Charts of the Week
A Long-Term Look At Interest Rates
July 6, 2017
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While many are likely aware of the approximate market value of their home, have you ever wondered how big a bite inflation takes out of any potential capital gains when selling? The chart below shows both nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) house prices since 1890. While prices rose 5155% on a nominal basis over this period,… Continue reading Long-Term Home Prices
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Data for the following chart comes from the book Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. The authors update data from the book here. The latest update covers the 114th Congress (2015 – 2017). The authors measured the voting patterns in Congress from 1879 through the last… Continue reading President’s Approval Over Time
Bloomberg – U.S. Global’s New Gold ETF Brings a Quant’s Approach to the Metal Investors have pulled record amounts from gold funds this year The ETF enters the field at an awkward time. Gold is down roughly 10 percent from its July 2016 peak. And even after miners posted their best profit margins in four… Continue reading Gold Looks Vulnerable as New ETF Comes to Market