In January 2023, there were only two components of the S&P 500 (Index: SPX) whose market capitalization exceeded one trillion dollars.
As of the close of trading on Friday, 2 June 2023, there are now four. The membership of the S&P 500's trillion dollar market cap club has doubled!
Together, those four companies account for 20.4% of the entire index' market capitalization of $37.27 trillion. The next six largest components of the index account for another 10.1% of that market cap. The following chart shows Top 10 firms' market cap as a share of the whole S&P 500:
The other 495 firms in the S&P 500 have a collective market capitalization of $25.88 trillion, or 69.4% of the index' total valuation.
Here is the list of the top 10 components of the S&P 500 index as of 2 June 2023:
- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)
- Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)
- Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA)
- Alphabet (A) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)
- Alphabet (C) (NASDAQ: GOOG)
- Meta Platforms (A) (NASDAQ: META)
- Berkshire Hathaway (B) (NYSE: BRK.B)
- Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)
- UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH)
The Top 10 firms of the S&P 500 have increased their overall share of the index' total market capitalization, rising from 29.5% in our snapshot a little over 13 months ago to 30.6% on 2 June 2023.
Since that snapshot, the rankings of several firms within the Top 10 have changed. The most notable changes are Nvidia's recent surge to join the trillion-dollar valuation club, while Tesla's market cap has dropped from fourth to ninth place. Although it didn't change its ranking, Amazon has seen its market cap rise above the $1 trillion threshold. Meanwhile, Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook) has risen while Berkshire Hathaway has dipped.
But maybe the bigger story is that the 495 firms at the bottom of the market cap ratings within the S&P 500 have seen their collective market cap's decline, falling from $28.15 trillion in April 2022 to $25.88 trillion in June 2023. The growth of the index over the past 13 months has been highly concentrated within its largest market-cap weighted members.
That might explain MarketWatch's Brett Arends' latest opinion piece, in which he calls the concentration of the index' valuation "ridiculous":
The S&P 500 has become ridiculous. It has become so top-heavy that it is effectively just a bet on a handful of stocks. If you want to bet your retirement on the fortunes of a small number of companies, that’s your choice. But you should at least know you’re doing it. I suspect most people have no idea.
Apple alone now accounts for nearly 8% of the S&P 500 by market value. That is more than the bottom 200 companies in the index.
Put another way, if you invest in a typical U.S. (large cap) mutual fund, you are betting more of your money on Apple alone than you are on such household names as Walgreens Boots Alliance Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Ruth’s Chris, LongHorn Steakhouse), Royal Caribbean Cruises and Carnival cruise operators, kitchen table staples Kellogg Campbell Soup and JM Smucker casino giants MGM International Las Vegas Sands Caesar’s Entertainment and Wynn Resorts booze companies Molson Coors and Brown-Forman (Jack Daniel’s) toys giant Hasbro (G.I. Joe, Monopoly, Peppa the Pig) airlines United American and Southwest plus around180 other U.S. companies…put together.
Apple may be a wonderful company. But for $2.8 trillion, if I had to choose, would I rather own one company or these 200?
That's a good question. If you value diversification, what should you do? In his article, Arends suggests an equally-weighted index of S&P 500 component stocks might be more desirable.
That's good timing, because a little over a week earlier, Cullen Roche weighed the two types of indexing and compared how they have performed with respect to each other over the time that equal-weighted funds have existed as an available investing option.
We now have 20 years of real-time market data from live market cap and equal weight ETFs (SPY vs RSP). The performance is interesting because the equal weight index has outperformed by almost 1% per year. But it’s also come with added risk along the way where the standard deviation has been 2% higher and the maximum drawdown was 5% deeper. On the whole they’ve looked very similar though, but to earn that slight premium you needed a little stronger stomach.
Roche continues with an informative discussion of the nature of how the risks of investing in an equal-weighted index differs from a market cap-weighted index. But for our purposes, he does get to the bottom line:
The bottom line is, in the long-run these are very similar indices on a risk adjusted basis and there’s nothing wrong with owning the equal weight index as long as you know you’re using a factor tilt that takes a little more risk. At the same time, it’s useful to understand that while this is true in the long-run it’s not always true in the short-term. And now is one of those times where the market cap weighted S&P 500 is generating that 8.5% return by taking a much more concentrated risk relative to other broad markets.
