Archive for March, 2009
Parsing the FED (updated Mar 18)
18 Mar 2009The Wall Street Journal provides an "interpretation" of most FED press releases, comparing them to previous statements.
US Debt
13 Mar 2009
European Unemployment
13 Mar 2009
Household Net Worth down $11 trillion
13 Mar 2009Lots of good analyses here. click on the tabs for differ datasets and presentations. Related article.
England and Wales House Price Map (Feb 09 data)
13 Mar 2009
FTSE Dividends Heat Map
13 Mar 2009
G20 Wishlist
In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Interactive Source: FT
13 Mar 2009
Information Design Patterns
13 Mar 2009
OECD 2008 Factbook in Gapminder
13 Mar 2009
Trend Compass
In: Interactive Reference
13 Mar 2009
The Master Does it Again
9 Mar 2009Hans Rosling, creator of Gapminder, creates another wonderful presentation on long term global trends (broken up into three parts):
here’s his classic 2006 Ted conference video “Debunking Myths About the ‘Third World’”:
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- RJS: Highly entertaining this, however misleading it might be--if indeed it is misleading. The problem is [...]
- Al: Designers out there will enjoy this 'making of', walking through the designs they tried and discarde [...]
- Matt: Totally misleading. The recent spending cuts were not an Obama policy; Afghanistan was overwhelmingl [...]
- Mike Liveright: Two comments, though I do like the look and results... 1) Since $'s are linear, I think that a 2 [...]
- fatmike182: just a note concerning the photo of the car: it's an actual sculpture by the artist Erwin Wurm. Defi [...]
Frozen Assets: Michael Lewis on Iceland
In: Bailout Commentary Finance Global Economy
9 Mar 2009I know this is a chart blog, but I love Michael Lewis’ writing. Here’s a great article on how Iceland got in trouble.
Link: Lewis’s Dec 2008 article on the demise of Wall Street.