Archive for May, 2009
Nationwide Rent to Buy Ratios
In: Housing Maps Source: NYT
31 May 2009This data is from a year ago. but I’ve always been fascinated by it. Anyone know where to find more recent data? (yes, I know the source says “Moody’s”)
Death Odds, 1845-2006
31 May 2009A great animated chart showing the likelihood of dying at different ages over the years. I would think demographic data like this would be ripe for interesting visualizations. Nice job understandinguncertainty.org!
Two earlier posts/versions (one & two) don’t go back as far, but include the detailed explanation and some additional breakdown by risk factors.
ps – this data is for the UK.
pps – the same site conducts a similar analysis of Charles Minard’s famous infographic of Napolean’s 1812 campaign (odds of dying as the campaign goes on), as well as a cool animated bubble heat map of the size and location of the army:
US Auto Market Share 1980-2008
31 May 2009roll-overs show the ten-year data trends. What surprised me was how GM has taken the bulk of the loss, with Chrysler actually holding pretty steady.
Federal Home Loan Bank Investments
In: Finance Housing US Economy
29 May 2009Worrisome analysis from SubsidyScope:
“The Federal Home Loan Banks, or FHLBs, may be the biggest financial players you’ve never heard of. Collectively, they hold $1.3 trillion in assets and are the largest U.S. borrower after the federal government.
A Subsidyscope review of the FHLBs’ financial statements has found that several of the banks are carrying substantial “unrealized losses” on their investments in mortgage-backed securities. [.]
What’s potentially worrisome is the sheer size of the losses. For the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, they are substantially larger than the capital the bank holds to protect itself against such declines.”
SubsidyScope Bailout Visualizations
29 May 2009Created by the Pew Charitable Trusts, SubsidyScope.com has some interesting visualizations, and looks to be a great resource for tracking these issues going forward. The blog on the front page is great as well.
Tarp disbursements by recipient or date, and the transaction table at the bottom keeps up with your mouse clicks:
Estimates of the subsidy rates (also a good read on how TARP works):
Value of TARP government warrants:
Finally, Bank Failures and the FDIC Fund Balance:
Visual Guide to the Federal Reserve
29 May 2009
The FT 500
In: Finance Global Economy Interactive Source: FT Stock Market US Economy
29 May 2009Interactive table of top 500 companies in the world (and for US/EU/UK/Japan) by market cap. You can sort any column, filter by sector, and drill down each company to see stats and historical rankings.
The Problems Haven’t Gone Away
29 May 2009
Well, the banks are close to being recapitalized, so that brings us roughly back to where we started (minus 5 million jobs and $11 trillion in wealth). But while that is a necessary condition for recovery, many of the other original problems (excessive household debt, for example) just keep chugging along.
“About 5.4 million of the country’s 45 million home loans were delinquent or in some stage of the foreclosure process in the first three months of the year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. [.] The figures released Thursday suggested that prime fixed-rate loans were supplanting risky subprime loans and rising adjustable-rate mortgages as the force behind the foreclosure crisis. In the first quarter, a seasonally adjusted 6.06 percent of all prime loans were delinquent.” (WSJ)
Rich or Poor?
27 May 2009I think a lot of us take for granted how good we have it. Here’s a nice look at how “rich” you are, by Catherine Mulbrandon at visualizingeconomics.com. It’s been around for a while (uses 2000 data), but I just found her website this week.
Economic Calendars
In: Reference
27 May 2009Want to know what the mainstream media (MSM) will be talking about this week? Take a look at calendars of economic data releases. In addition to showing the schedule of releases, many show predictions, consensus forecasts, past values, and color code the over/unders. They are available at a number of places. here are a few:
FXStreet (my favorite: interactive drill-downs to historical data; nifty filters)
Credit Crisis Indicators
In: Global Economy Reference Source: NYT Updated regularly US Economy
27 May 2009The NYT maintains a tool showing the latest updates for five credit market indicators (3mo Treasuries, Libor, Ted spread, 30-day commercial paper, and high yield bond yields). Sometimes I just want a quick look at the latest numbers.
Note: Similarly, their Markets page and Economy pages provide clean up-to-date presentations on a variety of indicators.
Case-Shiller (mar 09 data)
27 May 2009The NYT has updated one of my favorite interactive presentations of Case-Shiller’s 20 city housing index. It shows how each cities’ performance versus the national index (the light grey bars in the background).
Pension Losses
27 May 2009Buried in a lot of videos and audio analysis on this FT tool are some very interesting charts showing how much damage has been done to pension systems around the world (and not just in the past year).
US Unemployment Map
27 May 2009Data from Dec 07- Apr 09. There isn’t too much interesting here, unless you want to compare states using the chart on the right.
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