Some data on gun violence

My personal view (if it matters) is that the issue of gun violence in the U.S. will not be "resolved" by any simple (or popular) measures.  The issue is just too complicated for that.  But let's not ignore the data on the pervasiveness of gun violence.  Ezra Klein helps us with this (see here).

Great graphic on the S & P 500

The Wall Street Journal has a neat graphic on the S & P 500.

State unemployment rates for November

Calculated Risk (see here) summarizes the data on unemployment rates by state for November.

Pew data on government benefits

The Pew Research Center (see here) report shows we are increasingly a "bipartisan nation of beneficiaries."

The fiscal cliff

If you are trying to get some perspective on the Fiscal Cliff, you could do worse than ponder this graph from the Economist (see here).