Infographic: All About Money
I’ve blogged about ways to represent large numbers that uses images of a trillion dollars stacked on pallets. Now, thanks to Kostas, my financial adviser, here’s a fascinating chart that’s all about money.
To view, be sure to click on the ‘+’ symbol in the upper left of the screen a few times until you can see the chart detail. There’s graphical representation of the value of dollars, thousands, millions, billions and trillions. It’s all here, from the cost of buying the world a Coke – and teaching the world to sing – to the value of $1000 invested at 5% over time:
Given the focus on the 1% that the Occupy movement has, this part of the chart shows that they might want to narrow the focus to the top 1/500th percent:
Elsewhere in the chart it shows that the 1.6 million US households which make up the top 1% claim a fifth of all household wealth ($2 trillion) while the next 9 million households share the next $2 trillion, down to the 63 million households making up the bottom 50% who earn below $55,000 annually. That, together with the chart showing the hourly income of CEOs today compared to production line workers, makes for some compelling infographics to paper the walls of your tent in Zuccotti Park.
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