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Chart Of The Day

Line graph illustrating the number of hours a worked per worker since 1974 for select economies - some of the lines represent the US in white, France red, and Germany blue.

Chart of the Day: US Work Ethic

Today’s Chart of the Day is from the Financial Times and shows the number of annual hours worked, per worker, for select economies since 1974.

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A map of the United States displaying the percentage of personal income paid toward state and local taxes by state in 2024. States with the highest tax percentages are depicted in dark red, while those with the lower percentages transition through shades of orange to yellow.

Chart of the Day: State Taxes

Today’s Chart of the Day is from Visualcapitalist.com and shows the percentage of personal income paid toward state and local taxes by state in 2024.

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Bar chart from 2000 to current with homes for-sale in blue and for-rent in yellow

Chart of the Day: Short 1.5 Million Housing Units

Today’s Chart of the Day from ResiClub shows that the US housing market is short 1.5 million housing units. As with all things, the causes, fixes,..

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Green (required gain) and gray (loss) bar graph, illustrating how one needs a 100% gain to recover from a 50% loss in the stock markets.

Chart of the Day: Recovering from Losses is Hard

Today’s Chart of the Day is from Compounding Quality ( Compounding Quality (@QCompounding) / X) and shows the percentage gain needed to recover from..

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map of the United States divided by county, Florida's mega region is shown in light purple

Chart of the Day: Florida's 6%

Today’s Chart of the Day with data from the US Census Bureau compiled by Michael Arouet shows that 52% of the US population lives in seven “Mega..

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Map of the world in gray with green areas illustrating that 50% of the world's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) comes from areas that only make up 3.6% of the total world's land mass.

Chart of the Day: Half of World GDP

Today’s Chart of the Day from Epic Maps, @Locati0ns on X, shows that 50% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (aka GDP, which is a measure of all..

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Women shown in purple, men in green

Chart of the Day: Odds to Live at Age 65

Today’s Chart of the Day from JP Morgan shows the probability of how long you'll live if you reach age 65.

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Bar graph illustrating hours of sleep showing years 1942 ,1990, 2001,2013 and 2023. The blue portion of the bar represents 5 hours or less, black 6-7 and gray 8+ hours.

Chart of the Day: 20% Less Than 5 Hours

Today’s Chart of the Day is from Bloomberg and shows the amount of sleep Americans are getting is less and less.

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Chart showing average from 1896 to 2024 with a black line

Chart of the Day: The Dow's Double Double

Today’s Chart of the Day is from the S&P Dow Jones Indices showing the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index. It started in 1896 at 40..

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