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What costs more in 2011?
After seeing this article and graphic on the rising cost of food in The New York Times week in review, I was curious about how prices for other stuff has changed in the past year. The Bureau of Labor...
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xkcd: Cost of everything
Randall Munroe of xkcd charts the things that money pays for, from the item off the dollar menu all the way up to the total estimated economic productivity of the human race. Following the same scheme...
View ArticleHow consumers suck at math
Derek Thompson for The Atlantic on how retail uses our numeric biases to their advantage: Now that I've just told you that consumers try to avoid additional payments, I should add that there are two...
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Billionaires of the world ranked and charted
How wealthy are the richest people in the world? How do they compare to each other, and how does their net worth change over time? Bloomberg just put up an interactive tool to answer such questions,...
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Super Bowl ad costs vs. company profit during game
Ritchie King for Quartz compared money spent on Super Bowl ads — now about $3.75 million for a 30-second spot — to how much the companies make on average in 3 and a half hours (the average length of a...
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Rappers’ claimed wealth versus actual wealth
Allison McCann for Businessweek graphed rappers' claimed wealth in their songs versus their actual wealth. Fresh off of Jay-Z's new album is the track Versus, on which he chides fellow hip-hop artists...
View ArticleEconomics of airline class
Wendover Productions explains basic economics of airline classes. The passengers in first class and business, assuming seats are occupied, make much more for airlines than the economy class. Sounds...
View ArticleSame money, different counting strategies
Condé Nast Traveler got 70 people from 70 different countries to count money on camera. Many times I found myself wondering, “Why would you ever do it like that?” There’s a metaphor for data and its...
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When Americans Reach $100k in Savings
It was reported that 1 in 6 millennials have at least $100,000 saved. Is this right? It seems high. I looked at the data to find out and then at all of the age groups. Read More
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Saving for Retirement and Age
People tend to have more money saved up over time, but range and variation also grow, and often it’s not enough. Read More
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How Much You Should Be Saving for Retirement
There are a lot of variables to consider, but for people of middle income, here's a suggestion, based on when you start saving and when you want to retire. Read More
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Billionaire’s spending scaled to your net worth
We hear about billionaires spending millions of dollars on ads, acquisitions, etc. It seems like a ridiculous amount of money, but that’s partially because us common folk think of the millions of...
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Printing money at the speed of various wages
Neal Agarwal used a money printing metaphor to depict differences in various wages. The higher the wage, the faster the money prints. Keep scrolling and you also see big company revenues, finished with...
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✚ Big Money You Can Relate To (The Process #76)
This week, a few projects went up on the internets about money and spending, each with different goals and approaches. In this issue of The Process, we look at each more closely.Tags: money, scale
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Who Funds the World Health Organization
A couple of weeks ago — or maybe it was a couple of years ago, I’m not sure — the administration announced it would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization. Here's what that does to the...
View ArticleData on loans issued through the Paycheck Protection Program
The Paycheck Protection Program was established to provide aid to small businesses. It’s a $669-billion loan program. The data for 4.8 million loans, amounting to $521 billion so far, is now available...
View ArticleA million dollars vs. a billion visualized with a road trip
A million dollars. A billion dollars. The latter is 1,000 times more than the former. Just add a few zeros, right? Tom Scott used a road trip to visualize the actual difference in scale. Scott starts...
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Who Makes More Money
Someone mentioned that $400,000+ per year was commonplace in American households. That seemed like an odd comment, so here’s a chart that shows what percentage of households make at least a certain...
View ArticleNot so likely life of The Simpsons
For The Atlantic, Dani Alexis Ryskamp compares the financials of The Simpsons against present day medians, arguing that the fictional family’s lifestyle is no longer attainable: The purchasing power of...
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Tooth Fairy Exchange Rate
Calculating how much money a kid gets after exchanging all twenty baby teeth.Read More
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