Just study the deficit chart below.

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Citing a study from Merrill Lynch, the CTIA chart says the average U.S. consumer pays 5 cents per minute for voice service--a rate cheaper than other advanced telecom markets, such as the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Japan.

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The chart reproduced above is from a CBO study of options to change the tax treatment of charitable giving.

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For his post on the Forbes website, Avik Roy produced a chart showing results from the Health Tracking Study Physician Survey.

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The above chart is drawing on the insights of that study and attempting to measure the relative sensibleness of different possibly monetary unions.

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By drawing stick figures Dr Lee can bring up a graph showing the spread of the population covered by the study, and then by sketching a battery alongside it she can bring up another chart illustrating how specific groups of people use different amounts of power.

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Yet it is the 1990s that have seen executive pay soar to unprecedented levels, as shown in a study by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy (see top chart), with knock-on benefits further down the senior professional food chain.

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