The collective wisdom said the unemployment rate would clock in at 9.8%. The actual was 9.7 ( Read more... )

Yet Another Depiction Of How Fucked Up Our Health Care System Is


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"California's unemployment rate jumped to 9.3 percent in December from 8.4 percent in November and 5.9 percent a year earlier due to sweeping job cuts across most industries..."

The last time it went above 9% was the 1992-1994 recession. It hit 11%
in 1983.

A quick scan of the graph suggests that this
is the steepest year-to-year increase

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Amazing what you can do with Google, gnuplot and a fanatical devotion
to wasting time.

Here's a plot of 'effective' federal tax rates per household, from
1979-2005. (I assume this means something like (total taxes paid to the
federal government per household) / (household income).

( See what fanatical devotion can produce. )

There is at the moment a bit of a stir over the fact that drug studies ( Read more... )

I hate gnuplot. I'd be terrified to meet the personality
who came up with it's underlying philosophy of making everything
as hard and non-intuitive as possible.

But I digress. You didn't come here to read about such boring glop.

( Read about some seriously sexy statistics )