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Payback Time for Subprime

6 Nov 2013

Settlement and fines for mortgage abuses are starting to add up to real money. Of course, as Matt Taibbi points out, this is still just a drop in the proverbial bucket compared to the related profits and scale of activities that took place.

(disclaimer: clever post title pilfered from the Economist)

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Sharing Bank Spoils

In: Bailout Finance Source: FT

11 Jun 2012

You’ll need an FT.com subscription to see it, but they have a nice presentation of where bank “spoils” (profits+staff pay) has been going to. Below are Bank of America and Citigroup.

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European Debt

In: Bailout Finance Global Economy

8 Feb 2012

A billion here, a billion there – soon you’re talking about real money.

News reports often focus on debt to gdp ratios, but it’s powerful to actually show the magnitudes of each, and compare the amounts already committed to what remains to be financed, as is done here by Spiegel:

A rawer way of looking at the debt of all of the PIIGS, in piles of euros:

This version shows who loaned Greece the money:

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European Response to Crisis

In: Bailout Finance Global Economy Politics

1 Feb 2012

Almost makes it look like they’ve done a lot:

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Charting the Euro Zone Crisis

In: Bailout Finance Global Economy Politics Source: WSJ

20 Dec 2011

A series of excellent annotated charts on the main indicators of the European crisis.

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Eurozone Debt Crisis Dashboard

In: Bailout Employment Finance Global Economy Interactive

18 Nov 2011

Some 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.

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What Wall Street Protesters are Angry About – in Charts

In: Bailout Employment Finance Politics Stock Market US Economy

14 Oct 2011

A 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.

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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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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.