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When Peter, Paul and Mary sang "I'm leaving on a jet plane" they took John Denver's lyrics to the top of the charts. If you're leaving on a jet plane, chances are you bought your ticket right after Thanksgiving according @alkamitech's Chart of the Week alkami.com/resources/data…

Keith Richards didn't mourn groceries before Thanksgiving in "Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, who could hang a name on you?" But if Linda Keith (aka Ruby) had @alkamitech's chart of the week she'd have known the Tuesday before Thanksgiving is 62% more crowded! alkami.com/resource/how-c…

Sly and the Family Stone were likely not thinking of investor personas when they sang, "The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then makes no difference what group I'm in", but the @alkamitech Chart of the Week reveals three archetypes in the data bites alkami.com/resource/inves…

When The Clash sang, "I'm all lost in the supermarket, I can no longer shop happily" they weren't referring to BNPL's role in retail therapy, which according to @alkamitech's chart of the week shows there are 5.17x more BNPL users in 2023 than in 2019 alkami.com/resource/buy-n…

"I can't drive 55!" - Sammy Hagar's protest after a ticket might've boosted his insurance but according to @alkamitech's chart of the week, we're all getting a hike. From 1/2022 to 5/2024, auto insurance increased by 28 percent, from $194.96 to $248.70 alkami.com/resource/auto-…

If Jon Bon Jovi had access to @alkamitech's chart of the week when he wrote, "Lets slip right off these tracks, we'll fly or we might crash" he would've had six month to write it. Peak coaster airtime is July, Roller Coaster was released in a December. alkami.com/resource/amuse…

Dire Straits sang, "We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries" - which was NOT about fancy camping. If it was, according to the @alkamitech chart of the week, it would play most in February when camping transaction amounts peak! alkami.com/resource/peak-…

Som fans consider Lord Huron's "Not Dead Yet" a theme song of personal resilience. It could be an ode to physical books as well; according to the @alkamitech chart of the week, buyers spent $98.09 at bookstores in 2023 while eBook readers spent $82.43. alkami.com/resource/are-b…

Jerry Garcia's "Every silver lining's got a touch of grey" wasn't about the Grey Lady (the New York Times). But maybe it should have been; according to the @alkamitech chart of the week, the Times was five times more popular than the Journal or the Post. alkami.com/resource/are-n…

Does competition work? According to the @alkamitech chart of the week cell phone bills stayed steady in 2022 & 2023 at about $150.00/month while inflation averaged 5%. MTS in 1949 cost (in 2024 dollars) about $240/month and $5.50/per call. alkami.com/resource/consu…

When the Kinks sang, "Everybody's in movies, it doesn't matter who you are", they could not have imagined how big streaming has become. According to the @alkamitech chart of the week, in three years spending on streaming increased by over 40%! alkami.com/resource/how-m…

Hard lyrics to hear, "Father of mine, tell me where did you go?" Art Alexakis sings his story. Maybe others wondered and bought DNA tests, but @alkamitech's chart of the week shows lack of repeatability might create spending declines on DNA test kits alkami.com/resource/how-p…

'Electricity' by OMD was one of the most influential singles of its era. Thirty years before the Tesla Supercharger, it was likely not about public EV charging - which according to @alkamitech's chart of the week grew over 100% from July 2022 to July 2023! alkami.com/resource/is-us…

In 1971 David Bowie sang "Andy Warhol looks a scream, hang him on my wall". Warhol is a style on DALL·E, but according to the @alkamitech chart of the week, words defeat pictures as ChatGPT created a surge of 5.5x more new paid subscribers for OpenAI alkami.com/resource/how-m…

When Louis Armstrong sang, "Sweeter than the honey is countin' my money" - he must not have been in the 2023 cohort of savers as the @alkamitech chart of the week shows a two year decline in account holders sending money to an investment account. alkami.com/resource/did-a…

Billy Joel wrote, "you'll have to deal with pressure" during a writer’s block, not from ballooning credit card payments. But according to @alkamitech's chart of the of the week, student loans just created the pressure of credit card bills jumping by 60% alkami.com/resource/what-…

Paul McCartney did NOT write the lyrics, "We can work it out" about student loan payments (it was about Jane Asher) but according to @alkamitech's chart of the week, those payments came roaring back, growing at 127% in October alkami.com/resource/how-m…

In Private Investigations, Mark Knopfler sings "I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt", a good PI with @alkamitech's data would source this Chart of the Week which ID's retail accounts operating business by finding key business type expenses alkami.com/what-are-busin…

When Leon Russell wrote This Masquerade, I'm certain "we're lost in a masquerade" did not refer to businesses operating out of consumer accounts. One clue; almost 75% had payroll payments as seen in @alkamitech's chart of the week alkami.com/resource/can-p…

After Cars (here in my car, I feel safest of all), Gary Numan wrote Music for Chameleons which sadly was NOT about businesses operating out of retail accounts. According to @alkamitech's chart of the week, the top 25% are spending almost $4.5M per year! alkami.com/resource/are-b…