xkcd has another tour de force today, a big chart about Money. It's a bit unwieldy but was interesting to go through. I think some things would have been better as a bar chart or other graph (like past presidential campaign fundraising). Be sure to catch "Five things I learned while researching this chart" in the middle right of the billions section. Note also "US spending on wars" and "size of derivatives market by year". It's not that derivatives are bad, but shouldn't something that big be regulated at least a little bit, like to guarantee some reporting and transparency so we know what it is.
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