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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 shows number of times the debt ceiling has been lifted broken down by presidency, political party is marked in either red or blue

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 shows an analysis from January 19997 to February 2012

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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chart displays working hours from 2017 to today with an evident decrease following 2020

Chart of the Day: Working Less

Today’s Chart of the Day from Bloomberg is called, “Americans are Working Less.” After the pandemic, many are working fewer hours a week.

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chart shoes the return breakdown of the individual stocks inside the Russell 3000, 1987 - 2023

Chart of the Day: Only One Out of Three

Today’s Chart of the Day from BlackRock shows that only 34%, or roughly one out of three, stocks outperformed the index for the last 35 years.

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