david coe, business copywriter sydney
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The power of graphicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rQbP63Qec
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$100The most counterfeited denomination in the world
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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$10,000About one year’s pay for the average humanon earth
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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$1 millionNot as big of a pile as you thought, huh?
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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$100 millionFits nicely on a standard sized pallet
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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$1 billionYou will need help robbing a bank
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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$1 trillionIf you spent $1 milliona day since Jesus was born, you would not have spent $1 trillionby now
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Double-stacked palletsof $100m each
Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$1 trillionHow $1 trillion compares with a jumbo jet, a soccer field and an American football field
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The semi-trailer
Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$15 trillionThe US national debt is about to exceed 100% of America’s gross domestic product
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The semi-trailer
Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
$115 trillionThe unfunded liabilities of the US govt, such as Medicare, social security, and military and civil servant pensions
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The$15tr already owed
Unfunded future liabilities of the US govt
Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us
Bar charts
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Govt support for farmersas % of gross farm receipts 2007-09 averageWhere something
sits in the rankings
Bar charts
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Govt support for farmersas % of gross farm receipts 2007-09 averageWhere something
sits in the rankingsThe relative size of values
Bar charts
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Govt support for farmersas % of gross farm receipts 2007-09 averageWhere something
sits in the rankingsThe relative size of valuesImportant aspectsof the data
One of the lowest levels of govt support in the OECD
Art charts
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How numbers change over time
Art charts
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How numbers change over time
Art charts
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How numbers change over time
Source: Elders
Flow charts
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How entitiesrelate
Line charts
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How seriesrelate
Line charts
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How a current situation compares with history
Line charts
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How a current situation compares with history
Line charts
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How a current situation compares with historyHow a current situation compares with targets
Line + bars
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To compare annual and quarterly data
Tables
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Important trends can be hard to spot
Bar charts
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To highlightcritical numbers
Bar charts
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To highlightcritical numbers