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24 Oct 2009

October update of one of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. If you normally find this stuff confusing you should check it out — click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.

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2008 Executive Compensation

In: Bailout Finance Interactive Source: USA Today US Economy

23 Oct 2009

Interactive table. Select an industry, sort by any column.

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Credit Card Transactions

In: Finance

22 Oct 2009

What happens behind the scenes. by designer Chris Edwards

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BBC G20

In: Bailout Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Politics US Economy

19 Oct 2009

A bit dated as these were prepared in the lead up to the Pittsburgh summit a few weeks ago. Worth passing on nonetheless.

A checklist of the G20’s April London Summit pledges and whether they’ve been fulfilled. Included some nice graphics on IMF and tax reforms.

G20 Stimulus and Fiscal Deficit map. Use the slider to look at the changes 2007-2010. Mouse over a country to view popup data details.

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EU: Lending Down

In: Finance Global Economy Housing

18 Oct 2009

We’ve seen this data before for the United States. The below chart confirms the same for the EU: banks are not lending.

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Blame the Smart People?

In: Bailout Commentary Finance Humor Source: WSJ US Economy

18 Oct 2009

A WSJ op-ed that presents a convincing argument that we can’t blame stupid people for the financial crisis (though they certainly helped).

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Global Banking Brands

In: Finance Global Economy

16 Oct 2009

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Carry Trade

In: Finance Global Economy Source: FT

16 Oct 2009

The FT has an annotated animation explaining currency carry trade and it’s effects on markets.

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Currency Trends

In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Interactive Source: FT US Economy

13 Oct 2009

The FT takes a graphic look at a number of currency trends (dollar/euro, carry trade, commodity currencies, the renminbi, and a trade weighted exchange index). [the links on the below images all go to the same interactive tool]

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Follow the Money

In: Bailout Finance Global Economy

5 Oct 2009

The BBC has a slideshow of some “perspective” statistics on the global bailout.

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Investment Banking (updated)

In: Bailout Finance Source: FT

5 Oct 2009

Global banking statistics, through Q309.

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NYT Economic Indicators

In: Employment Finance Housing Reference Source: NYT US Economy

2 Oct 2009

The NYT has a nice tiny tool that provides the most recent data for 25 economic indicators (housing, employment, production, confidence, etc). It appears at the top of their “Economy” page, and an ugly version of the flash tool can be viewed directly here.

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FDI Flows

In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Maps

2 Oct 2009

A map of foreign direct investment inflows, in percent of GDP. Somewhat oddly, you have to click on the different ratio ranges at the bottom to color the relevant countries – at a minimum, they should have included the option to see the whole map (all ranges) colored at once.

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No Loans for You

In: Bailout Finance Source: NYT

28 Sep 2009

A chart from the NYT illustrating lending has not begun to recover much at all. Related article.

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Fun With [Banking] Data

In: Employment Finance Graphic Design (general) Reference US Economy

22 Sep 2009

The St. Louis Federal Reserve has an excellent graphing tool called Fred Graph. You can view a variety of economic (not just banking) data over any time period, add/delete series at will, and download the raw data. Below is an example of commercial, consumer, and real estate loans (1940-today); and the same data zoomed in on 2007-today (note the total absence of increased lending). To start, pick a data series from the Fred Page then click on the graph itself to bring up more design options.