The most alarming thing about this chart is that it only accounts for 30 years, and many of us are participating in a company 401(k) plan for longer than that.
He caps his alarming assessment — illustrated with charts and maps and landing like a punch to the solar plexus — with a prescription for personal change.
The Lancet recently published an alarming new report that charts the skyrocketing obesity rates across the globe.
But the national accounts, which principally capture just the domestic operations of American firms, paint a much more alarming picture, says Andrew Smithers, an economist (see chart).For strong companies the resultant behaviour is merely quirky.
Click here to see the full report from the EPI, or click on the chart below to see four alarming trends in the American workforce.
Measured by unit labour costs, peripheral countries lost an alarming amount of competitiveness relative to Germany (see chart 2).When the financial hurricane of 2007-08 hithehe peripheral economies, it flattened public finances that had been flattered by the boom.
Surging gold imports have helped widen the current-account deficit, which was an alarming 5.4% of GDP in the quarter to September (see chart).
The same surveys that chart a decline in his overall approval rating also reveal alarming defections among independents and moderate Republicans.
A graph charting capital-gains changes in California looks roughly like the alarming display of a heart-rate monitor at the hospital.
The proposed alarming strategy is able to achieve a balance between alarming accuracy and alarming sensitivity.
