It is the time of year again to present the most subjective list of them all, the Best of 2014. These are the twenty charts I have chosen, from the ‘short’ list of 133, which can be found here. If that does not fill your appetite, you can always check out the previous editions as well: 2013, 2012 and 2011. (and yes, 2010 is still missing…)
Here goes.
Number 20: the pain in Spa… Greece
https://markcliffe.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/trade.pdf
Number 19: We should have known: the euro reached puberty…
https://twitter.com/fmirw/status/428651548508291074
Number 18: Oil producing countries put into perspective
Number 17: Speeding things up…
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/03/daily-chart-7
Number 16: How to lie with statistics
http://www.businessinsider.com/spurious-correlations-by-tyler-vigen-2014-5
Number 15: The incredible rise of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund
http://qz.com/252753/norways-gargantuan-sovereign-wealth-fund-by-the-numbers/
Number 14: The positive impact of the oil price decline
http://www.businessinsider.com/societe-generale-oil-price-drop-effects-2014-11
Number 13: At the butcher, ten years from now. Order your printed meat!
Number 12: Some perspective on emissions
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/22/6805513/un-climate-talks-in-seven-charts
Number 11: the world is going down the drain (and some more brilliant street-art)
http://brekend.nl/2014/05/21/15-x-street-art-die-met-de-omgeving-speelt/
Number 10: Population density in China.
https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps
Number 9: So much for that lost decade…
Number 8: What it takes to be a good investor
http://www.businessinsider.com/mindblowing-facts-warren-buffett-2014-8
Number 7: No comment…
http://priceonomics.com/why-you-should-never-read-the-comments/
Number 6: The rise and (ongoing) fall of Newspaper ads..
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/no_good_news_for_newspapers_in.php
Number 5: The shape of terrorism…
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/07/each-dot-on-this-map-represents-an-act-of-terrorism-since-1970/
Number 4: Economic costs of various events (although I think civil war is somewhat more costly at times)…
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/09/economics-disasters
Number 3: Independence from the UK: the Scots said no.
Number 2: The incredible cement consumption by China…
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Making-the-Modern-World
AND THE WINNER IS:….How big the stock markets of Emerging Markets really are.
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21594476-scarce
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