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Greek Crisis Videographics
23 Nov 2011This jumps around a little too much for my taste – but it is a good example of using simple facts to put things in perspective.
Here’s a slightly more in depth, much more tongue-in-cheek version (from two years ago):
Finally, an even more tongue in cheek SNL skit about which god is in charge of Greek finance:
Economic Indicators Dashboard
In: Employment Finance Housing Interactive Stock Market US Economy
22 Nov 2011Updated for November: one of my favorite economic dashboards. It highlights major macro indicators, what direction they are trending, and what the typical ranges are. It also lets you drill down to explanations of why you should care, and historical values.
Eurozone Debt Crisis Dashboard
18 Nov 2011Some very well organized statistics on the Eurozone debt crisis, aggregated from the IMF, OECD, Eurostat, and the World Bank. It includes data on EFSF commitments, debt, SGP criteria, employment, trade, pensions, and mortgages. There are multiple dashboards, each with multiple tabs – so take the time to explore a bit. I particularly like the little sparklines – which I think do a great job of quickly illustrating trends, and don’t get used often enough.
Guide to the Euro Crisis
24 Oct 2011A well annotated graphic from the NYT. Over at Visual Journalism, they point out the design differences between the print and online versions of this graphic.
online version:
10 Essential Fiscal Charts
14 Oct 201110 beautiful charts from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Fiscal Analysis Initiative, examining the United States Debt and the challenges facing Congress’ Super Committee.
What Wall Street Protesters are Angry About – in Charts
In: Bailout Employment Finance Politics Stock Market US Economy
14 Oct 2011A series of 30+ charts on unemployment, wages, corporate profits, income inequality, debt, taxes, and bailouts from the Business Insider. It’s actually quite an accurate compendium, and the narrative annotation spices up what are otherwise pretty dry charts from the St. Louis Fed (note: if you’ve never used the FRED data/graphing system, you should really go play with it – they even have an APP now). I particularly like the sequence where they illustrate that banks are borrowing money from the FED at basically zero interest rates, and using it to buy treasuries. Hilarious.
US State Budget Gaps
In: Finance Interactive Internet/tech Politics Source: FT US Economy
27 Sep 2011What is shocking to me is that there are 12 states with no shortfall.
Note: Some Financial Times features require a subscription.
Capital Inflows
In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: WSJ
15 Sep 2011Cheap money and slow growth in the advanced countries has led to large capital flows to emerging market countries, as this interactive tool from the WSJ shows. If you mouse over each country you can view countries’ policy responses. I really like these map/graph combo designs – the two go very well together.
How Healthy is Your Bank?
13 Sep 2011From MSNBC and the American University: Identify your bank (or credit union) by name or location, then see how many non-performing loans and other troubled assets it has:
of related interest is this 2010 chart that Barry Ritholtz recently noted:
Banks: Then and Now
10 Sep 2011Interactive comparison of bank market capitalization, income, and employees. The data are interesting, but the color selection could use more contrast, and the representation of negative values for net income is just bizarre.
Note: some FT features require a subscription.
Fed Crisis Lending to Wall Street
23 Aug 2011Bloomberg compiled some stunning new data on Fed loans to Wall Street banks during the crisis based across multiple programs (Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, Commercial Paper Funding Facility, discount window, PDCF, TAF, Term Securities Lending Facility and single-tranche open market operations). (related article; via The Big Picture)
I wish I could borrow from the Fed at <2% using junk bonds as collateral.
You get the below charts by selecting multiple banks to compare them:
Paying Off Credit Card Debt
15 Aug 2011Catherine Mulbrandon visualizes how long it takes to pay off a new computer making the minimum payment versus $100/month.
Sovereign Debt Ratings
1 Aug 2011I’m posting this more because it’s an example of a well designed cartogram map, more than because of the content. (via)
Deficit has a Numerator and Denominator
1 Aug 2011Ok, I’m pretty bored with the debt graphics, but Barry Ritholtz today had a few that illustrate the problem quite well.
This one makes clear our deficit is as much a result of falling revenue as it is of rising spending:
The same numbers in percent of GDP make sense when you take the recession shading into account:
I highly recommend you read the article and discussion over there.
Debt Debt Debt Goose!
29 Jul 2011Four perfect graphs from the NYT (as usual) putting the debt crisis into perspective.
Thanks to Kanal Eliezer for sending in the link!
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