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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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Chart illustrating average US annual income, annual expenditures, and average credit card spending, which supersedes income by 38%.

If America Was a Household

Today’s Chart of the Day is from @hedgeye on X, formerly known as Twitter, and shows what a typical family income would look like if the US was a..

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Data points on top 20 cities put together in a table. Florida cities highlighted in yellow: Fort Myers, South Bradenton, Altamonte Springs, Winter Park, Sarasota, Casselberry, Bradenton

Chart of the Day: Florida Top 7 out of 20

Today’s Chart of the Day was shared by my colleague Christine Davis, Director of Commercial Banking Services at Crews Bank & Trust.

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