Looking at Renters Insurance Across All 50 States
The decision to rent or buy your home is one of the biggest in your financial life. But what about the decision to insure it? Renters insurance is often overlooked relative to homeowners insurance, but...
View ArticleVisualizing 20 American Cities with Economies as Big as Countries
The U.S. accounts for one-fourth of the entire world economy, or about $21.44T in nominal GDP. It can be hard to comprehend just how big that is, so we created a new map comparing the GDP of individual...
View ArticleHere’s How Much It Costs to Set Up an LLC in Each State
It’s really easy to form a company these days. There are lots of services available that will handle all the paperwork, like opening bank accounts, getting a mailing address and filing articles of...
View Article5 Visualizations We Wish We Had Published in February 2020
These 5 data visuals of February 2020 are the pieces we wish we had done because of their awesomeness! Each month we select five amazing data displays to showcase to our audience. This month, we picked...
View ArticleVisualizing the 50 Most Innovative Fintech Startups
When was the last time you walked into a bank? And when was the last time you checked a banking app on your phone? Researchers at Wharton found that while people walk into a bank branch once or twice a...
View ArticleVisualizing America's Rising Credit Card Debt Nationwide
Credit card payments have become a way of life for many Americans. Nearly 60% of families claim to use them for the convenience, and market innovations like Apple Pay have made it even easier to...
View ArticleHere’s the Wealthiest Person in Every State
The U.S. is home to 5 of the top 10 cities with the most billionaires in the world, according to a recent analysis of the Forbes list of billionaires. Ever wonder who the richest person is where you...
View ArticleIncome Inequality Around the World: How Much do You Need to Earn to Join the...
You’re not wrong to be curious about income inequality. Politicians on both sides talk about it all the time, and the media is obsessed with stories about the top 1%. Our map takes a unique look at...
View ArticleVisualizing Bitcoin's Wild Ride in the Last Decade
In February 2011, Silk Road became the first online store to accept Bitcoin as payment. The new digital currency cost about one U.S. dollar per coin. The next decade would be a roller coaster for the...
View ArticleCharted: America’s Record-High Consumer Debt Levels
The United States of America could be called the United States of Debt: recent data shows that Americans on average owe a total of over $51,000. Compare this to a gross domestic product per capita of...
View ArticleVisualizing The Coronavirus Stock Market Meltdown
Coronavirus panic is sweeping the world, forcing governments to take unprecedented steps to slow the pandemic. Schools are closed, bars are shutting down and public events are called off. The world is...
View ArticleVisualizing Coronavirus Disease by the Numbers
The coronavirus is fundamentally changing the world before our eyes. Our goal at HowMuch.net has always been to help people understand the economy. We do that by creating beautiful data visualizations...
View ArticleCOVID Cases Explode Globally 13-Fold As They Slow In China
What started as an isolated disease in Wuhan, China has now grown into a global problem. The World Health Organization declared it a Pandemic. Italy is experiencing what we fear most - a run on...
View ArticleCharted: The Impact of COVID-19 on the World's Major Stock Indexes
The coronavirus is officially in all 50 states. Almost 2,000 people in New York City are now confirmed to have the virus. The entire San Francisco Bay Area is sheltering in place. Schools and...
View ArticleVisualizing How Much Home $500K Buys You in Every State
Half a million dollars can get you over 3,000 square feet of home real estate in the United States, based on the national median price per square feet. That sounds like a big number, but when you...
View ArticleVisualizing the Most Highly Imported & Exported Goods in the U.S.
The coronavirus outbreak has caused many Americans to consider the fragility of modern supply chains, particularly when it comes to foreign imports. As the world’s largest economy, the United States is...
View ArticleVisualizing the Cost of Food for Two Weeks of Quarantine
Many Americans have encountered an unfamiliar sight lately at the grocery: empty shelves. The coronavirus has unleashed panic buying across the country, despite retailers’ insistence that food supply...
View ArticleMapped: How the $150B Coronavirus Relief Fund Gets Divided
As the Coronavirus pandemic spread to the United States, government leaders at local to national levels realized the problem on their hands. The U.S. hospital system wasn’t set up to handle the...
View ArticleWhat’s Inside the $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package
President Trump just signed into law a massive coronavirus relief package, pumping $2 trillion of stimulus into the economy to prevent a catastrophe. It’s hard to imagine just how much money is at...
View Article5 Visualizations We Wish We Had Published in March 2020
Time for the 5 data visual we wish we had done for the month of March. This is a monthly article we publish to express our love for data visualizations outside our niche. This month has one theme in...
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