Does the long or the short investment horizon matter more to you today?
References
Standard and Poor. S&P 500 Index Earnings and Estimates. [Excel Spreadsheet]. Accessed 2 June 2023.
Standard and Poor. S&P Market Attributes. [Excel Spreadsheet]. Accessed 2 June 2023.
Slickcharts. S&P 500 Companies by Weight. [Online Database]. Accessed 2 June 2023.
Ycharts. S&P 500 Market Cap. [Online Database]. Accessed 2 June 2023.
Labels: ideas, index, investing, market cap, personal finance, SP 500
We've had a very fast moving month as the coronavirus pandemic has dominated much of our regular activity as we've nearly doubled our analytical output. In case you've missed any of it, here's a recap of several of our more unique contributions:
Tools
- What Is Your Risk Of Exposure to Coronavirus In A Public Outing?
This is easily the most popular tool we've developed related to the coronavirus outbreak, where if you know how many people live in your town and how many have been confirmed carriers of the virus, you can estimate how at risk you are of coming into contact with someone who is infected if you go out to a public venue.
- How Fast Could China's Coronavirus Spread?
Using the Diamond Princess cruise ship as a model, we built a tool that can project how long it would have taken all passengers and crew to become infected if they been kept on board in that ideal environment for spreading the coronavirus.
- Estimating Economic Impacts From a Disaster Shock
How big a bite has China's coronavirus epidemic taken out of its national economy? We develop back-of-the-envelope math into a tool you can use to answer that question and apply to any nation's economy.
- Atmospheric CO2 and the Coronavirus
Now that the coronavirus epidemic that originated in China has become a pandemic, we have a unique alternative economic indicator that might tell us how much the global economy has been affected by the coronavirus.
- What If There Was a Vaccine for African Swine Fever?
This tool deals with African Swine Fever instead of the coronavirus sweeping across the world today, but the math behind it certainly applies for determining what percentage of a population would need to be vaccinated to protect the entire population against infection, if only a vaccine for the condition existed. For African Swine Fever, researchers appear to be close to having an effective vaccine to fight the disease, which has caused the deaths of at least 40% of China's domestic swine herd to date.
Data Visualization
- Introducing Skyline Charts for Tracking Coronavirus Cases in the U.S.
What would happen if we group several charts like the "Tower of Hong Kong" infographic to track the daily progression of the coronavirus in several regions together? Well, when you group a bunch of towers together, you get a skyline featuring a wealth of detailed information, and that's what we introduced to the world of coronavirus data visualization.
- COVID-19 Coronavirus Cases in the U.S.
We created a simple set of bar charts for tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, and deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in individual U.S. states. We update this chart daily.
- The Tower of Hong Kong and Visualizing Coronavirus Case Data
We were impressed by the visualizations put together by the infographic wizards at the South China Morning Post, which directly inspired us to create the skyline charts we just rolled out.
Stock Market Impact
We've developed one of the most advanced models for explaining why the S&P 500 behaves as it does and we've gone from providing weekly to daily updates describing what the market has been doing over the last several weeks and anticipating what it would do next. All are contained in the following articles, presented in chronological order:
- Volatility Rears Up for the S&P 500
- S&P 500 Crashes As Second Levy Flight Event of 2020 Nears Completion
- The S&P 500 Enters New Phase of Volatility
- The S&P 500’s Increasingly Volatile Roller Coaster Ride
There's more we've done, but these are the coronavirus-related highlights. We'd like to close this recap by saying thank you to our regular readers, and welcome to those of you who have discovered some of what we do in the last several weeks!
Image credit: Martin Sanchez
Labels: coronavirus, health, index
When it comes to investing, we often consider the extremes of performance in the U.S. stock market, at least as represented by the S&P 500. Unlike ordinary investing blogs, we often do it with a focus on the worst the market has ever delivered. Here's a quick guide to our posts on the topic!
- The Five Worst Months in S&P 500 History
With September 2008 showing promise, here's our ranking of the five worst monthlong periods for the stock market!
