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Money

Earning, saving, owning. Prices and balance sheets at the scale of a household.

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01Money·9 min

Forty trillion, and nobody signed for it

The national debt is not weather. Every dollar of it was authorised by a named person in a recorded vote, and the register goes back to 1790 — including the eighteen months in 1835 when the whole thing came to thirty-three thousand dollars. The plate below counts the current figure forward from Treasury's last close and marks the sixteen decisions that bent the line.

02Money·6 min

Five wires to the kitchen table

A market screen shows you several thousand numbers, of which perhaps five ever reach your house. This is what those five are wired to, and what the rest of the board is for.

03Money·7 min

The boring half of getting richer

Almost everything written about money is written about the exciting half, which is also the half that decides almost nothing.

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