…(nominal/chained) I used data from Professor Saez for the share of income. It’s a big file. This table is of the share of income to the top 1%. This brings…

…in this sample (notably Spain gained a whopping 4.1%!). (Also, please see Chart 18 of this ECB research paper for a broader comparison – it’s a .pdf file). Exhibit 2:…

…nice chart I saved from 2005 looking at the tax cuts and what they meant for the various income groups. First, let me say that when I initially viewed this…

…location and family size: Chart Source: How the American Rescue Plan Act will boost marketplace premium subsidies | healthinsurance.org, Louise Norris Improvements; Income: At incomes up to 150% of the Federal…

…so the total tax burden is much less progressive than this chart implies. If this shift in income to the top quintile had generated the increase in savings and investment…

Simple national income and product accounting tells us that the current US recover (I can barely manage to type that without scare quotes and I *hate* scare quotes) has been…

…in recent years, as indicated by flat labor income shares (Figure 1.4, panel 6). Consider the following chart from the Atlanta Fed: For the longest time, I’ve been staring at…

…The chart illustrates the federal deposits of income and employment taxes that are recorded on a daily basis and presented here as the annual pace of the 30-day rolling sum….

…the rustbelt goes beyond a geographic area. Saving the rustbelt is referring to a demographic group. Update: Link American Dream Update: fixed the chart link paragraph missing before the chart….

…one comparing male and female incomes. The part that gets attention is the report that female income for a full time, year round job is now 78% of what a…