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• Dec 8, 2016

  Chart of the day: The U.S. sells China a lot of soybeans

  The governor of an ag-heavy state will be the ambassador to China under President-Elect Trump.

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• Dec 7, 2016

  Chart of the day: American students are sliding

  The latest Pisa rankings so the U.S. is below average in math.

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• Dec 6, 2016

  Chart of the day: Consumer spending is up

  In a survey, Americans said they spent $98 per day, on average.

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• Dec 5, 2016

  What Trump’s Housing Secretary nominee thinks about the government

  

  Trump has just chosen retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson as his pick for Housing Secretary.

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• Nov 29, 2016

  Chart of the day: Charitable donations from the rich are way up

  

  Meanwhile, donations from middle- and lower-income Americans are dropping.

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• Nov 24, 2016

  Chart of the day: the cost of Thanksgiving

  

  The average price for a modest ten-person dinner dipped below $50 this year.

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• Nov 23, 2016

  Chart of the day: just under half the world has internet access

  

  In the U.S., 74.6 percent of people use the internet, which is actually pretty low compared to other wealthy nations.

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• Nov 19, 2016

  Chart of the day: VC money and Silicon Valley real estate

  

  The folks over at MatterMark looked at thousands of VC deals and Zillow housing data over a decade and found a (perhaps unsurprising) correlation.  They also checked average housing price against the volume of venture capital deals.  Courtesy:MatterMark

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• Nov 18, 2016

  Donald Trump’s first 100 days plan, annotated

  

  What the president-elect says he'll do, with our notes.

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• Nov 18, 2016

  Chart of the day: Housing start numbers

  

  New construction got a nice bump in October.

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