David Coe, business copywriter Sydney

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The power of graphicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rQbP63Qec

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$100The most counterfeited denomination in the world

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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$10,000About one year’s pay for the average humanon earth

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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$1 millionNot as big of a pile as you thought, huh?

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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$100 millionFits nicely on a standard sized pallet

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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$1 billionYou will need help robbing a bank

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Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$1 trillionIf you spent $1 milliona day since Jesus was born, you would not have spent $1 trillionby now

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Double-stacked palletsof $100m each

Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$1 trillionHow $1 trillion compares with a jumbo jet, a soccer field and an American football field

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The semi-trailer

Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$15 trillionThe US national debt is about to exceed 100% of America’s gross domestic product

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The semi-trailer

Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

$115 trillionThe unfunded liabilities of the US govt, such as Medicare, social security, and military and civil servant pensions

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The$15tr already owed

Unfunded future liabilities of the US govt

Source: http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us

Bar charts

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Govt support for farmersas % of gross farm receipts 2007-09 averageWhere something

sits in the rankings

Bar charts

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Govt support for farmersas % of gross farm receipts 2007-09 averageWhere something

sits in the rankingsThe relative size of values

Bar charts

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Govt support for farmersas % of gross farm receipts 2007-09 averageWhere something

sits in the rankingsThe relative size of valuesImportant aspectsof the data

One of the lowest levels of govt support in the OECD

Art charts

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How numbers change over time

Art charts

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How numbers change over time

Art charts

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How numbers change over time

Source: Elders

Flow charts

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How entitiesrelate

Line charts

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How seriesrelate

Line charts

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How a current situation compares with history

Line charts

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How a current situation compares with history

Line charts

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How a current situation compares with historyHow a current situation compares with targets

Line + bars

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To compare annual and quarterly data

Tables

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Important trends can be hard to spot

Bar charts

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To highlightcritical numbers

Bar charts

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To highlightcritical numbers