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Real Growth in US Housing Prices (Log Scale) 1890-2015
I am revising a graph from 2010 focusing on national housing prices back to 1890. Data is originally from Robert Shiller's book Irrational Exuberance and is updated on his website. Exponential data...
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Real Growth in US Housing Prices
Last week, I graphed this data on a log scale but here it is on a standard linear scale which emphasises the exponential growth of housing prices before inflation. This behavior, along with bubbles in...
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Land's Share of US Home Prices
Data Notes: I am using a new data set from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for this graph data can be found here: CSW-based price index: aggregate land data, quarterly, 1975:1-2016:1. I took the...
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Land's Share of Home Prices | Long-term Interest Rate
Data Notes: Data is from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy can be found here: CSW-based price index: aggregate land data, quarterly, 1975:1-2016:1. I took the "Aggregate market value of residential...
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Federal Revenue and Top Tax Rates
What caught my attention with this Federal revenue dataset was the reversal of the social insurance taxes and the corporate taxes in their relative importance to the Federal government. So what are...
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Voting in 2016 US Presidential Election
I was inspired to make this visualization with the upcoming Inauguration and by the Market for Labor visualization, I made for my Income book. I took the same approach with this visualization, using...
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Combined Federal Marginal Tax Rates on Family of Four
Often in visualizations of taxes, including mine, the focus is on the highest rate on the highest incomes. The Tax Policy Center calculated the combined federal tax rate on a median income family. To...
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Average Federal Taxes on Family of Four
Another graph with the data from the Tax Policy Center this time the average combined federal tax rate on our proverbial family of four with three different incomes.Data: Historical Combined Income...
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Marginal Combined Federal Taxes on a Family of Four
I am graphing the marginal combined federal taxes on our single earner family of four with three different combinations of tax rates: Income onlyIncome & Payroll (the employee part of social...
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Number of corporations has dropped since the 1980s
Share of business returns filed by C corporations has dropped 16.6% to 4.9% 1980-2012 with sole proprietorships filing the majority of business returns. At the same time, the net income reported by C...
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Federal Tax Revenue as a percent of GDP
My last set of graphs shows the decline of C corporations since the 1980s while the share of pass-through businesses increased. Pass-through businesses do not pay taxes through the corporate tax code...
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Average Combined Federal Taxes on a Family of Four
I am graphing the average combined federal taxes on our single earner family of four with three combinations of tax rates: Income onlyIncome & Payroll (the employee part of social security and...
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Taxing Businesses: Pass-through businesses
Part one of my series: Taxing BusinessesIn my earlier post on the number of returns and net income by business structure, you can see the share of business returns filed by C corporations has dropped...
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Taxing Businesses: C corporations
Part Two of a series about Taxing BusinessesA C corporation is subject to the corporate income tax. While the income from business structures like S corporations, partnerships, LLC's and sole...
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Taxing Businesses: Lowest Marginal Rate
Part 3 of a series about Taxing BusinessesCombining the different scenarios from the previous two posts in the series, I highlighted the lowest marginal rate available to US businesses (one version...
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Taxing Businesses: Decline of Listed Companies on Stock Exchange
Part 4 of a series about Taxing Businesses This is an intriguing graph showing the decline of companies listed in the United States on the stock exchange. (These companies would be corporations whose's...
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Taxing Businesses: Tax Receipts
Part 5 of a series about Taxing BusinessesAlthough profits and therefore corporate tax receipts varied with the business cycle, the corporate tax receipts generally declined from the 1950s to late...
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Taxing Businesses: Net Savings
Part 6 of a series about Taxing BusinessesIn the 1980s the effective top rate on pass-throughs (unearned) was dropped to match the corporate rate on profits, making pass-through businesses more...
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Taxing Businesses: Personal Consumption
Part 7 of a series about Taxing Businesses As corporate savings decreased (as a consequence of increasing the number of pass-through businesses), it was not replaced by personal savings but by personal...
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Taxing Businesses: Domestic Investment
Part 8 of a series about Taxing BusinessesAfter the 1980s tax reform, the decline in savings and the increase in consumption caused domestic investment to fall, swamping any increase due to incentives...
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