Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US national debt

correlates with

US candle market retail sales

r = 0.99399% · 2002-2022
US national debtUS candle market retail sales

These two datasets have a 99% correlation over 2002-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

US candle market retail salescandles.org
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

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