January 24, 2010 - 8:44 am
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Here’s an interesting, interactive, graphic that shows Netflix rental frequency per neighborhood, per movie.
January 4, 2010 - 11:03 pm
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So if you lost your firm billions of dollars, laid off tens of thousands and indirectly caused millions to lose their jobs and drove the unemployment rate to 10.3% well, the good news is it didn’t cost you your job! 92% of management in TARP funds recipients still have their jobs!
From A Fair Deal [...]
January 3, 2010 - 9:17 pm
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Fascinating article on what’s happened with the bankers bailout. One intriguing quote compares executive compensation to the average employee::
Over the last 50 years, the ratio of top pay to average pay at public companies has multiplied roughly 11 times (24:1 to 275:1). That’s more pay in one workday for the chief executive than his [...]
December 2, 2009 - 3:59 am
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I was arguing with someone about global warming and one of his claims was that global warming is a political winner for the democratic party. I don’t think so. As a measure, here is a poll from CNN just before the election showing what people think is important. Environment and/or global warming? [...]
November 19, 2009 - 8:02 pm
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There’s talk that Bing has gotten to a 10% market share in search. Apple Insider instead points out that the study didn’t include a big part of Google’s search business (you know, maps, video, local directory). Here’s a chart showing how Google is dominating and pushing nearly 90%:
November 5, 2009 - 1:19 am
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Here’s one of those info-graphics to get all the gold bugs in a dizzy:
November 1, 2009 - 11:01 pm
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Sorry for the long delay. I’ve been playing around a bit.
July 17, 2009 - 8:01 pm
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From Conor Clarke is this chart plotting the effective federal tax rate of the upper 1%.
First off, never trust a chart that doesn’t start at 0 but anyway. What’s interesting is that this is the effective rate being paid (not the marginal rate).
Here’s some related information that shows how income has grown for the [...]
July 15, 2009 - 7:56 pm
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This graph has been making the rounds (I got it from Barry Ritholtz’s). It shows the percentage change in unemployment (Y-axis) and the months since the official start of the recession.
What’s particularly dramatic about this is employment continues to worsen and over a much longer period of time than past recessions. E.g. this [...]
July 5, 2009 - 9:04 pm
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I’ve never seen clouds like this plus it was at sunset plus I was walking to Columbus Circle.