Planet Money’s Graphing America series asks the question; What do those people do on the weekends, when they’re not working?
Taking data from the American Time Use Survey (conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics), they answer the question below.
(via NPR’s Planet Money)
As part of NPR’s Graphing America series, Planet Money takes a look at how the poor, middle class and rich spend their money. Not surprisingly, the poor spend more of their money on essentials like groceries and utilities while the rich spend more on education and saving for retirement.
The figures highlighted in the graph above come from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, which includes lots of useful data on spending patterns in the U.S.
(via Planet Money)
The folks over a NPR’s excellent Planet Money podcast recently reported on how easy it was to setup an off-shore company. One of the more fascinating aspects to the podcast is that while most countries require some kind of documentation e.g. a passport, when setting up an offshore company, there is one country that requires no such identification. It makes it the easiest country in the world to register a company anonymously. Can you guess which country that is?
For more on this story, check Adam Davidson’s column on the topic in the NY Times: My Big Fat Belizean, Singaporean Bank Account.
(via Planet Money)
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