Where Does the Money Go?

The below infograph from Flowing Data gives us a good idea about what we as US consumers spend our money on.  The data goes back 25 years so you can see the trend in each category of expenditure.

If they had just used data from my spending, you'd see separate line items for brick oven pizza and Ghostface Killah CDs...

from Flowing Data/ BLS

Source:

Flowing Data


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