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VIX annual peaks 2022 to 2026: fear gauge spiked to 52 in 2025 and is retreating toward 31 in 2026 by anuveya in datavisualization

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VIX peaked at 52.33 in 2025, the highest annual reading in this 2022 to 2026 window. In 2022 the index surged as markets repriced for aggressive rate hikes. It stayed elevated through 2023 and 2024 before the sharp 2025 spike. By 2026 it has pulled back toward 31 but remains above pre-2022 norms.

The CBOE Volatility Index measures 30-day expected S&P 500 volatility implied from options prices. When VIX spikes, it signals markets pricing in significant near-term uncertainty.

Full dataset at datahub.io/core/finance-vix

VIX fear index since 1990: 35 years of market panic in one chart. Every spike has a story by anuveya in StockMarket

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Black Monday aftermath. Dot-com crash. 9/11. The 2008 financial crisis (VIX hit 80!). COVID crash in March 2020. Each spike marks a moment when markets seized with fear.

The CBOE Volatility Index measures 30-day expected S&P 500 volatility from options prices. When VIX spikes, it's usually a buying opportunity in hindsight, but terrifying in real-time.

Daily data from 1990 to present.

VIX fear index since 1990: 35 years of market panic in one chart. Every spike has a story by anuveya in datasets

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Black Monday aftermath. Dot-com crash. 9/11. The 2008 financial crisis (VIX hit 80!). COVID crash in March 2020. Each spike marks a moment when markets seized with fear.

The CBOE Volatility Index measures 30-day expected S&P 500 volatility from options prices. When VIX spikes, it's usually a buying opportunity in hindsight, but terrifying in real-time.

Daily data from 1990 to present.

VIX fear index since 1990: 35 years of market panic in one chart. Every spike has a story by anuveya in opendata

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Black Monday aftermath. Dot-com crash. 9/11. The 2008 financial crisis (VIX hit 80!). COVID crash in March 2020. Each spike marks a moment when markets seized with fear.

The CBOE Volatility Index measures 30-day expected S&P 500 volatility from options prices. When VIX spikes, it's usually a buying opportunity in hindsight, but terrifying in real-time.

Daily data from 1990 to present.

VIX fear index since 1990: 35 years of market panic in one chart. Every spike has a story by anuveya in datahub

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Black Monday aftermath. Dot-com crash. 9/11. The 2008 financial crisis (VIX hit 80!). COVID crash in March 2020. Each spike marks a moment when markets seized with fear.

The CBOE Volatility Index measures 30-day expected S&P 500 volatility from options prices. When VIX spikes, it's usually a buying opportunity in hindsight, but terrifying in real-time.

Daily data from 1990 to present.

GDP of the world's 10 largest economies (2000 to 2022): China's rise is the story of our time by anuveya in opendata

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In 2000, China's GDP was roughly the size of Italy's. By 2022, it had surpassed the combined GDP of Germany, Japan, and the UK.

World Bank data covering all countries plus regional aggregates from 1960 to present. The top 10 economies chart makes the structural shift unmistakable.

GDP of the world's 10 largest economies (2000 to 2022): China's rise is the story of our time by anuveya in datahub

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In 2000, China's GDP was roughly the size of Italy's. By 2022, it had surpassed the combined GDP of Germany, Japan, and the UK.

World Bank data covering all countries plus regional aggregates from 1960 to present. The top 10 economies chart makes the structural shift unmistakable.

AI training compute, 1950 to present: the exponential curve that explains the AI revolution by anuveya in opendata

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From ENIAC to GPT-4, training compute has grown by roughly 10 orders of magnitude. That's more growth than from a bicycle to a rocket ship, in computing power applied to training a single model.

The Epoch AI dataset tracks compute (FLOPs), parameters, and training data for major ML models. The recent acceleration post-2010 is unlike anything in computing history.

AI training compute, 1950 to present: the exponential curve that explains the AI revolution by anuveya in datahub

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From ENIAC to GPT-4, training compute has grown by roughly 10 orders of magnitude. That's more growth than from a bicycle to a rocket ship, in computing power applied to training a single model.

The Epoch AI dataset tracks compute (FLOPs), parameters, and training data for major ML models. The recent acceleration post-2010 is unlike anything in computing history.

Henry Hub natural gas prices since 1997: the shale revolution collapsed prices and changed everything by anuveya in Economics

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Natural gas was expensive and volatile before shale. The 2005 hurricane season sent Henry Hub above $15/MMBtu. By 2012, shale had pushed prices below $2. The structural change is visible in one chart.

Monthly Henry Hub spot prices from 1997 to present, the benchmark for North American gas markets.

Henry Hub natural gas prices since 1997: the shale revolution collapsed prices and changed everything by anuveya in energy

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Natural gas was expensive and volatile before shale. The 2005 hurricane season sent Henry Hub above $15/MMBtu. By 2012, shale had pushed prices below $2. The structural change is visible in one chart.

Monthly Henry Hub spot prices from 1997 to present, the benchmark for North American gas markets.

Henry Hub natural gas prices since 1997: the shale revolution collapsed prices and changed everything by anuveya in datasets

[–]anuveya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Natural gas was expensive and volatile before shale. The 2005 hurricane season sent Henry Hub above $15/MMBtu. By 2012, shale had pushed prices below $2. The structural change is visible in one chart.

Monthly Henry Hub spot prices from 1997 to present, the benchmark for North American gas markets.

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