Debunking the unbearably stupid by kos Aug 02, 2009 You see Barack Obama’s totally real Kenyan birth certificate that is not photoshopped and completely believable unlike those phony Hawaiian documents? I mean, if there’s one country that you know won’t scam you, it’s Kenya! Yet some people persist in casting suspicious glances at the document. […]
The Wall Street Journal had a nice interactive [The Great Recession: A Downturn Sized Up] comparing this recession with previous recessions using a number of economic parameters [expressed as percentage change since the last report as a way of normalizing the data]. I’ve reformatted it and the zFacts.com National Debt graph to have the same […]
These financial indicators are very important to the people who follow them [and understand them]. Here’s an amateur comparison between the indexes during The Great Depression and Now. I’ve deliberately left off some of the y-axis labels because things have changed so much since then [also note that the time-lines for the older graphs vary, […]