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Chart Of The Day

US map with county lines, pink means negative change and dark green is positive, most of Florida is dark green

Chart of the Day: Population Shift

Today’s Chart of the Day is from Meghan Malas with data from the US Census Bureau.

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Chart of the Day: Life Satisfaction Over Time

Today’s Chart of the Day is from an article discussed in "A Wealth of Common Sense" by Ben Carlson with data from a research paper by David..

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S&P 500 shown in red, dollar shown in blue

Chart of the Day: Inflation vs. Stocks

Today’s Chart of the Day comes from Charlie Bilello with information from YCharts. Over the last 30 years, inflation reduced the value of a dollar by..

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Black and white bar graph showing the average number of months it takes to recover from stock market drops and illustrates the difference between a Pullback, a Correction and a Bear Market.

Chart of the Day: Names/Times of Market

Today’s Chart of the Day from CFRA Research goes all the way back to 1945 and shows the average number of months it takes to “recover” from market..

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chart shows 1920 to 2005, data shown by black line

Chart of the Day: Holding Period

Today’s Chart of the Day is from Dresdner Kleinwort Macro Research and notes the average holding period of stocks since 1920.

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Chart is a green bar-graph illustrating the monthly percent change of the cost of motor vehicle insurance from January 2022 to January 2024. Those costs rose every month last year, leading to the highest one-year spike since 1976.

Chart of the Day: 20% Increase in Insurance

Today’s Chart is from Charlie Bilello, with data from the US Bureau of Labor, showing that auto insurance has increased more than 20% from last year.

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Increase from 1950 - 2020 shown in blue line on chart

Chart of the Day: Increasing Chances To Reach Age 100

Today’s Chart of the Day shows the percentage of people who have reached the age of 100.

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A chart sourced from the Wall Street Journal, based on data from the Labor Department, illustrates a 25% cumulative increase in grocery and dining-out expenses since 2020. Additionally, the analysis highlights a 30-year high, with 11% of disposable income designated for food expenditures. The rise is attributed to elevated labor and food costs, with anticipated exacerbation due to forthcoming higher minimum wage laws.

Chart of the Day: 25% More for Food

Today’s Chart of the Day is from the Wall Street Journal utilizing data from the Labor Department, showing that you are not imagining things; there..

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Charts show number of realtors per 1,000 jobs divided by state

Chart of the Day: Number of Real Estate Agents

Today’s Chart of the Day comes from Dr. Torsten Slok from Apollo and shows the number of real estate agents per 1,000 jobs.

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