Archive for March, 2009

A decent article by Martin Baily and Douglas Elliot on how big the crisis is – and comparisons of different estimates of the remaining problem:

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An amusing list of central bank salaries. (Bernanke’s underpaid)

Of course, they don’t mention their incomes before or after service.

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(note: appears to have some display problems related to updating the table at the bottom – it takes a few seconds for the map to update)

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Related Washington Post article.

G20 Stimulus

Of course, not being in terms of GDP, that isn’t the best perspective.

Here’s the original data from Brookings:

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And here’s a nice interactive heatmap of the plans (roll-over for country details):

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Interactive tables and charts showing different kinds of IB operations over time (from the FT).

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socialism-rich It’s been a slow week graphic-wise, but I came across two fantastic articles on the crisis –  can’t recommend them enough:

Matt Taibbi (Hunter S Thompson successor):
The Big Takeover

Simon Johnson (former IMF Chief Economist): 
The Quiet Coup

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A very powerful interactive analytical presentation/tool.
From Russell Investments (via Ritholtz)

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Last fall FlowingData ran a hilarious Personal Visualization project/contest with lots of great examples of clear design. (My personal favorite was the Bedposted application)

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Timeless

In: Humor

23 Mar 2009

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Not the best labeled table I’ve seen, and putting the newest data on the left is a bit odd – the numbers themselves are depressing, of course (if you own a house).

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Click on a bank to highlight it, then move the year slider at the bottom to watch the rankings change

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Not economics related, but an interesting interactive comparison of observations of a common data set over different sources. The related article is a good read.

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I recently came across FlowingData, a fantastic blog of data analysis and graphic design. Nathan covers a lot of the same territory that I do here, but casts a much broader net and has a lot of discussion about the design methods and tools of the trade. This post about Financial Crisis visualizations is a great example. The links below are to graphics I haven’t posted before (most of which are from a Good Magazine contest).

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AIG Bailout

In: Bailout US Economy

23 Mar 2009

A nice chart by Nicolas Rapp and a team at Associated Press.

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