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Historical Marginal Income Tax Rates

Day 4 of 28 Days of Tax Data.

I always enjoy a graph of the marginal tax rate (i.e. the tax rate applied to the income of the very wealthy by the Federal Government). But I don’t know why they needed a 3-D line? From Starboard Broadside

Second graph is of the same data but not as pretty. From Balloon Juice

Here is one I created in 2007.
Income of top 0.1% vs top marginal tax magnafing glass

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Prices, Inflation and Deflation: Great Depression vs Great Recession

Another infographic comparing the last 18 months to the Great Depression. This time I am focusing on Prices, Inflation and Deflation.

Inflation 1930s

Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Price Index History Table

If you want more see Inflation and Deflation created by WallStats

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Unemployment: Great Depression vs Great Recession

I created this infographic to compare the unemployment rate over the last 18 months to the Great Depression.

Unemployment1930s

Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics: Current Population Survey (CPS)

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Who caused the Deficit?

Some more data visualization goodies…
Two methods for presenting the source for the 1.2 trillion dollar US federal deficit:

From the New York Times
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From ThinkProgress
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Oil Prices 1999-2008

An unusual visualization of oil prices:

Oil Prices

Found via SimpleComplexity on Flickr from Whatype

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U.S. Unemployment verses Europe: March 2009

From CEPR, for the first time (since 1993) the U.S. unemployment equals the total unemployment of the first 15 countries in the European Union:
Unemployment

U.S. unemployment rate ranks 4th to last among the major OECD countries: unemployment

Found via ChartPorn

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