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Chart of the Day: Index vs. The World

Over the last five years, 87% of actively managed funds in the US underperformed their index. Today’s Chart of the Day from S&P Global shows this..

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Chart of the Day: Stocks since 1980

Today’s Chart of the Day from iShares by BlackRock shows that, even though we've experienced numerous financial problems along the way, $100,000..

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Chart of the Day: History of Bank Failure

Today's Chart of the Day is the history of bank failures from USAFacts. The year 1989 was the height with 531 banks failing from a savings and loan..

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Chart of the Day: Debt Ceiling

Today’s Chart of the Day comes from Morningstar.com. In the last 40 years, the debt ceiling has gone up 53 times.

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Chart of the Day: First 10 Years vs. Next 10 Years

Today’s Chart of the Day is from a BlackRock research paper on concentrated portfolio risks. In it, they graph the top 25 performing stocks over the..

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Chart of the Day: 4.2% Withdrawal Rule

Today's chart from Morningstar shows there is a 90% chance you would not run out of money during your life following these projected safe withdrawal..

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Chart of the Day: 50 Year Cost of College

Today’s Chart of the Day provided from CNBC with data from The College Board shows the average cost of college adjusted for inflation since 1970.

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Chart of the Day: North Port Made the List

Today's Chart of the Day includes the top 10 cities people moved to in 2022 according to Re:Venture Consulting, with data from the US Census Bureau...

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Chart of the Day: Smartphones

Today we have two interesting charts from Bespoke.

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