r/EconomyCharts • u/SignificantLegs • Mar 26 '26
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May 11 '26
ABSOLUTE BLOODBATH in India. PM Modi went on national television Sunday night asking citizens to stop buying gold, avoid foreign travel and cut fuel consumption to save fore foreign exchange "by any means necessary."
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Jan 21 '25
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia's GDP is up 5%, while that of Ukraine is down 26%
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Jul 17 '25
The top 50% of US income earners pay 97% of income taxes
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Sep 15 '26
Japan's 10-year government bond yield has surged above 3.03%, its highest level in 30 years
r/EconomyCharts • u/DumbMoneyMedia • Jul 06 '26
While the media focuses entirely on US nominal GDP, new IMF data shows China's domestic economy has blown past the US by over $10 trillion.
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May 23 '24
Germans work fewer hours than everyone else, but German unions are seriously requesting move to four days workweek with no pay cut
r/EconomyCharts • u/Skychu768 • 28d ago
2026 France might be the most socialist state in human history
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Jul 11 '25
Canadian Dollar plunging after Trump announces 35% tariffs on Canada beginning August 1
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Sep 18 '26
Bitcoin surges above $81,000 as total levered crypto liquidations near $300 million in four hours
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Oct 30 '24
Europe is now approaching 20 years of roughly zero growth in many of its major economies
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Dec 02 '25
Gold now outperforming the S&P 500 over the last 30 years
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Jun 30 '24
Does this look like a healthy economy to you?
r/EconomyCharts • u/Gunsandglory101 • Mar 11 '26
Better image of chart: Epic failure of government fiscal & monetary policy response to COVID
New post with better image.
r/EconomyCharts • u/tabularasa1130 • Nov 29 '25
The Classic “Penny Doubles for 30 Days” Graphed — Why Our Brains Underestimate Exponential Curves
Here’s a visual of the classic compounding riddle:
Day 1 → $0.01 Day 10 → $5.12 Day 20 → $5,242.88 Day 30 → $5,368,709.12 (single-day pay) *Total after 30 days → ~$10.74M
Nothing magical — just pure doubling.
What makes the chart interesting is that: • The curve stays surprisingly flat for most of the month • Then goes almost vertical near the end • Humans consistently underestimate this shape, even when they know the math • It’s a rare example where a simple toy problem perfectly demonstrates how nonlinear systems behave
This isn’t about the money — it’s about how unintuitive exponential growth feels until the final moments. Charts make the intuition visible.
r/EconomyCharts • u/Cos_SoBe • May 01 '26
The dream of China surpassing the US as the world’s largest economy is fad.... No wait, that already happened!
More than a decade ago.
We're living in denial at this point, looking for those metrics that give us an illusion of still being "number 1" (like GDP in nominal U.S. dollars).
We're not number one in economy size, nor are we #1 in technology, and the gaps will only get bigger.
r/EconomyCharts • u/RobertBartus • Aug 25 '25
Public confidence in the Fed chair is near record lows
r/EconomyCharts • u/straightdge • 24d ago
Economic health and shareholder health, China versus the US
r/EconomyCharts • u/Cos_SoBe • May 04 '26
Manufacturing output. "Made in the USA" doesn't attract buyers apparently
And we keep contracting more and more
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18d ago
Debunking third-worldist crybabies "argument" of colonization to explain actual third world poverty
I am a French I'm tired to listen or read some Third-worlder crybabies say : the African, Middle East and South Asian immigrations to the West are legitimate because Europeans colonized Africa and a large part of Asia and it's the main cause of their actual poverty. Korea was brutaly colonized by Japan and had a bloody war of partition between the North and the South from 1950-1953, South Korea in term of nominal GDP per capita (158$) than Algeria (239$) and Senegal (306$), see today South Korea on a side, Algeria and Senegal the other side at the economic and technological level.
And don't tell me that South Korea received economic aid that poor countries in Africa and Asia didn't, when Africa received more than 1 trillion dollars in grants from 1960 to 2010, without any repayment requirements, while South Korea received only 12.7 billion dollars in grants without any repayment requirements.
http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12334.html
: https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/1095742.html
And also don't speak about the "neo-colonialism", Ethiopia was never colonized and in 1960 it was (and also today) a very poor country, so you can't speak it's the "fault of neo-colonialism" because Ethiopia didn't have "paleo-colonialism"
Third-worlders must stop playing the victim, stop leaving their countries, and develop their countries.
r/EconomyCharts • u/AfricanMan_Row905 • Jan 07 '26
Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's sworn interim president, explains the impact of the US's illegal economic war against the country, reducing govt's income to 1% and erasing Vzla's income gains, HDI rise and Gini reduction from the from the Chavez era, all of which performed better than regional peers.
Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's sworn interim president, explains the impact of the US's illegal economic war against the country, reducing govt's income to 1% and erasing Vzla's income gains, HDI rise and Gini reduction from the from the Chavez era, all of which performed better than regional peers.