Archive for the 'Consumption' Category

Consumer Spending vs Wealth 1953-2008 [White House]

Published on March 20, 2009 in Consumption, Line Graph, Net Worth and United States. Closed

From Economic Report of the President found via Economix Blog – NYTimes.com. The graph compares the % change in consumer spending (dark line) to % change in household wealth.

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Adoption of New Technology since 1900

Published on February 18, 2008 in Consumption, Line Graph and United States. 15 Comments

Historical graph showing the adoption of new technologies in the United States (designed by Nicholas Felton that I found via the New York Times). For example look at percentage of households that had telephones over the last 100 years and compared this to the time it took for cellphones to be adopted.

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[tags]consumption, technology, United States[/tags]

Popularity: 23% [?]