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Artículo · AccionesRentabilidad media de la bolsa de valores9,4%al año desde 1871, con dividendosDos tipos de promedio, cada año desde 1872 como un ladrillo, las mejores y peores décadas, y cómo se estrecha el rango entre 1 y 30 años de tenencia.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksBest investments by year×23.4Booking Holdings, 2009–2018: the best of today's S&P 500 with a recordPick any year and holding period: the 10 best and 3 worst of today's S&P 500 or of 23 assets, the median and the index, with survivorship bias in plain sight.Leer el artículo → Artículo · EconomíaQué es una recesión34Recesiones de EE. UU. desde 1857Quién decide, cada recesión desde 1857 década a década, cuánto duran las recesiones y las expansiones, y qué pasó con el empleo y la bolsa en torno a cada una desde 1948.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyCOVID-19 and the economy21.9MUS payroll jobs lost, February 2020 – April 2020A 2-month recession and a quick way back: every economy's 2020, the jobs race against every recession since 1945, where $4.52T of relief went, and the inflation that followed.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksDividend aristocrats52S&P 500 companies with 25+ years of dividend raisesWho has raised the dividend for 25, 50, 60+ years by their own count, who cut in 2009 and 2020, and how the S&P 500's dividend held up in crashes since 1871.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyThe history of the world economy×14.8world income per person since 1820Two thousand years in one line, doubling times from centuries to decades, the Great Divergence and who had the largest economy when.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyEconomic miracles×8.6income per person in 25 years: Botswana, 1965–1990Which economies went from poor to rich fastest, picked by one rule instead of by hand: when it happened, how fast income doubled, and the countries that stalled.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksThe Buffett indicator255%of GDP, Q2 2026: the value of US companies' sharesEvery quarter since 1947 on one thermometer, what high readings said about the next 10 years — and the times the indicator was wrong.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksGreat investors: what they really earned19.7%a year for Berkshire since 1965, vs 10.5% for the S&P 500Buffett’s record year by year as a wall of bricks, what $1,000 became, the shrinking edge, the losing years, his bet against hedge funds and what famous funds hold now.Leer el artículo → Article · TechnologyThe AI boom in numbers5.7 monthsdoubling time of AI training compute since 2010Every notable AI model since 1950 as a dot, the models over 10²³ FLOP, who builds them, Big Tech's capital spending and NVIDIA's revenue.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksWho owns the stock market50.9%of family-held stocks belong to the richest 1%America’s stocks as 100 shares in 1989 and now, households against shares, how many families own any stock, and who has held American shares since 1945.Leer el artículo → Artículo · AccionesCaídas bursátiles13caídas del 20 % o más desde 1871Cada caída bursátil del S&P 500 desde 1871: cuán profunda fue, la forma de la caída y cuántos años tardó la vuelta al máximo, con y sin dividendos.Leer el artículo → Article · MarketsBubbles: what they look like in the data19booms and busts since 1881, by one ruleUS stocks, gold, silver, oil, bitcoin and ether: every boom and bust aligned at its peak — how far prices rose, how far they fell and how long the way back took.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksWho profits from bubbles$2.07Tof capital gains cashed in by Americans in 2021Follow the money through the booms of 1999–2000, 2006–07 and 2020–21: who sold to whom, Wall Street's fees, the tax on gains, and who was left holding the shares.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyEconomic paradoxes7famous paradoxes, checked against the dataKeynes's thrift, Solow's computers, Jevons's fuel, Simpson's paychecks, the equity premium, Gibson's rates and Greenspan's conundrum — each with a picture of its own.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksThe biggest IPOs ever$75.0BSpaceX, the biggest IPO on record (Jun 2026)The largest IPOs from the companies’ own filings, who held the record and for how long, and the IPO waves: 1,000 US IPOs in 2021, 596 of them SPACs.Leer el artículo → Artículo · Tasas y deudaHistorial de la tasa de interés de la Fed3,88%la tasa de fondos federales, 11 de nov de 2026Todos los movimientos desde 2008 como ladrillos de un cuarto de punto, 30 ciclos de subidas y reducciones desde 1954, las mayores subidas y la tasa después de inflación mes a mes.Leer el artículo → Article · Rates and debtHow central banks work36 of 38central banks raised rates in 2021–2023What a key rate is, how a hike travels from T-bills to mortgages, jobs and prices, the world's rates now, the negative-rate club and what central banks aim for.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyStrange things that happen in crises−$36.98a barrel of US oil, April 20, 2020Oil below zero, 6.14M jobless claims in one week, 31.8% of income saved: the oddest moments of crises, each measured against normal times.Leer el artículo → Article · Rates and debtInverted yield curve+0.78points: the 10-year minus the 3-month yieldToday's curve against one and two years ago, every inversion since 1954, how long until the recession that followed — and the times none did.Leer el artículo → Artículo · DineroCalculadora de interés compuesto$848Kde $1.000 invertidos en acciones de EE. UU. en 1960Una calculadora con aportes mensuales, la regla del 72 en imagen y en qué se convirtieron realmente $1.000 en acciones, bonos, oro y efectivo desde 1960.Leer el artículo → Article · PricesWhat got more expensive, and what got cheaper+207%college tuition since 2000Tuition, child care, rent, TVs and phones since 2000: a fan of 19 prices, price tags, hours of work, and tuition racing stocks, gold and homes.Leer el artículo → Artículo · PreciosEl valor de un dólar$34,26hoy por $1 de 1913Un billete de un dólar de cada década, dibujado al tamaño de su poder adquisitivo actual; la inflación de cada año desde 1872; las rachas más largas de subida y bajada de precios.Leer el artículo → Article · PricesWhat actually beats inflation+7.1%a year after inflation: US stocks since 1871Stocks, gold, bonds, cash, homes and bitcoin in hot and cool years, through 1941–48, 1966–82 and 2021–22, and how long each took to win its buying power back.