US Economy Archive:
Income Equalizing?
10 Sep 2009Four charts on income inequality in the United States. The related article argues that the recession may be lowering the gap by clobbering the wealthy.
Computers Good. Oil Bad.
21 Aug 2009American attitudes towards different industries.
Foreclosure Breakdown
21 Aug 2009Excellent data from the WSJ, via The Big Picture.
Federal Research and Development Dollars
In: Politics US Economy
21 Aug 2009From a Wired blog post about the space program.
US Demographics 1950-2050
In: Employment US Economy
20 Aug 2009Animated graph of the US age distribution. (I think bigger groups would have made it clearer). (thanks to David Cramer for the link)
World Exports
14 Aug 2009A mixed story on trade – I think people are still reaching pretty hard for green shoot, especially in this data. Related article.
Job Losses by County, 1/07-6/09
11 Aug 2009year on year changes over time (not seasonally adjusted). Has roll-overs for county specific data.
Cash 4 Clunkers
In: US Economy
11 Aug 2009What people have been trading in – and what they have been buying. Personally I think it’s stupid to trash cars that are still in good shape. it’s basically another subsidy to the car industry.
Unhealthy Lobbying
6 Aug 2009Another presentation of data on lobbying from the health-care industry. The roll-overs almost save this from being a pointless chart (it needs a much longer time period).
Home Available for Sale
6 Aug 2009Two parts from the WSJ on home listings in major cities. First tab: bar charts showing number of homes for sale, percent who have reduced price, and change month-to-month.
Second tab: Line chart of inventories over the past 18 months.
Health Care Chart-Off
In: US Economy
3 Aug 2009The Health Care graphic design fight continues. Today, the rebuttle by a concerned graphic designer citizen:
Also, as noted in the Post, the Republican plan:
and another one about the current system:
Global Recession Map
In: Global Economy Maps Source: Economist Updated regularly US Economy
3 Aug 2009From the Economist:
Which is just a recycled version of Moody’s regularly updated map (that includes pop-up drill downs):
Updated July 29th. The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”.
Financial Regulation
3 Aug 2009The FT has some nice charts on proposed changes to financial oversight. Related article.
Bank Bonuses
3 Aug 2009Lots of talk last week about Wall Street still paying huge bonuses. Related article.
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