This is quite fascinating — and surprising:
The folks who are most against government spending are also the biggest beneficiaries of it — and also, vice-versa.
Balance of Payments between States and the Federal Government
Most Popular Netflix Show in Each State (2018)
Via the Washington Post, this fascinating look at what’s most popular on a state by state basis: One of the core assumptions about...
The Inequality Delusion
You’ve got the wealth gap all wrong. You think it is bad. The reality is its far far worse: The inequality delusion: Why...
GDP Ranking (1960-2017)
The Dynamic Graph (Data Visualization) Shows the Top 10 Countries with Most GDP from 1960 to 2017. This Country GDP Ranking includes...
Supply of New U.S. Housing
This is fascinating: Consider this: from 1968 to 2008, a span of 40 years, there was only one year in which fewer new housing units were...
Urbanization Over the Past 500 Years
Fascinating chart showing how rapidly the world population has urbanized: Source: Our World In Data You should...
Partisan Conflict Index (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
I was reading an NBER paper about the political bias of analysts (more on this later) when I read about the Federal Reserve Bank of...
Bad Buybacks
I was working on my regular Bloomberg column, taking a closer look at some companies in the news (here and here) — GE, GM, Apple,...
How High Was Midterm Turnout?
From FiveThirtyEight: The 2018 wave was indisputably unlike any other in recent midterm history: It came with exceptionally high turnout....
