Spending on infrastructure has risen steeply since the 1950s, even when inflation and population growth are taken into account (see chart).
Instead, his legacy will linger in the shape of the biggest economic imbalances in American history: a negative household saving rate and a record current-account deficit (see chart 1).
State and local governments account for most public investment (see chart).
Most of the information requested from the district appears fairly routine for an audit: cash journal, chart of accounts, checking account information, contracts with employees and contracts with independent contractors and subcontractors.
Non-Japanese operating profits at the top six houses have grown, on average, by around 20% a year for the past six years (see chart), and now account for roughly half of their total operating profits.
As it is, funds can quietly take tens of thousands of dollars from an investor's account yet fulfill disclosure obligations by printing a chart in a prospectus containing hypothetical returns.
Not surprisingly, renewables grew ten times faster than the OECD average from 1990 to 2010 and now account for 20% of electricity output (see chart).
Crisis and its contagion are now constrained by current-account surpluses, where once big deficits gaped (see chart 2), and by fat and growing foreign-exchange reserves.
Indeed, a report by Dresdner Kleinwort Benson finds that the euro area displays an extraordinary degree of balance at present: all three sectors the government, the private sector and the current account are in broad financial balance (see chart).
Its current-account deficit is almost as big as Greece's (see chart 3).
The country's roaring exports contributed to a growing current-account surplus, which exceeded 10% of its GDP in 2007 (see chart 3).
In America they are expected to account for one-fifth of all share-trading in three years' time (see chart).
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