At some point, we’re going to have to stop referring to every red-hued outbreak map as being zombie-like, but this is not that point. It’s nearly Halloween, the #2 movie in the nation is Zombieland, and yesterday the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis warned that unemployment may exceed 10% before the end of the year. This is the appropriate way to view unemployment today.
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![Animation: Target's Spread Across The U.S.](../../consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/022309-002-targetmap494.jpg?w=300&h=181&crop=1)
Animation: Target's Spread Across The U.S.
Last summer, we highlighted an ominous-looking animation that traced the spread of Walmart stores across the American landscape over the past 5 decades. Now the same guy behind that map has put together a new one, this time tracing Target’s growth.