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Year in Rearview

Our favorite charts of 2024

A visual look back on the year.

12/24/24 9:14AM

Well, it was a year. And judging from Sherwood’s many charts, it was an interesting and eventful one. Before we begin 2025, I asked Sherwood writers to choose their favorites. Here are a selection of charts we made this year that are really important, really clever, or just really well liked by us. Some are simple line charts, while others are satellite images or in-depth interactives. All will hopefully make you look smart to your relatives this holiday season.

Forget the Magnificent 7: We coined the BATMMAAN stocks:

Donald Trump won the presidential election — and so did a federal immigration contractor and private-prison company:

Reddit is only the latest social-media company having its day in the sun:

A Short History Of Social Media Hype — Sherwood News

The nation’s electric-vehicle charging goals are a long way off:

The Line Rider tries to stick the Fed’s soft landing:

Unemployment Insurance Initial Claims

Turns out, our food-shopping preferences are very regional:

America’s supermarket mapped social — Sherwood News

It’s tough to be Elon Musk’s neighbor. Look what he did to an adjacent property in Texas:

The insatiable appetite for AI:

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta spent billions on artificial intelligence.

You were right: Meta’s Threads timeline was totally chaotic. We checked:

Hollywood ran low on new ideas:

How Sweetgreen charged $15 for salad and still lost money:

Jeans didn't go out of style, but the style certainly has changed:

OpenAI is worth... a lot of other companies:

Streaming has changed a lot about music, including the length of songs:

What an investment in Berkshire Hathaway actually includes:

What do you get if you buy $1,000 of Berkshire Hathaway — Sherwood News

Where did all the stocks go? Big tech ate a lot of little tech:

Friends are the new spouses when it comes to buying a home:

The pandemic darlings aren’t looking so hot:

This year you hedged your stocks with stocks, not bonds:

Chinese yields are signaling a depression:

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The Trump administration is reportedly planning a 50% made-in-America requirement for USMCA tariff relief

Qualifying for USMCA-related lower tariffs may soon require more US-made vehicle components, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to introduce a 50% US content requirement for vehicles covered by the trade pact to receive lower tariffs. The content would be measured by cost, according to the WSJ.

There currently isn’t any US-specific requirement for those lower tariff rates, but in order to receive preferential tariffs, vehicles are must contain at least 75% regional content (components made in North America). Per Reuters reporting, the Trump admin is seeking to raise the regional requirement to 82%.

These reported plans are subject to change as the US negotiates USMCA terms with Mexico over the next few months.

Overall, Tesla will likely have the easiest time qualifying for any stricter requirements. The automaker’s vehicles contained the highest amount of US/Canadian content in 2025, according to American University research. Ford, GM, and Stellantis all scored lower.

Notably: the underlying government data that many domestic content measurements rely on intentionally combines US and Canadian components, so it’s difficult to know exactly how much of any given vehicle is specifically US-made.

Exclusive | Trump Administration Wants Autos Under USMCA to Be at Least 50% Made in America

These reported plans are subject to change as the US negotiates USMCA terms with Mexico over the next few months.

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The $640,000 Luce makes the average Ferrari look like a bargain

Put aside the shape; put aside the smoothing out of Ferrari’s iconic sharp edges; put aside, even, the calls from former Chairman and President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo to “take the Prancing Horse off.” On the grounds of price alone, Luce detractors might have a point.

By now, many of us will have read the criticisms of Ferrari’s first fully electric vehicle, as the Luce — which was unveiled to the world earlier this week and promptly saw the company’s shares crash out in New York and Milan — gets subtly shaded by competitors online and not-so-subtly shaded by basically everyone else.

What makes all of this worse for Ferrari is that, even by the luxury car maker’s notoriously high standards, they’ve slapped a pretty hefty price tag on the Luce, and the company’s CEO, Benedetto Vigna, has already been forced to defend the €550,000 ($640,000) price point, saying yesterday that it’s “fair to pay for innovation,” per Reuters.

While Ferrari’s cars have been getting more expensive of late, as recently as 2022, Ferrari’s average revenue per car sold was around $340,000. At nearly twice that price, this new electric model is obviously proving a little much (visually, conceptually, and financially) for many loyal and long-standing fans of the Prancing Horse to stomach.