Stock and Flow

Income is what came in. Wealth is what is owned. Stock and Flow puts the economist's distinction between a flow and a stock into the plainest words we could find. Income is measured over a period, like a year's salary. Wealth is measured on a day, like the value of a house and a pension on the first of the month. Much of the argument about taxing wealth depends on keeping the two apart. The design puts the difference on a mug, a print or a shirt. D015 · Mug.