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Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Each year, the U.S. government tells Americans how much money the country spends on stuff, like houses, cars, and alcohol. Organizing this information by income, Josh Zumbrun at The Wall Street Journal produces this nice chart of spending on food, health care, and other categories. Share of Spending on Certain Categories, by Income Group Two clear stories. When you have money, you spend less on the stuff that ensures you survive the day and more on the stuff that ensures that you (and your children, and your possessions, and your estate) survive and thrive for many years. I was thinking about this while reading Tyler Cowen's Sunday column in the New York Times, which was titled, "It's Not the Inequality; It's the Immobility.
" How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck. By Daniel Wesley How Americans spent their income in 2012: How Americans spent their income in 2011: How Americans spent their income in 2010: How Americans spent their income in 2009: Click to enlarge Comments comments.
Understanding old British money - pounds, shillings and pence. Please note: We have mainly written about England, as that is the country within the UK where our students live.
We would be very happy for schools and visitors to send us information we can add to our website on Wales and Scotland. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, the pound was divided into twenty shillings or 240 pennies. It remained so until decimalization on 15 February 1971. Old money was divided into: pounds (£ or l ) shillings (s. or /-) and pennies (d.)
There were twenty (20) shillings per pound. The shilling was subdivided into twelve (12) pennies.