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244 interactive visual stories organized across 14 topics. Pick a category to see every post in that collection.

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Economics

Growth, trade, and fiscal flows

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Dark navy cinematic illustration of horizontal strike-intensity bars in crimson and teal over industrial silhouettes, Visual Capitalist-style data editorial

Economics

Charted: Days Not Worked per 1,000 — Which OECD Countries Still Lose Material Time to Strikes?

Aug 27, 2026

Dark navy cinematic illustration of apartment silhouettes under a descending teal social-housing share bar chart, Visual Capitalist-style data editorial

Economics

Charted: Social Rental Housing Still Tops 20% of Dwellings in Only Three OECD Countries

Aug 26, 2026

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Politics

Power structures and governance

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Dark navy cinematic illustration of a fading newsroom and printing press beside rising rose ownership bars and a falling teal employment line

Politics

Charted: Newsroom Jobs Fell Faster Where the Last Paper Is Hedge-Fund Owned

Aug 24, 2026

Dark navy cinematic map of U.S. counties with amber empty-masthead motifs marking news deserts and sparse local outlets

Politics

Charted: 1,737 U.S. Counties Have Zero or One Local News Outlet

Aug 23, 2026

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Finance

Bank credit and commercial lending

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Finance

Charted: Insurers Cover Only ~32% of Ransomware Incident Cost — Cash Funds the Rest

Aug 24, 2026

Dark navy cinematic illustration of a firefighter helmet and police badge beside a split funded-ratio gauge in teal and rose

Finance

Charted: Local Police/Fire Plans Are Not Systematically Worse Funded Than Teacher Systems

Aug 24, 2026

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Technology

Infrastructure and digital systems

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Dark navy cinematic Earth limb with an orange debris shell and teal operational satellite ring in mid-LEO, subtle stepped catalog-count bars in the starfield

Technology

Charted: ~40,000 Catalogued Objects Orbit Earth — Only ~11,000 Are Working Satellites

Aug 24, 2026

Dark navy cinematic space hero with cyan rocket launch trails and geometric operator-share bars rising against Earth’s limb

Technology

Charted: One Operator Now Flies ~51% of the World’s Orbital Launches

Aug 24, 2026

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Global Systems

Chokepoints, fiscal plumbing, and structural flows

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Dark navy cinematic scatter of country road-fatality risk versus vehicle density with highway ribbons, Visual Capitalist-style data editorial

Global Systems

Charted: Global Road Deaths Fell per Vehicle — But Kenya Still Sees 350 Deaths per 100k Vehicles

Aug 27, 2026

Dark navy cinematic chart of rising red overfished stock share against a shrinking teal sustainable band over deep-ocean contours

Global Systems

Charted: 37.7% of Assessed Fish Stocks Are Fished at Biologically Unsustainable Levels

Aug 23, 2026

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Energy

Power grids, fuels, and climate stress

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Dark navy cinematic world map with cyan North America gap node, violet Africa finance arcs, amber South Asia and LAC heat, and teal Europe donor streams

Energy

Charted: N. America Holds 22.4% of the $424B Gap — SSA Takes 28% of MDB Flows

Aug 22, 2026

Dark navy cinematic data-viz with amber Top-1/Top-3 concentration bars, teal coastal hazard glow, and a thin lime adaptation-finance stream into a charcoal residual basin

Energy

Aug Concentration Lock: Residual Top-1 Holds 38% — Rebound Risk to 39.5%

Aug 22, 2026

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Industry

Factories, fabs, and physical automation

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Dark navy US corridor map with amber unfinished EV charging gaps interrupting teal completed interstate arcs

Industry

Charted: 38.4% of US NEVI Corridor Miles Still Lack a Qualifying DC-Fast Pair

Aug 24, 2026

Dark navy cinematic data-viz of amber crushed-stone tonnage lagging a cyan real construction put-in-place index with a red intensity wedge

Industry

Charted: US Aggregate Tonnage Fell While Real Construction Put-in-Place Kept Rising

Aug 23, 2026

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Consumer Finance

Household debt, savings, and retail money

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Dark navy cinematic US map with cyan West, amber South, violet Northeast, and teal Midwest debt-share heat plus amber concentration bars

