From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers 2007

by Catherine on June 29, 2008

in Income by Occupation, Incomes of the Super Rich

The pay scale in the graph is in US$ millions therefore the top hedge fund manager, John Paulson, had an income in 2007 of $3.7 billion ($3,700,000,000).

Data from Institutional Investor’s Alpha Magazine via Telegraph.co.uk.

Tagged as: Income - High, Income - Individual

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Annual Inflation: Transportation vs Medical Care (1935-2007)

by Catherine on June 22, 2008

in History of the United States, VE Infographics

I have plotted the annual inflation (CPI-U) for transportation sector (cars, trucks, airline fares, public transportation, gasoline, repairs, insurance etc…) and medical care sector (prescription drugs, medical supplies, doctor visits, dentists, hospital services, insurance etc…) from 1935 to 2007.

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Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics

[tags]United States, Inflation, Medical Care, Transportation[/tags]

Tagged as: Area Graph, Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI, Gasoline, Inflation, IRS, United States

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UK Statistics

by Catherine on June 20, 2008

in Other

Department for Work and Pensions: Statistics for Households Below Average Income and Income Inequality in the United Kingdom

Tagged as: United Kingdom

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US Subprime Loans by State (January 2008)

by Catherine on June 11, 2008

in Other

I found this interactive graphic on a site called Many Eyes displaying data about subprime loans by state. Click on the thumbnail to load the graph.

6/29/2008 I had to remove the interactive graph from my site because it was crashing the site search.

Tagged as: Blog, Choropleth Map, Debt, Federal Reserve, Interactive Graphic, Text, United States

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Gold Price (1791-2007)

by Catherine on June 8, 2008

in History of the United States, VE Infographics

I have plotted the market price of gold in the Untied States from 1791 to 2007, i.e. New York Market Price. Keep in mind that there was an official price of gold set by the United States’ Government while the US was on the gold standard.

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Data from MeasuringWorth.org

[tags]United States, Gold Price[/tags]

Tagged as: CIA, Gold, Inflation, Line Graph, United States

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Gasoline in the American Budget

by Catherine on June 1, 2008

in Other

Screenshots from a New York Times Interactive Graphic by Matthew Bloch, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox that shows the different parts of the average consumer’s budget and the change in price (inflation) over the last year. I have highlighted gasoline: share of spending is 5.2% with a price increase of 26%. If you go to the Interactive Graphic you can zoom on different categories (as you can see from the second screenshot).

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