- The Five Worst Bear Markets Since 1871
The current market certainly qualifies as a bear, but then, it's not over yet so we can't say yet where it will rank. Unlike the five worst months, this analysis looks at the total stock market decline over a number of months and years.
- The Worst Returns Ever for the S&P 500
We found the worst ever recorded rate of return for investments made in the S&P 500 for periods of time ranging from one year to 50 years long!
- Visualizing the Worst Case Real Returns for the S&P 500
A graphic depiction of the worst rates of return on investments made in the S&P 500, after adjusting for inflation!
- Lemony Snicket and the S&P 500
What if you had the worst luck ever, and for each time you put money into the S&P 500, you were guaranteed to get the worst rate of return recorded for the length of time that you kept your money in it? Our tool shows you how bad that would be, which really turns out to be surprisingly good....
- S&P 500: Best, Average and Worst Returns Since 1871
Sometimes, it helps put market volatility in perspective if you can see the extremes over time!
- The Worst Returns of the S&P 500 vs The Safest Investment on Earth
Believe it or not, in all the turmoil in which the market is going through, there's real hope for the average investor who has the time and the discipline to see their investment through!
Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't point out that we have a tool that you can use to find the rate of return, with and without inflation, with and without reinvesting dividends, between any two months for the S&P 500, from January 1871 through the near present: The S&P 500 at Your Fingertips!
Labels: index, SP 500, stock market
Welcome to Political Calculations' running index for On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's only roundup of the top posts from each week's blog carnivals dedicated to money, business, career and other related topics! Below, you'll find our index for all the editions that we've assembled over the course of 2008, presented with the newest editions on top and the oldest at the bottom.
Be sure to visit each edition to find the posts we declared to be The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!(TM) or Absolutely essential reading!(TM)
- On the Moneyed Midways - December 19, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - December 12, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - December 6, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 28, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 21, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 15, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 8, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 31, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 24, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 17, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 10, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 3, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 26, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 12 and September 19, 2008 - Double Bonus Issue!
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 5, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 30, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 15, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 8, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 1, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 25, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 18, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 11, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 5, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 28, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 20, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 20, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 14, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 6, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 30, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 23, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 16, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 12, 2008 (Delayed from May 9, 2008!)
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 2, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 25, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 18, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 11, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 4, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 28, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 21, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 14, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 8, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 29, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 22, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 15, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 8, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 1, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 25, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 18, 2008
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 12, 2008 - The first real edition of 2008!
Looking for Older Editions?
- OMM's Running Index for 2007
- The Best Blogs Found in 2006 (and our full 2006 index)!
We just received a neat endorsement from Captain Capitalism: "You Will Visit Political Calculations"! Our favorite excerpt:
... it's one of those web sites where you'll lose yourself for about 3 hours because of all the cool and different things you can calculate based on some models he's programmed
Three hours sounds about right. As a start, that is! If you let us, we might just hook you in for a lot longer than that....
What makes Political Calculations unique in the world of blogs is the majority of our posts are focused on answering questions for which we don't already know the answers. We then do our best to answer those questions using all the problem solving skills we've gained over the years. Along the way, we create tools to help answer them and what's more, we post them here so you can see how we got to the answers we found.
What's really cool is that the tools we build can answer a lot more than just our own questions. You can change the input factors to better agree with how you see things, to update them with the latest data available to make the answers as relevant to the world today as possible, or if you just want to make one of our tools solve a problem that directly affects your life. And they're always capable of answering our favorite question: "What if ...?"
So, in that spirit, here is a list of all our tools to date (or their latest incarnation if we've updated them) and the questions we've attempted answering over our history, all presented in our dynamic table format (click the column headings to sort the table by category, tool title or date.) We hope you have at least a few hours!...
