<blockquote>The chart shows how easy it is to frame market data in a way that sounds either scary or benign, depending on your inclination. “The Chinese stock market has dropped 32 percent in a month” is scary. “The Chinese stock market is up 70 percent over the last year” sounds great. Both are true.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/upshot/how-to-make-sense-of-chinas-plummeting-stock-market.html?abt=0002&amp;abg=0">How to Make Sense of China’s Plummeting Stock Market - The New York Times</a>.