How Uber took over New York City
[OC] How Uber took over New York City from r/dataisbeautiful Source: /r/DataIsBeautiful Previously: How the...
Global Asset Capitalizations
Source: SIFMA Last week, I had a simple question: What is the market capitalization of US and Global Stocks? Fixed income? Other...
Sharp Decline in Childhood Mortality
The default setting on modern humanity is for things to continually get better. Here is the New York Times: “Two decades ago,...
New York City Exodus?
Last Real Estate & 9/11 related post today: It is somewhat ironic that New Yorkers by and large stuck it out post-September 11th;...
Mortgage Debt Hits Record: So What?
Source: WSJ File this one under more “denominator blindness:” Every now and again, a data point comes along...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to 4%
@TBPInvictus here. Real GDP Percent Change from Quarter One Year Ago, Annually, End of Period Source: FRED The Bureau of...
Your Chances of Dying
It’s the summer, and so we see the usual uptick in coverage of shark attacks and other relatively rare events is in the news. This...
Health spending and life expectancy
Source: The Economist Here is the take from across the Atlantic: “Republican reluctance to embrace health care, despite the...
BBRG: New Inequality Data Is a Gift to Campaign Sloganeers
New Inequality Data Is a Gift to Campaign Sloganeers The Fed developed a data set that throws wealth disparities into high relief....
The Puzzle in the Labor Data
The U.S. Labor Market Isn’t all That Healthy Underemployment is a problem that isn’t measured well by the official data. Bloomberg,...