The numbers behind the news.

UK

How has the UK done since Brexit?

Still arguing about Brexit with a decade of official numbers sitting right there? Trade, growth, pay, the pound and what the rest of the world did next - before and after that infamous evening.

Pay

What jobs pay the most?

Choosing a career, changing one, or wondering how your pay compares? Every occupation the Census Bureau can measure, ranked by what the middle person earns - with the national median marked so you can find your own job on the ladder.

Money

How much money is there in the world?

Ever wondered what all the money adds up to - and how much of it is actual cash? There's an official answer, and most of it has never been printed. The world total, your share of it, and how fast it grows, all charted.

Canada

How is Canada doing, compared to the US?

Watched the US-Canada split play out in the headlines and wondered what it's doing in practice? Here are the two economies side by side - growth, jobs, the loonie, and the goods still crossing the border - measured the same way, updated as the counts arrive.

Commodities

What's happening to commodity prices right now?

Wondering why the wiring, the coffee and the gas bill all seem to move at once? The world prices behind them are on one board here, ranked by how far each moved this year - with the supply squeezes behind the big movers, each from a named source.

Pay

What is the minimum wage where you live?

Earning near it, hiring at it, or wondering how anyone lives on it? The famous federal number is frozen and fading - the real floor is your state's, and the gap between the two has never been wider. Every state ranked.

California fuel

Why is gas so expensive in California?

Filling up in California and wondering why every state line crossing feels like a discount? Here's the state's price against the country's, every week, and the three named causes behind the gap: taxes, the blend, and geography.

Food & climate

What is the climate doing to food prices?

Noticed the chocolate and the coffee outrunning the rest of your shop? The world prices behind both have broken away from the pack - and named attribution science says why. Most of the basket has done nothing of the kind.

Recession watch

Are we in a recession right now?

Half the headlines say downturn, half say all-clear - and your plans deserve better than a coin flip. Here's the signal with the best real-time record, drawn over every official recession since 1960, and where it stands this week.

Rent

Why is rent so high?

Squeezed by the rent, or bracing for the renewal letter? Here's what the median renter pays, how fast rents are climbing against the long record, and the one number - empty rentals - that decides where they go next.

Mortgages

When will mortgage rates come down?

Waiting for rates to fall before you buy or refinance? Here's this week's average against every week since 1971, the two dials that move it, and what today's rate does to a monthly payment on a typical home.

AI

Is AI taking jobs - or making them?

Is AI coming for your job, or changing what it asks of you? Real usage data says the shift is deep but narrow so far - concentrated in desk work - and live listings show which way employers are moving. Read this if work feels unsteady.

Skills

Which skills will your kids need?

Choosing what to study, or helping someone who is? Live listings put Python first - and the runner-up isn't technical at all. What that pair means for picking a course.

Groceries

Why are groceries getting so expensive?

If your food bill keeps creeping up, this page names the culprits: every staple ranked by how much dearer it got in a year, with the reasons behind the big movers.

Debt

How big is the national debt, really?

You've heard the trillions and wondered how worried to be. The measure that means something is the debt against the whole economy - and here's where it stands against the wartime record, plus your share of it.

Trade

Why does America buy more than it sells?

The trade deficit is back in every speech - but is buying more than you sell ruinous, or just how America shops? Every month of it since 1992, and what a deficit does and doesn't mean for you.

Currency

Is the dollar losing value?

Half the headlines say the dollar is sliding. Here's the measured version - its value against the currencies America trades with, week by week - and what a weaker or stronger dollar changes about your life.

Rates

Does the yield curve really predict recessions?

The recession signal everyone cites: does it deserve its reputation? Fifty years of the curve, every inversion marked against what followed, so you can judge its record yourself.

Bitcoin

Is bitcoin expensive right now?

Whether you hold it or stayed out, you've wondered if the price is too high. Twelve years of it, against the one model that has tracked it since the beginning - and what the gap says right now.

Inflation

What is your first salary worth in today's money?

Was everything really cheaper back then? Type in any year and settle it: what your first salary is worth today, and what a dollar bought the year you remember.

Fuel

Why is diesel so much dearer than petrol?

The two pump prices used to travel together; now diesel sits well above gas. Why the gap opened, week by week - and what it quietly adds to the price of everything delivered.

Electricity

Which states pay the most for electricity?

Your electricity bill depends on your state more than your thermostat. All fifty ranked and mapped, the national average marked - see which side yours sits on, and why the gap is threefold.

Fuel

What does a gallon of gas cost right now?

You've watched the sign on the corner change again and wondered who decides. Here's what's inside a gallon's price, and what a fill-up costs now against any year you remember.