Archive for the ‘trendmints’ tag
TrendMints: December Spending Down
Last month I introduced a series of posts I’m calling TrendMints - I use the anonymous data from Mint.com’s 650,000 users to look at trends in the overall economy. While there are certainly a number of pitfalls in such a calculation, it is still a useful guide.
First, let’s take a look at the average spending, [...]
TrendMints: An insight tool into the American economy
Last night while looking at my finances, I came up with an idea - let’s try to deduce trends about the economy using the anonymized data generated by Mint. I’ll be exploring this in a new series of posts which I’ll call, for lack of a better name, TrendMints. But first, some background.
Mint is an incredibly useful [...]