Consumer Finance

Charted: West Holds 28% of US Household Debt — California Alone 15%

Aug 21, 2026

Dark navy cinematic data-viz of a glowing wealth concentration ladder beside a teal mortgage column, amber inverted revolving bars, and a purple money-market correction arc

Consumer Finance

Aug Concentration: Top-1 Equities Still 54% — Official MMF $7.93T (−$92B) While Tip Shares Stay Sticky

Aug 21, 2026

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Capital Markets

Bonds, ETFs, and corporate capital flows

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Dark navy cinematic world map with glowing cyan and amber AI infrastructure spend concentrations over the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific

Capital Markets

Q3 Geographic Split: US Takes 57% of Big-5 AI Capex — Northern Virginia Alone ~11%

Aug 22, 2026

Capital Markets

Charted: US Takes 58% of Big-5 AI Capex Geography — Northern Virginia Alone ~11%

Aug 22, 2026

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Health Economics

Drugs, trials, and the cost of staying alive

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Dark navy cinematic illustration of a closed rural hospital, a long road to a distant emergency department, and a bold +22 min drive-time callout

Health Economics

Charted: Rural Hospital Closures Since 2005 — How Many Extra Minutes to the Nearest ED?

Aug 28, 2026

Dark navy cinematic chart of teal Part D spending bars surging into an amber GLP-1 diabetes spike against a low claims line

Health Economics

Charted: GLP-1 Diabetes Drugs Now Take 10.8% of Medicare Part D Spending

Aug 24, 2026

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Labor & Skills

Wages, unions, and the changing workforce

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Dark navy cinematic illustration comparing a trades worker and a graduate with crossing wage-path lines at a ten-year marker, Visual Capitalist-style data editorial

Labor & Skills

Charted: After License Costs, Electricians Out-Earn Biology Majors by $12,800 at Year 10

Aug 24, 2026

Dark navy cinematic illustration of electrician and plumber silhouettes flanking an amber age-cohort chart highlighting near-retirement shares

Labor & Skills

Charted: Electricians and Plumbers Near Retirement — Where Cohorts Age Fastest

Aug 23, 2026

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Real Estate

Housing, land use, and the built economy

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Dark navy cinematic hero of a converted office tower beside glowing public-cost ledger bars labeled $386k, $63k, and $5k in Visual Capitalist editorial style

Real Estate

Charted: Public Cost per Converted Apartment — NYC ~$386k, Calgary ~$63k, DC’s $5k Framing

Aug 24, 2026

Dark navy cinematic split of an empty glass office tower versus the same tower converting to warm-lit apartments, with bold NYC 212 vs Houston 9 intensity labels

Real Estate

Charted: New York Clears 212 Converted Units per Million Vacant Office SF — Houston Only 9

Aug 23, 2026

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Food & Agriculture

Crops, herds, and the price of a full plate

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Dark navy cinematic hero of four packing-plant silhouettes over a Great Plains corridor with CR4 81% and regional HHI over 3200 callouts

Food & Agriculture

Charted: Four Firms, 81% of Fed Cattle, and the Regions Where the Market Gets Even Tighter

Aug 23, 2026

Dark navy cinematic dollar bill splitting farm wheat fields labeled 18.5 cents from grocery and restaurant marketing margins labeled 81.5 cents

Food & Agriculture

Charted: Only 18.5¢ of the Grocery Dollar Reaches the Farm — Marketing Still Takes the Rest

Aug 23, 2026

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Transport & Logistics

Ports, rails, and the cost of moving things

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Dark navy cinematic logistics illustration of diverging teal spot and amber contract rate ribbons peaking apart above silhouetted trucks and a crimson sector bid ladder

Transport & Logistics

Charted: Van Spot’s Last Month Above Contract Was January 2022 — Food & Beverage Still Took the Biggest Renewal Lift

Aug 26, 2026

Dark navy cinematic logistics illustration of a descending teal rail employment curve crossing an amber terminal-dwell pulse that peaks earlier along freight tracks

Transport & Logistics

Charted: Class I Rail Headcount Fell ~29% Under PSR — Terminal Dwell Rose First

Aug 25, 2026