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyHyperinflation: when prices run away231,150,889%a year: Zimbabwe in 2008, the record since 1960Every country where prices tripled in a year since 1960 as a heat map, the worst years on record, how fast prices double at each rate, and the countries that brought inflation down.Leer el artículo → Article · PricesCost of living$2.32a dozen eggs, Oct 202618 everyday prices since 1980 in dollars and in minutes of work, the price of eggs month by month, gasoline and pay.Leer el artículo → Article · MoneyMoney printing: what happens when countries print money$10.3Bof new US money a day in 2020Money growth against inflation in 151 countries, central bank balloons after 2008 and 2020, a printing-press counter, and how US prices followed the money of 2020.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksStock market curiosities60%the Super Bowl indicator's hit rate since 1978Football games, Januarys, the last digit of the year and a crystal ball made by data mining: market folklore on trial against a coin flip.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyUnsolved economic mysteries6unsolved cases, with the evidence and the suspectsThe vanishing Phillips curve, the Great Moderation, a 39-year slide of interest rates, money that didn't cause inflation, labor's shrinking share and poor countries' late catch-up.Leer el artículo → Article · MoneyIrrational money−81%missing the 10 best months since 1871Six money habits run as plain rules on real data — the best months, panic selling, winner chasing, Sell in May, money illusion and lottery odds — with one surprise.Leer el artículo → Article · MoneyMarketing miracles×103Monster's net sales since 2001Monster, the iPhone, Jordan, Costco, Starbucks Rewards, Prime, Red Bull and Coca-Cola: what marketing built, by the companies' own filings.Leer el artículo → Artículo · Empleo e ingresosTasa de desempleo de EE. UU.4,1%en octubre 2026Cada mes desde 1948 en un calendario de calor, la subida rápida y la bajada lenta en cada recesión, U-3 frente a U-6, y quién sufre más.Leer el artículo → Article · BusinessAdvertising: wins, flops and big spenders$232Bon advertising, 211 S&P 500 companies, latest yearThe biggest advertisers in the S&P 500, spend per dollar of sales by sector, and nine famous wins and flops with figures from the companies' own filings.Leer el artículo → Article · Jobs and incomeLabor productivity×5.5output per hour since 1947The hour of 1947 now takes 11 minutes. Five eras of growth, what drove each — machines, skills or ideas — who produces the most per hour, and how pay kept up.Leer el artículo → Article · StocksElon Musk in numbers$94.8BTesla's revenue in 2025Tesla's growth, a 12-rung pay ladder and the court case that followed, his stake from 19 proxy tables, the Twitter deal's financing and SpaceX's first public numbers — all from the filings.Leer el artículo → Artículo · Tasas y deudaDeuda nacional de EE. UU.$40,58 Bla deuda nacional, 10 de nov de 2026Cuánto tardó cada billón — 192 años el primero, 154 días el último —, la deuda por persona desde 1790, quién la posee y el lugar de EE. UU. entre 191 países.Leer el artículo → Artículo · Empleo e ingresosSalario mínimo$7,25por hora, el mínimo federal desde 2009Cada aumento desde 1938 frente a su valor en dólares de hoy, los estados que pagan más en un mapa y lo que paga un año a tiempo completo con el salario mínimo.Leer el artículo → Article · Jobs and incomeMedian household income$87,460a year, the median US household in 2025Median against average, the income ladder since 1967 — what puts a household in the top 20% or the top 5% — every state on a map and income by age.Leer el artículo → Article · HousingMortgage rates history6.2%average mortgage rate, Dec 2025Every year since 1963 as a brick, decade by decade, the payment on the same loan, the rate after inflation and against the 10-year Treasury.Leer el artículo → Article · HousingIs real estate a good investment?0.6%a year after inflation, US home prices since 1890A century of flat prices, then the climb; the land under the house; farmland's busts; $10,000 in a house vs stocks, bonds and gold; and prices against rents.Leer el artículo → Artículo · ViviendaPrecios de la vivienda y accesibilidad en EE. UU.$393.300vivienda nueva mediana, T3 20264,8 años de ingresos en 2025, frente a 3,2 en 1967. Cada año como una pila de ladrillos, precio y tasa en un mismo mapa, y luego frente a ahora por décadas.Leer el artículo → Article · MoneyGold, jewelry and art: do treasures hold their value?+4.5%a year after inflation: gold, 1971–2025Two centuries of one ounce of gold, jewelry's price tag against the metal, paintings sold twice at auction, and what no open index can measure.Leer el artículo → Article · MoneyThe gold standard22.2 mthe edge of a cube of all gold ever minedWhy the dollar left gold in 1971, how prices behaved on and off it, and how much gold there is: about 210,800 tonnes, drawn next to the Statue of Liberty.Leer el artículo → Article · MoneyHow many bitcoins exist95.8%of all 21 million bitcoins already exist20,111,176 bitcoins now, 888,694 still to come until about 2140: 21 million as 210 bricks, the halving staircase, coins a day era by era and supply growth against the dollar's M2.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyLargest economies in the world$128Tworld GDP in 2026, IMF projectionCountries by GDP as one picture, every economy's share since 1960, the US against China, dollars against purchasing power, and who is growing fastest.Leer el artículo → Article · EconomyDemocracy and economic growth2.2% / 2.0%median growth a year per person: democracies / non-democracies, 1950–2020Do political systems change how fast economies grow? Averages, the fastest and the worst decades, changes of regime, the income link and what research finds.Leer el artículo →