Justin Fox, Columnist

How Baggy Are Your Jeans? And 10 Other Charts to Explain 2024

Whether the issue was climate change, social trust, inflation rates or, yes, casual-Friday fashion, Bloomberg Opinion had the data.

December 29, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

By Justin Fox

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

See chart no. 11 below.
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It was a year of record-setting temperatures and stock prices, big elections in the UK, India and US, violent upheaval in the Middle East that didn’t stop gasoline prices from falling, an olive oil crisis, a shocking CEO murder and, well, lots of other things. But most of all, here at Bloomberg Opinion, it was a year of charts. Thousands of them.