Athletics vs. Academics

I would just like to point out that I love sports, but I showed this disparity in order to show where money is being allocated in college.  Also only a quarter of the national powerhouses actually make a profit on average, this can be due to sports excluding football and basketball losing money such as tennis and women's everything.

SAT Scores and Family Income

First, here are the individual test sections:

Source: College Board

Source: College Board

Source: College Board

Here are all three test sections next to each other (zoomed in on the vertical axis, so you can see the variation among income groups a little more clearly):

Source: College Board

 

Source: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/

 

QE2 and the Arab Spring

How the Fed triggered the Arab Spring uprisings in two easy graphs

It is possible to join the dots between the Fed’s second phase of quantitative easing and the revolutions in the Middle East.

Source- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8492078/How-the-Fed-triggered-the-Arab-Spring-uprisings-in-two-easy-graphs.html