The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2009 contains some interesting risk charts. Full report. Graphics brief. Press release.
Economist article on the 2009 Freedom in the World report.
US debt and net worth:
And a big hat tip to Econompicdata, where I steal so many of these charts from.
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