Off the Shelf: Prosperity, Real or Imagined

In “Inflated,” a new book, R. Christopher Whalen looks at history to try to understand the long-term viability of the American economy after the financial crisis.

Off the Shelf: Prosperity, Real or Imagined

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If America's ice-cream was the Statue of Liberty, we would have a monument to prosperity!

Many, dataviz was a lot more delicious in the olden times: "THE annual consumption of ice cream, America's favorite dish, is now 180,000,000 gallons, says the Department of Agriculture. We have pictured this amount at the right; the can that would hold it would tower above Liberty's head. It would be indeed a national monument to prosperity, of which ice cream consumption is an index."

If America's ice-cream was the Statue of Liberty, we would have a monument to prosperity!

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