| Political Calculations' Tool Index |
|---|
| Category | Tool | Question/Comment | Date Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | Ahead of the Fed: Setting the Federal Funds Rate | Where will the Federal Reserve set interest rates next? | 2007-10-30 |
| Life | The Moby Quotient | Has your favorite musical artist sold out? | 2007-10-22 |
| Life | Should You Quit Your Job? | A "Geek Logik" tool for finding out if you should quit your current job? | 2007-10-22 |
| Economics | The Business of Bootlegging | How much money is there in the black market for cigarettes? | 2007-10-16 |
| Health | Colon Cancer and Bad Genes | If you have colon cancer, what are the odds that its genetic? | 2007-10-10 |
| Life | Is Your Personal Grooming Adequate? | A "Geek Logik" tool for finding out if you need to do something about your hygiene! | 2007-10-04 |
| Economics | Gains and Losses in the US Job Market | What's the overall gain or loss of jobs in the U.S. this month? | 2007-10-01 |
| Life | Should You Lie? | A "Geek Logik" tool for determining when it might be okay to lie. | 2007-09-25 |
| Real Estate | Austan Goolsbee, Fish Slapping, and Setting the Post Bubble Price of Your House | In the after-the-bubble real estate market, where should you set the price of your house to sell it quickly? | 2007-09-24 |
| Health | Redefining the Health Care Debate - Part 1 | How much should a country (or state) expect to spend on health care per person given its national income per person? | 2007-09-12 |
| Life | Should You Apologize? | A "Geek Logik" tool for finding out when (and how) you should say you're sorry! | 2007-08-28 |
| Economics | Estimating the Natural Rate of Unemployment | Given current economic conditions in the U.S., how much natural unemployment should there be? | 2007-08-21 |
| Life | Should You Start or Stop Procrastinating? | A "Geek Logik" tool for finding out if you ought to get something done now or if you can put it off for later! | 2007-08-14 |
| Environment | Tangerines by the Gallon | Does it really make economic (or environmental) sense to buy your produce locally? | 2007-08-07 |
| Business | Liquidity | Does that business have enough cash to stay afloat? | 2007-07-31 |
| Life | Should You Say It on the Grapevine? | A "Geek Logik" tool for working out when you should pass along that bit of juicy office gossip or keep it to yourself. | 2007-07-26 |
| Public Policy | What If We Bought Cars for the Poor Instead of Light Rail? | Which makes more sense: spending money on light rail systems or buying fuel efficient cars for the poor? | 2007-07-16 |
| Environment | Earth Live: Walk, Bike or Drive? | A "Geek Logik" tool to answer the question of how you should get where you need to go! | 2007-07-12 |
| Life | How Many Beers Should You Have at the Company Picnic? | A "Geek Logik" tool to help you know when you should say when around your co-workers! | 2007-06-21 |
| Environment | Valuing the Lives of Hypermilers | How much are those people who drive way too close behind big trucks on the highway really saying their lives are worth? | 2007-06-19 |
| Economics | Comparing the U.S. Distribution of Income by Age Group | How has the distribution of income for different age groups in the U.S. changed between 1995 and 2005? | 2007-06-05 |
| Investing | Investing and Income Taxes in 2007 | Should you invest in a taxable or a tax free investment vehicle in 2007? | 2007-05-17 |
| Life | How Many Cups of Coffee Should You Drink this Morning? | A "Geek Logik" tool for calculating your optimal caffeine consumption. | 2007-05-14 |
| Life | Should You Buy Something (or Not?) | A "Geek Logik" tool to help you decide if you really ought to buy that item that caught your eye. | 2007-05-03 |
| Investing | How Much Should You Invest in a Stock? | How much of your portfolio should you put into a single stock? | 2007-04-25 |
| Life | Are Your Too Good for Your Job? | A "Geek Logik" tool to help decide if you should be looking for something else to do for a living! | 2007-04-18 |
| Real Estate | The Simple Way to Decide to Rent or Buy | Which makes more sense: renting or buying a home? | 2007-04-16 |
| Taxes | Income Tax: The Original Form 1040 | How much would your taxes have been back in 1913? How long would it take you to do them? | 2007-04-10 |
| Math | Running, Gunning and Weighting for Averages | Got a bunch of numbers for which you need to find the average? | 2007-04-03 |
| Life | Should You Go to the Doctor? | A "Geek Logik" tool to decide if it's time to go see your doctor. | 2007-03-14 |
| Life | Should You Call in Sick? | A "Geek Logik" tool for determining when it's okay to call in sick to work! | 2007-03-13 |
| Environment | The Miracle of Carbon Offsets | What percentage of the annual budget of the U.S. government would it take for the U.S. to buy its way into full compliance with the Kyoto Protocol? | 2007-03-12 |
| Life | The Odds of Winning and the Magic Jackpot | What are the odds of winning the lottery? And what does the jackpot need to be to make it worth the cost of a ticket? | 2007-03-06 |
