Graphic artist Cameron Zotter picked up discarded receipts over a 48 hour period and mapped out how far they had traveled from the point of purchase. See the huge version on Flickr or click below:
Chart Porn notes that MIT has a higher-tech version of this.
Recently, our national debt passed the $40 trillion mark, which is $90,000 per head. The more important question is whether the economy grows faster than the cost of servicing that debt.
Manager Mike Arold is watching one signal, in particular, for cues.
The fund manager sees a particularly hostile “exhaustion syndrome” that has been a hallmark of the worst market outcomes in recent decades.
The stock market is getting scarier. But that could bring opportunities for value investors.
