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Article · ActionsRendement moyen de la Bourse9,4%par an depuis 1871, dividendes inclusDeux types de moyenne, chaque année depuis 1872 sous forme de brique, les meilleures et les pires décennies, et la façon dont l'éventail des résultats se resserre sur 1 à 30 ans de détention.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · ÉconomieQu'est-ce qu'une récession34Récessions américaines depuis 1857Qui décide, chaque récession depuis 1857 décennie par décennie, la durée des récessions et des expansions, et ce qui s'est passé pour l'emploi et la Bourse autour de chacune depuis 1948.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · ActionsKrachs boursiers13chutes de 20 % ou plus depuis 1871Chaque krach du S&P 500 depuis 1871 : sa profondeur, la forme de la chute, et le nombre d'années qu'il a fallu pour revenir au record, avec et sans dividendes.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · Taux et detteHistorique des taux d'intérêt de la Fed3,88%le taux des fonds fédéraux, 11 nov. 2026Chaque variation depuis 2008 en briques d'un quart de point, 30 cycles de hausse et de baisse depuis 1954, les plus fortes hausses et le taux après inflation mois par mois.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · ArgentCalculateur d'intérêts composés$848 kà partir de $1 000 placés en actions américaines en 1960Un calculateur avec versements mensuels, la règle de 72 en image, et ce que $1 000 placés en actions, obligations, or et liquidités sont réellement devenus depuis 1960.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · PrixLa valeur d'un dollar$34,26aujourd'hui pour $1 de 1913Un billet d'un dollar pour chaque décennie, dessiné à la taille de son pouvoir d'achat actuel ; l'inflation de chaque année depuis 1872 ; les plus longues séries de hausse et de baisse des prix.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · Emploi et revenusTaux de chômage américain4,1%en octobre 2026Chaque mois depuis 1948 en calendrier thermique, la hausse rapide et la baisse lente à chaque récession, U-3 face à U-6, et qui est le plus touché.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · Taux et detteDette nationale américaine$40,58 Bnla dette nationale, 10 nov. 2026Combien de temps a pris chaque billion — 192 ans pour le premier, 154 jours pour le dernier —, la dette par habitant depuis 1790, qui la détient et la place des États-Unis parmi 191 pays.Lire l'article → Article · Emploi et revenusSalaire minimum$7,25de l'heure, le minimum fédéral depuis 2009Chaque hausse depuis 1938 comparée à sa valeur en dollars d'aujourd'hui, les États qui paient plus sur une carte, et ce que rapporte une année à temps plein au salaire minimum.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → Article · LogementPrix de l'immobilier et accessibilité aux États-Unis$393 300maison neuve médiane, T3 20264,8 années de revenu en 2025, contre 3,2 en 1967. Chaque année sous forme de pile de briques, prix et taux sur une même carte, puis hier et aujourd'hui par décennie.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article → 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.Lire l'article →