The American Diet, 1961-2015

Some interesting charts on the changes in US food consumption over the last few decades.  From Business Insider:

 

I had previously reported on changes to US fast food.

Image: Kayaks In The Mist

Capitalism = Inequality

 

“This is a truly staggering fact: Wall Street bonuses totaled $27.5 billion last year, which is 3 times more than the combined annual earnings of *all* American workers employed full-time at the federal minimum wage.” — Robert Reich.

That is a sentence that needs to be read over several times, really slowly, to let the meaning sink in.

I have written how I would deal with banks.