Overview of my crowdsource fundraising using Kickstarter

May 10, 2011

A quick recap of my experiences fundraising via Kickstarter for my Illustrated Guide to Income in the United States. (If you missed the deadline to back the project and you like to be notified when it is done then please subscribe to this blog by RSS or by Email.) Overall it was a very successful: over 60 days [...]

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11 hours left until my Kickstarter project ends!

April 30, 2011

For those of you who have already pledged at Kickstarter thanks to you I am just under $14,000 well beyond my original goal!! If you have been meaning to sign up and support my project you still have a few hours left. The project ends 3:00am EST (12pm PST) today. You can pledge as little as $5 and [...]

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Taxable Income and Taxes Paid: 1950-2006

April 29, 2011

A large part of personal income is not considered “taxable” income by the IRS. In the graph personal income (as calculated by the Bureau of Economic Analysis) is around 80% of GDP. This includes all employee compensation + after tax business income + rent + interest + other income but no capital gains. However, the taxable income is around 30-40% [...]

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Mapping the US Housing Bubble: 2000-2010

April 27, 2011

Unlike prices in the stock market (which are the same no matter where you you live) your experience of the housing bubble was determined by your location in the years  2000-2010. These maps (which I created with Matthew Mulbrandon) give a quick and easy glance at the change in housing prices focusing on the bubble [...]

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