Axes of EvilWhen charts become performance art© REUTERSPwC: blockchain potentially has LOADS of potentialSo let us all “seize the opportunity to explore blockchain solutions”! When the SPAC met the blockchain Exponential love. Getting to grips with 2020, one chart crime at a timeJPMorgan, u OK hun? The trinity of financial innovation: debt, equity and ICOsWhere to begin eh?CNBC’s ‘v-shaped’ recoveryAll is well in the US economy, apparently.When axes get truly evilThe state of Georgia publishes a chart showing dates conveniently ordered to show a decline in Covid cases. More from this SeriesWhen data viz goes psychoticIs now really the time for whirlwind charts? Well why not. Ain’t no virus gonna stop the crypto graph-tersWhen a chart can speak 1000 words. Not all of them entirely sincere. We need to figure out how we will reopen the economy. But not like this.A new paper from academics at MIT attempts to rank amenities based on their importance versus their transmission risk, but it doesn’t quite succeed. A diseased pie disasterHow contagious is coronavirus? 4.12 per cent, apparently. Goldman’s missing Y axisAnother week, another IB investor deck that doesn’t add up.Technical analysis, blockchain litigation edition“Following the 2018 enforcement wave, blockchain litigation returned to its previous upward trajectory in 2019.”Unpicking the UBS lockGrey, on grey, on grey.ARK Invest’s enthusiastic EV predictions don’t add upUnless you ignore the data.This “Event Risk Radar” is a bad ideaNomura’s attempt at sexing up risk goes awry. Political commentators and market wizardsElection silly season comes to cable.Tesla is worth <checks notes> $10, $250 or $500¯\_(ツ)_/¯A fall in house prices would not devastate Germany’s economyGermany is nowhere near as exposed as Spain was to a crash in house prices. When technical analysis goes rogue“Inflation charts look as if they’re about to explode.” How not to understand money From a website with the tagline: “understanding money”.359% pie = 100% triggerWho is behind some of the dodgiest pie charts we have seen in a long while?Bitcoin: beyond da moonOne chart crime to rule them all.High treason against pie chartsLock it up.The bitcoin price can finally be understoodVia the magic of multiple interlocking positive feedback loops, of course.Et tu, Lib Dems? [Update]Surprise: party who advocated austerity in chart shocker.Presented without comment“Attempts to discredit Holmes for not being a doctor, and for not having completed her studies at Stanford, are the stuff of very small minds.”The quality of chart needed to raise $2m in an ICOAnd then to shut up shop, with all the money gone. The fall and rise of nationsReserve currency holdings as chart crime.Some help pleaseWhy chartcrime has destroyed the blockchain “Forecasts are inherently limited and cannot be relied upon.”Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The TimesChart crime as a measure of crypto-desperationCreative destruction concernsWage brainEt tu, Beto?Charts and misdemeanoursDeutsche Bank and the thin blue lineThe crypto periodic table (sigh)Wot is colourUS debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)Wot is gravityPie in the sky
