Visualize the U. S. Economy

There’s a cool map at Fixr that illustrates the U. S. economy on a state-by-state basis, depicting gross state product and GSP per capita. If the map also illustrated the state’s Gini factor (a measure of inequality), I think it would be even more informative.

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  • Guarneri Link

    Call for the resuscitator for Reynolds!! CA isn’t the darkest green!

    Alaska and DC illustrate the arbitrary nature of where you draw the lines to measure GDP. The most interesting state to me is MI. My how the mighty have fallen.

    I’d bet that NY, CA, IL, CT, MA and DC (maybe HI and FL) would lead in inequality. See a pattern?

  • steve Link

    The goal of conservatives is to make us look like the old states that made up the confederacy. This map might make you want to think twice about that.

    Steve

  • Guarneri Link

    “The goal of conservatives is to make us look like the old states that made up the confederacy.”

    Been raiding the Norco cabinet again, Steve? Or just becoming the new keeper of the Michael Reynolds hysterical assertion Cup?

  • steve Link

    Who says you are the only one who gets to throw an occasional bomb? 🙂 Now, tell me again, what part of the country makes up the conservative base?

    Steve

  • ... Link

    Yeah, Florida is so fucking Old South you wouldn’t believe it. Why, just the other day I saw a white person in a mall!

  • ... Link

    It was my wife, but still….

  • Andy Link
  • What Mr. O’Brien, young as he is, does not understand is that people differ in their willingness and even ability to sustain risk. The majority of Americans simply don’t have the ability to sustain risk.

    The stock market has always been rigged in favor of the largest “investors” but today with high speed trading the small, individual investor’s chances of success are even smaller. So the small investor puts his or her money into a fund. There is ample evidence that most funds do no better than chance.

    Simply because the DJIA rises does not mean most people who invest in stock market funds are making money. It’s more likely that a few are making a lot of money while most lose a little.

    I suspect that Mr. O’Brien is a greater fool.

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