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15 Sep 2011

Cheap 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.

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How Healthy is Your Bank?

In: Bailout Finance Interactive Source: Ritholtz US Economy

13 Sep 2011

From 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:

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Banks: Then and Now

In: Finance Interactive Source: FT

10 Sep 2011

Interactive 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.

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Fed Crisis Lending to Wall Street

In: Bailout Finance Interactive Source: Ritholtz US Economy

23 Aug 2011

Bloomberg 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:

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Paying Off Credit Card Debt

In: Culture Finance

15 Aug 2011

Catherine Mulbrandon visualizes how long it takes to pay off a new computer making the minimum payment versus $100/month.

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Sovereign Debt Ratings

In: Finance Global Economy Graphic Design (general) Maps

1 Aug 2011

I’m posting this more because it’s an example of a well designed ~~cartogram~~ map, more than because of the content. (via)

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Deficit has a Numerator and Denominator

In: Finance Politics US Economy

1 Aug 2011

Ok, 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.

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Debt Debt Debt Goose!

In: Finance Politics Source: NYT US Economy

29 Jul 2011

Four 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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How Much is That Again?

In: Finance Innovative Politics US Economy

28 Jul 2011

WTFnoway.com presents literal visualizations of how many Benjamins the US debt really amounts to.

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Dodd-Frank Implementation

In: Finance Politics Stock Market US Economy

22 Jul 2011

An interesting chart on different benchmarks that are required by the Bill. At closer inspection though, you realize all it does is describe the sections and count the requirements. It would have been nice if you could drill down and see the details of each of the colored lines, for example. The main impression remains, however: the Bill’s implementation is very complicated – which I suppose is in contrast to the wide agreement that it doesn’t actually solve any of our financial systems’ problems.