Archive for April, 2009

Interactive chart showing earnings and market cap since crisis began.

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Some nice presentations from creditloan.com:

Why everyone hates AIG:

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US Stimulus Package breakdown:

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Corporate bailouts since 1970:

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the USA’s credit rating (below left) and How investment money is spent on wall street (below right. and I knew it!)

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Tax Day

In: Innovative US Economy

15 Apr 2009

Classic infographic, updated with Obama’s 2009 budget request. Item circles are proportional in size to their spending totals.

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some random tax statistics (below left), and a motion bubble chart (below right) showing increase in tax burden since 1901 (note: you can change the axis to play with different stats; click on a bubble with “trails” on to draw the history)

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the design of these infographics bother my statistical aesthetic a bit, but overall they are quite effective. (From Tony Ng via FlowingData)

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Interactive map displays the performance of all the major global equity markets for today, or versus a selection of time periods (5days/10days/1month/etc up to a year). You can also click on any exchange to drill down to more information.

[Note: There is no direct link to the map (silly java), you have to click on the "Market Macromap" window on this page]

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Click along the header tabs to view different explanations/indicators of declining gas usage. Related article.

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Interactive survey of 55 economists on a number of indicators and issues.

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From Moody’s. Click on countries for more info. Appears to roughly use the 2 quarters of negative growth definition, based on “current” information(updated as data becomes available).

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For major cities/states, based on employment, housing, and industrial production. Click on the slider to see monthly data back to 1994, click on a state to see cities on the right. (From MSNBC & Moody’s)

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A little dated now, but I didn’t come across the online version of this until today. it’d be nice if they kept it up to date.

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Nothing new, but you have to love the cycle annotation/commentary
(typical humor from Soot and Ashes)

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