Money chart templates
The money charts that go viral: compounding, markets and the cost of living, built from FRED and other public data or calculated exactly.
Start investing at 20, 30 or 40?
The cost of waiting ten years, shown as three lines that never catch up.
A penny doubled daily vs $1 million
The classic compounding riddle as a 30-day race with a last-second twist.
A $6 coffee every day vs investing it
Spent vs invested at 7%: a simple line race that makes people rethink a daily habit.
Where should $300 a month go?
Four places to put the same monthly deposit, raced over 30 years.
Compound interest: 4% vs 7% vs 10%
One deposit, three growth rates, 40 years: the clearest picture of compound interest there is.
The Big Mac index
What a Big Mac costs in Switzerland, the US, the euro area, Britain, China, India and more since 2000.
Nasdaq vs S&P 500
$10,000 in the tech-heavy Nasdaq vs $10,000 in the S&P 500 over the last decade.
Bitcoin vs gold vs the S&P 500
$1,000 in Bitcoin, gold or the S&P 500: a decade-long race with wild swings.
Gold price history
Gold since 1970, in the dollars of each year and adjusted for inflation.
Oil price history
Seventy-five years of crude oil prices, nominal and adjusted for inflation.
US federal minimum wage
The federal minimum wage since 1938, and what it's worth in today's dollars.
House prices vs income
Why buying a home feels harder: US median home prices against median household income since 1984.
US unemployment since 1948
Every US recession in one line: the unemployment rate since 1948.
What $100 from 1950 is worth
Inflation over time: how much $100 of 1950 shopping costs today, and what $100 from 1950 still buys.