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Client work: wtf is a Reverse Mortgage?

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Jess.

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Ok, that’s not the title of the infographic, but it’s appropriate. Reverse Mortgages are a financial product available to seniors and they are set to explode as the baby boomers head off into retirement and are finding out that they don’t have enough cash to pay for their expenses.
Reverse Mortgages used to have a bad [...]

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Client work: United States vs Russia

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Jess.

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Here is one in a series I am doing for Mint.com. It is a comparison of the United States and Russia over 100 factors. I have used the same format in comparing China, Canada and Mexico, and India. Pretty popular stuff, with over 4500 Diggs between them.
The first thing most people notice is that are [...]

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Open call for advising, Death and Taxes 2010

Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Jess.

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So the Obama’s administration released their full budget numbers last friday through the OMB. This information which is thousands of pages long contains all the spending estimated for the federal goverment for 2010. Usually this data is released the first Monday in February, but due to a new administration and recent economic activity, it has [...]

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Discussion: Biflation, What is it? Does it Exist?

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Jess.

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So I have this issue for a infographic I am working on and decided to throw the question out there to see if I can get any answers.
I have emailed several econ professors with the following email, but perhaps the net at large will have better insights.
I am a graphic designer who specializes in infographics. [...]

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Bush’s new Alternative Energy is powered by smoke and mirrors.

Posted on 13. Jun, 2008 by Jess.

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Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since 2001, we have spent nearly $10 billion to develop cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable alternative energy [...]