| Economics | Projections of Poverty | Where will the poverty threshold income level to be set this year? And next year? | 2007-02-21 |
| Life | Picking the Right Date for Valentine's Day | A "Geek Logik" tool for choosing who your best date will be for the most romantic holiday of the year! | 2007-02-14 |
| Public Policy | Approximating Social Security's Rate of Return | If Social Security was a real investment, what rate of return would you receive from it? | 2007-01-30 |
| Public Policy | Presidential Pretensions | If you were the President, what would be the impact of raising the minimum wage in the U.S.? | 2007-01-25 |
| Life | Five More Minutes? | A "Geek Logik" tool to find out if you really should hit the snooze button. Again…. | 2007-01-23 |
| Economics | Estimating the Distribution of U.S. Hourly Wage Earners | How many people make at least X amount of dollars per hour in the U.S.? | 2007-01-16 |
| Life | Should You Keep Your New Year's Resolution? | A "Geek Logik" tool for determining how locked in you are to that New Year's resolution! | 2007-01-09 |
| Personal Finance | Your 2007 Paycheck | How much will Uncle Sam be extracting from every one of your paychecks in 2007? | 2007-01-02 |
| Personal Finance | Chopping Time Off Your Loan | If you wanted to pay your loan earlier by a set amount of time, how much would you have to increase your regular payment? | 2006-12-18 |
| Health | "Fighting Malaria with Math" | How public health officials can get the most bang for their buck in fighting the scourge of the third world. | 2006-12-07 |
| Investing | The S&P 500 at Your Fingertips | What rate of return could you have received from an investment in the S&P 500 index between any two months since January 1871? | 2006-12-06 |
| Personal Finance | Paying Your Loan Off Early | If you increased your payment by a certain amount, how much earlier could you pay off your loan? | 2006-12-05 |
| Business | Converting Amazon Ranks to Book Sales | What does a given Amazon ranking mean in terms of number of book sales? | 2006-12-04 |
| Economics | Odds of Recession and Bond Yield Spreads | For a given Federal Funds Rate, what does the bond yield spread have to be for there to be a given probability of recession? | 2006-11-29 |
| Economics | Mapping Inflation Extremes Since 1913 | What's the best, worst and average rate of inflation for any given period of time in the U.S.? | 2006-11-13 |
| Investing | Lemony Snicket and the S&P 500 | If you actually and consistently got the worst recorded rates of return for the S&P 500 throughout your lifetime, how much would the total of your investments be worth? | 2006-10-25 |
| Business | The Minimum Wage and Small Business | If your business relies upon minimum wage workers, what will be the impact of a hike in the minimum wage to your business? | 2006-10-07 |
| Life | The Lottery Winner's Dilemma | If you won the lottery, should you take the payout as a lump sum now, or take a bunch of smaller payments over a long period of time? | 2006-09-21 |
| Politics | Projecting 2006 U.S. Senate Elections | Who will win a senate seat in 2006? | 2006-09-12 |
| Real Estate | How Much Equity Is in Your Home? | If you're thinking about refinancing, it helps to know the answer to this question! | 2006-08-14 |
| Real Estate | Real Estate Investing: The Capitalization Rate | Which loan option and property should you consider when investing in real estate? | 2006-07-18 |
| Personal Finance | Refinancing: Does Home Loan Consolidation Make Sense? | Should you consolidate your home equity loan and your mortgage? | 2006-07-10 |
| Personal Finance | Refinancing: How Much Will You Save in the Long Run? | If you refinance at a higher payment today, will you save money in the long run? | 2006-07-06 |
| Economics | Consumption vs Income Taxes | Which is better for encouraging personal savings - a consumption tax or an income tax? | 2006-06-27 |
| Personal Finance | Refinancing: Time to Break Even | If refinancing your loan costs more money up front but gives you a lower payment, how long will it take to break even? | 2006-06-26 |
| Investing | Predicting Bankruptcy | How likely is it that a publicly traded company is undergoing financial distress? | 2006-06-01 |
| Real Estate | The Money Factor in Leasing | What is the money factor and what does it mean for your lease? | 2006-05-22 |
| Investing | S&P 500: Best, Average and Worst Returns Since 1871 | What is the best, worst and average rate of return ever recorded for the S&P 500? | 2006-05-16 |
| Personal Finance | Should You Trade in Your Gas Guzzler? | Does it finally make sense to trade in that old car for a newer, more fuel-efficient model? | 2006-04-26 |
| Public Policy | Determining Equivalent Teacher Pay | If teachers only work 6 hours a day for 8 months a year, how does their pay compare to someone who works full time 12 months a year? | 2006-04-19 |
| Economics | Reckoning the Odds of Recession | What are the odds that the U.S. will be in a recession 12 months from now? | 2006-04-10 |
