13. Oil Bubble
14. Leverage/Derivative/Financial Bubble

Excellent data from the WSJ, via The Big Picture.

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Wow! This is an amazing interactive infographic by the NYT. It maps out how people spend their day. You can filter it for men/women, employed/unemployed, by age, by education, by kids – and drill down by activity. Very interesting to play with. Spotted over at Ritholtz.

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From WSJ (by the way, if you don’t know how to get around the WSJ’s registration nonsense, you can search for an article’s title in google and use the link from there). Via Ritholtz.

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