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TODAY'S recommended economics writing:• Metropolitan budgets are on the brink of catastrophe. (New Republic) • Income and poverty in American counties, nicely mapped. (Economix)• Basic background deficit math. (Brad DeLong) • Google invents a city, puts it on Google maps. [...]
here’s another cool interactive map, via the Detroit News:
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Please click on this link, courtesy of Mark Perry: "Unemployment, The Movie." Once you click play and watch the map [...]
I am sitting in the Upper Class Lounge of Virgin in San Francisco International airport, waiting to be called for my flight (more on my airline experience later).
What could be more appropriate while I wait than to take a look at how California, trashed though it is financially, is deploying [...]
I think this a map of the flora on your skin is potentially really useful, but it also leads to lines like this:
… Your mouth is more like my mouth than it is like your armpit …
One conclusion of the exercise was that the oils on your [...]
Money hacker: The wealthiest kids in the world (via Wall Street Fighter).
The Big Picture has a scary US unemployment map (2004-present).
Alice Schroeder analyzes Buffett’s Burlington purchase–and claims he’s not as all-out bullish on the economy as he sounds.
EcoSalon has the stories behind [...]
When regulation looms
I LIKE this point from Al Gore, via Elizabeth Kolbert, via Brad Plumer: Once the world makes it clear that we are going to follow a roadmap to a low-carbon economy, the best-managed businesses will seek to race out in front of that emerging trend. Indeed, [...]
Scientists spent eight years tracking the movements of 179 great white sharks and discovered that these predators have very predictable migration patterns between Hawaii and the North American coast. Dots below show approximate locations where 68 sharks tagged with satellite sensors were recorded at various [...]
And the really scary one controls today's Republican Party: the curse of Richard Nixon (and Barry Goldwater) in action.
Matthew Yglesias writes:
Matthew Yglesias: White Men Are Not Very Progressive: A nice map from dreaminonempty at Open Left illustrates the vote share won among white men in the 2008 presidential [...]
Can you draw a map of the lower 48 states? Al Franken can.
This is apparently the hot new thing in D.C. although I can remember Franken doing this [...]
A video of a map showing job gains and losses per month by changing bubble sizes over cities.
Very interesting to watch the evolution of the recession (and previous expansion).
Detroit’s collapse seems independent of the rest of the country.
It also emphasizes that the recession appears [...]
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