| Environment | Are Compact Fluorescents a Bright Idea? | If you swiched your light bulbs from incandescents to compact fluorescents, does it make economic sense? | 2006-03-06 |
| Health | How Many Cans of Diet Soda Can You Drink Safely? | If you can't get enough of that artificially sweetened liquid, this tool can help you find out where to draw the line! | 2006-02-21 |
| Public Policy | What If the Death Tax Were an Income Tax? | How much would your annual income tax change if you effectively paid your estate taxes on the installment plan? | 2006-02-13 |
| Math | Running Numbers for Reporters | Most reporters have no real ability or feeling for what numbers mean - our tool is designed to help! | 2006-02-01 |
| Taxes | Exploiting the Child Interest Income Credit | How much could you save on your tax bill by taking advantage of the child interest income tax credit? | 2006-01-25 |
| Investing | Predicting the Rate of Return for an I-bond | Where will the U.S. Treasury set the I-bond interest rate next? | 2006-01-11 |
| Business | Guesstimating the Cost of Corporate Credit | What does it mean when a business has its debt rating increase from BBB+ to AAA-? | 2006-01-09 |
| Personal Finance | Employee Stock Purchase Plan Returns | Does it make sense to buy your company's stock through an ESPP? | 2005-12-23 |
| Investing | Calculating Return on Invested Capital | What is ROIC, how do you figure it out and why should you use it when choosing your investments? | 2005-12-02 |
| Public Policy | Estimating the U.S. Population | How much will the population of the U.S. be in the future? What was it in the past? | 2005-11-18 |
| Investing | Changing Value in the Stock Market | If your stock went up by a nickel per share, what does that mean to your bottom line? | 2005-11-11 |
| Business | How Much Is that Idea Really Worth? | How much potential does your idea for a new product or service really have? | 2005-10-18 |
| Personal Finance | Paying Off Your Credit Card Bill | How long would it take to pay off your credit card if you only made the minimum payments? | 2005-10-14 |
| Personal Finance | Is It Worth the Drive? | Should you drive further to save a few cents per gallon when it's time to fill you tank? | 2005-09-14 |
| Real Estate | Projecting U.S. Median Housing Prices | A pre-bubble look at the long term trend in U.S. housing prices! | 2005-08-30 |
| Investing | Mapping Stock Market Extremes | What's the best and worst rate of returns for a range of holding periods for an investment in the total stock market? | 2005-08-05 |
| Politics | Projecting the Growth of Pork | How much political pork will be packed into the government budget of the future? | 2005-08-03 |
| Personal Finance | Your Thrift Savings Plan Portfolio | If you work for the government, what can you expect the future value of your TSP portfolio? | 2005-08-02 |
| Personal Finance | Are You Wealthy? | How much wealth do you have to have to be considered wealthy at your age? | 2005-07-25 |
| Personal Finance | Do Hybrids Really Save Money? | Thinking about getting a hybrid car? Will you really save money once you factor in all your costs? | 2005-07-08 |
| Personal Finance | Your Student Loan | What will your student loan payments be? | 2005-07-06 |
| Personal Finance | Paying Off Your Loan | How much will your loan cost you? And how much will it take to pay it off at a certain date? | 2005-07-01 |
| Personal Finance | Saving for College | How much do you need to save to cover the cost of going to college? | 2005-06-08 |
| Personal Finance | Revisiting the Lottery | What does the jackpot need to be to be able to justify buying a ticket? | 2005-06-01 |
| Personal Finance | Your Education and Your Earnings | What path can you expect your earnings to take throughout your life? | 2005-05-24 |
| Public Policy | Slashing Social Security Benefits | How much can you expect your "promised" benefits to be slashed when the Social Security trust fund runs out of money? | 2005-05-02 |
| Taxes | How Much Do You Pay in Gas Taxes? | How much tax money does the government take from you each year when you add up all you pay at the pump? | 2005-04-29 |
| Economics | Average Wages in the U.S. | What was the average wage in the U.S. in the past? And what can we expect in the future? | 2005-04-27 |
| Investing | Lemony Snicket vs. King Midas | What's the absolute best and worst you could get from your investment in the total stock market? | 2005-04-26 |
| Health | The Cost of Risk vs Benefit | When is a medical test with low odds of detecting a condition justifiable? | 2005-04-21 |
| Investing | Your Investment Portfolio | What value will your investment portfolio have in the future? | 2005-04-19 |
| Politics | Truth and the Time to React | Using the math of physics, we fact check an anti-US reporters claims. | 2005-04-15 |
| Health | Estimating Your Life Expectancy | How long can you expect to live? | 2005-04-12 |
| Life | Will You Be Checking Any Bags Today? | How much will it cost for you to bring those oversize or overweight or additional bags with you? | 2005-04-11 |
| Investing | Annuity Payments | What stream of income can you expect in retirement after investing in an annuity? | 2005-03-28 |
