Here’s an impressive infographic by the Chicago Tribune, on the national debt of the United States, 1940-2010.
Found via Visualizing Economics.
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It’s not that impressive. Actually it looks a complete mess hastily flung together to fill up some space. It tells us the debt’s big – well no sh*t, Sherlock. But it offers about as much of the trumpeted “understanding” as a shot of a heap of dollar bills. Possibly on fire. Or being shovelled into a cement mixer (also possibly on fire) by a stereotypical high-spending bureaucrat or corporate plutocrat, depending on one’s political taste. Yes, it conveys about that much, minus the design flair. The key data aren’t even consistent between segments.
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I agree. There are much better graphics at that web site that this re-post from the new York Times