Archive for March, 2009
Central Bank Salaries
30 Mar 2009An amusing list of central bank salaries. (Bernanke’s underpaid)
Of course, they don’t mention their incomes before or after service.
Consumer Loan Balances
30 Mar 2009(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)
G-20 Stimulus Spending
In: Bailout Commentary Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: Washington Post US Economy
30 Mar 2009Related Washington Post article.
Of course, not being in terms of GDP, that isn’t the best perspective.
Here’s the original data from Brookings:
And here’s a nice interactive heatmap of the plans (roll-over for country details):
Investment Banking (Q109 update)
In: Bailout Finance Interactive Maps Source: FT Stock Market US Economy Updated regularly
29 Mar 2009Interactive tables and charts showing different kinds of IB operations over time (from the FT).
Read These Now
27 Mar 2009
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
Personal Visualizations
23 Mar 2009Last fall FlowingData ran a hilarious Personal Visualization project/contest with lots of great examples of clear design. (My personal favorite was the Bedposted application)
Global Housing Prices
23 Mar 2009Not 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).
Top 20 Financial Institutions, 1999-2009
In: Finance Global Economy Interactive Source: FT US Economy
23 Mar 2009Click on a bank to highlight it, then move the year slider at the bottom to watch the rankings change
The Value of Letters
In: Reference Source: NYT
23 Mar 2009Not economics related, but an interesting interactive comparison of observations of a common data set over different sources. The related article is a good read.
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).
AIG Bailout
In: Bailout US Economy
23 Mar 2009
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What Will It Take to Stabilize the Banks?
In: Bailout Commentary US Economy
30 Mar 2009A decent article by Martin Baily and Douglas Elliot on how big the crisis is – and comparisons of different estimates of the remaining problem: