# Chart of the Day

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## Posts
- [The $1 Trillion Line Item Nobody Talks About](https://chartoftheday.co/p/the-1-trillion-line-item-nobody-talks-about): The bill for old borrowing just passed the entire U.S. military budget.
- [Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, the Bill Is $8.7 Trillion](https://chartoftheday.co/p/twenty-five-years-after-9-11-the-bill-is-8-7-trillion): And the Biggest Piece Has Not Been Paid Yet
- [Your Gas Is Up 41% Since February. Tomorrow's CPI Will Prove It.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/your-gas-is-up-41-since-february-tomorrow-s-cpi-will-prove-it): That's $500 a Year Out of Your Pocket, Before the Report Even Hits.
- [Foreigners Used to Fund Half Our Debt. Not Anymore.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/foreigners-used-to-fund-half-our-debt-not-anymore): The Missing 18 Cents Is Coming Out of Your Pocket.
- [Everyone Calls This a Real Estate Problem. It Isn't.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/everyone-calls-this-a-real-estate-problem-it-isn-t): Office buildings are collateral for loans. Those loans live inside pension funds, bond funds, and insurance companies — and delinquencies just hit 12.3%, another all-time record.
- [In January 2000, 67.3% of Working-Age Americans Were in the Labor Force. Today It's 61.6%.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/in-january-2000-67-3-of-working-age-americans-were-in-the-labor-force-today-it-s-61-6): The Fed may raise rates for the first time in three years on September 16. If your retirement plan assumes rates fall from here, that assumption is worth testing this week.
- [The Top 1% Paid 38.4% of All Federal Income Taxes in 2023](https://chartoftheday.co/p/the-top-1-paid-38-4-of-all-federal-income-taxes-in-2023): The bottom 50% covered 3.3% of the bill. One group is 1% of all filers. The other is half the country."
- [In 2023, AI Barely Showed up in Layoff Reports. Now It's the Leading Cause.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/in-2023-ai-barely-showed-up-in-layoff-reports-now-it-s-the-leading-cause): It went from 5% of all tracked job cuts in 2025 to 24% this year. The pace is not flattening.
- ["September Is Bad for Stocks" Sounds Like Folklore. The 75-Year Record Says Otherwise.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/september-is-bad-for-stocks-sounds-like-folklore-the-75-year-record-says-otherwise): The same 75-year record that makes September ugly makes November the best month of the year. Selling now means missing that.
- [Your Grandkids Aren't Being Dramatic About Not Affording a House](https://chartoftheday.co/p/your-grandkids-aren-t-being-dramatic-about-not-affording-a-house): When you bought, the price-to-income ratio was 3.5x. They're facing 5x — with a 30-year mortgage already sitting at 6.66%.
- [Florida Gained $196 Billion in Taxable Income. New York Lost $111 Billion. Same Decade.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/florida-gained-196-billion-in-taxable-income-new-york-lost-111-billion-same-decade): New York, California, and Illinois were the losers. Florida and Texas were the winners. The 2030 census projection makes this decade look like a warm-up.
- [The Fed Talks 2% Inflation. The Car Lot Has Its Own Number.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/the-fed-talks-2-inflation-the-car-lot-has-its-own-number): When a working family needs a six- or seven-year loan to replace a 12-year-old sedan, they aren't reading PCE reports. They already know what inflation did.
- [The 30-Year Yield Is at a 19-Year High — After Six Fed Rate Cuts](https://chartoftheday.co/p/the-30-year-yield-is-at-a-19-year-high-after-six-fed-rate-cuts): New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first major speech at Jackson Hole today. Bond traders will hang on every word, but today's chart already said it plainly.
- [Canada Runs 4% of America's Trade Deficit. It Just Got a 50% Tariff.](https://chartoftheday.co/p/canada-runs-4-of-america-s-trade-deficit-it-just-got-a-50-tariff): A $46 billion deficit on $880 billion in two-way trade is about as close to balanced as international trade gets. Today's chart puts that in plain sight.
- [How Much of Your Retirement Is Sitting in Dollars That Buy Less Every Year?](https://chartoftheday.co/p/how-much-of-your-retirement-is-sitting-in-dollars-that-buy-less-every-year): From 1980 to 2000, gold fell while governments spent responsibly. Then the spending took off. The chart since then is really a chart of the dollar.
- [The Most Trusted News Source in America Is the Weather Channel](https://chartoftheday.co/p/the-most-trusted-news-source-in-america-is-the-weather-channel): Republican trust collapsed to 8% — single digits — but independents landed at 27%. This stopped being a partisan story years ago.
- [Oil Prices Look Stable. So Why Is Diesel $5.45 a Gallon?](https://chartoftheday.co/p/oil-prices-look-stable-so-why-is-diesel-5-45-a-gallon): Normal is $20. The crack spread — the gap between crude oil and finished diesel — just settled in triple digits for the first time ever.
- [The Farmland Story Everyone Tells Is Missing 99% of the Acres](https://chartoftheday.co/p/the-farmland-story-everyone-tells-is-missing-99-of-the-acres): Most of that growth is coming from foreign-owned renewable energy companies locking up agricultural land for solar and wind projects — not the country dominating the headlines.
- [The $112 Billion Retail Theft Number Has a Problem](https://chartoftheday.co/p/the-112-billion-retail-theft-number-has-a-problem): A third of it is paperwork errors. The NRF retracted its biggest claim. And as a share of sales, the jump is far smaller than the dollars suggest.
- [Foreign Demand for U.S. Treasuries Fell 88% in One Month](https://chartoftheday.co/p/foreign-demand-for-u-s-treasuries-fell-88-in-one-month): More than half gone in 13 years. Look at the chart: the gaps between each data point are getting bigger, not smaller.