eat the crumbs

“In the past 25 years oil companies have paid more than three times in taxes what they have made in profits.”

A recession is defined as two quarters of negative economic growth. We haven’t even had one quarter of negative growth.

Exaggeration with Maps

All maps distort whatever data they try to present. The examples below show, in increasing levels of magnitude, how badly this exaggeration can accumulate with scale….
Perhaps most exaggerated of all though has to be the images that are typically given to show the accumulation of “space junk” — remnants of space flights and defunct satellites, etc. In this image each pixel represents approximately 114 miles; so a piece of debris the size of a car is marked with a point the size of Long Island — easily a 6 order of magnitude exaggeration.

Big bite out of the Tiger -or- Can government ever be greedy?

more graph humor and song chart memes

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
For it is not wise to ask such questions.

oh my head hurts. (HT: Here)

Convenience stores paid roughly $7.6 billion in credit card fees last year, while making $3.4 billion in profits.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that the more government spends on healthcare the more we put our economic stability in danger. Currently, 23% of federal spending goes towards Medicare and Medicaid … that is an increase of 6% from 1975.