Infographics
The Receipts, in pictures.
Visual receipts from the labor market and the builder economy. Sector-level data, plain charts, no spin. Pick one and read it like a story.
Forced to leave. Choosing what to build.
Layoffs settled below the pre-2020 baseline. New business applications climbed to a new floor and stayed. Read together, the two series trace a forced-transition pipeline the unemployment rate does not show.
What 12 regional economies actually reported.
The Beige Book pulls reports from all 12 Fed districts. The headlines collapse it into one number. This visual keeps the districts separate so you can see who is expanding, who is flat, and who is quietly contracting.
Seventeen years apart. The line barely moved.
In 2009, all-female founding teams received about 1.3% of US venture capital dollars. In 2026, after 17 years of pledges and named diversity initiatives, the figure is 2.1%. The conversation moved by orders of magnitude. The number did not.
Not a blip. A baseline shift.
Twelve months of JOLTS data for Information, Finance and Insurance, and Professional and Business Services, plotted against each sector's own five-year baseline. The headline rate is calm. The white-collar receipts are not.
The sectors that built the workforce are redistributing it.
White-collar America is not collapsing all at once. It is being quietly redistributed sector by sector. See where the floor has moved against each industry's five-year baseline.
The floor moved.
The predictable layoff floor in the knowledge economy has shifted. This visual maps the new baseline against the old one across the sectors most exposed to white-collar work.
Uneven expansion.
Headline GDP is back in expansion territory. Small business receipts are not. See where Q1 2026 growth is landing and where Main Street is being left out.