| Politics | Calculating Election Accuracy | How accurate is the vote count in the last election? | 2005-03-17 |
| Investing | Investing: How Long/ | How long will it take to make a million dollars? Ten million dollars? | 2005-02-25 |
| Politics | The President's Plan for Social Security and You | Would you have come out ahead with the plan President Bush initially proposed for reforming Social Security? | 2005-02-11 |
| Investing | Investing: Rate of Return | If you initially invested P dollars, which is now worth F dollars, over T years, what rate of return did you get? | 2005-02-08 |
| Investing | Investing: Future Value | How much will your investment be worth in the future? | 2005-02-04 |
| Politics | Recounting the Odds | How likely is it that the results of an election changed by so much during a recount of the votes? | 2004-12-29 |
| Politics | Simple Majority Win | How far away is a political candidate from victory in an election? | 2004-12-14 |
| Life | MSM versus Blogger Influence | How much readership does someone in the MSM have compared to a blogger? | 2004-12-10 |
All in all, not too bad - this past year, we've averaged roughly one new tool per week, which accounts for around 20% of all we do.
But that other 80% is a whole other post altogether - we've tied up enough of your free time as it is!
Welcome to Political Calculations' running index for On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's only roundup of the top posts from each week's blog carnivals dedicated to money, business, career and other related topics! Below, you'll find all the editions that we've assembled over the course of 2007, presented with the newest editions on top and the oldest at the bottom.
Be sure to visit each edition to find the posts we declared to be The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!(TM) or Absolutely essential reading!(TM)
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 10, 2008 - The best blogs we discovered in 2007!
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 4, 2008 - The best posts from 2007, and The Best Post of the Year, Anywhere!
- On the Moneyed Midways - December 21, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - December 14, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - December 8, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 30, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 24, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 16, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 10, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 2, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 26, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 12, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 6, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 28, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 21, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 15, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 7, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 31, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 24, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 17, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 10, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 3, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 28, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 20, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 14, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 6, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 29, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 23, 2007 - Double Edition!
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 9, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 2, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 26, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 18, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 12, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 4, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 27, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 21, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 13, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 6, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 30, 2007 - Everything but the Carnival of the Capitalists!
- Carnival of the Capitalists - March 26, 2007 - Special edition of OMM!
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 16, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 9, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 3, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 23, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 16, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 9, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 2, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 26, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 20, 2007
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 12, 2007
- The Best Blogs Found in 2006 (and our full 2006 index)!
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