Cross posted at the Presimetrics blog. This post has a few simple graphs showing the relationship between the growth in real GDP and a few other variables: the top marginal tax rate, spending by the ...

Everywhere you look, you’ll find problems whose solutions involve connecting data and traversing data relationships, often across different applications or repositories, to answer questions that span ...

Over the past 50 years, both the way the federal government spends money and what the government spends money on has changed a lot. It used to be that most spending was what wonks call "discretionary ...

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the year 2020 has been dominated by data. But with great amounts of data comes great responsibility to communicate it properly. Unfortunately, the accurate and clear ...

If Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling soon, the U.S. government won't be able to pay its debts. Here's who the government owes money to — all the holders of U.S. Treasury debt, broken down by ...