Finance Archive:

Lots of good analyses here. click on the tabs for differ datasets and presentations. Related article.

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Interactive list of each member country’s situation and priorities.

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I know this is a chart blog, but I love Michael Lewis’ writing. Here’s a great article on how Iceland got in trouble.

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Link: Lewis’s Dec 2008 article on the demise of Wall Street.

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From Wallstats via Mint.

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Interactive chart explaining fall of RBS.

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Net capital flows to emerging markets are set to drop to $165.3bn this year, down from $928.6bn in 2007, according to the Institute of International Finance. IMF loans are shown on the second tab.

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This is a slightly complicated interactive way of viewing 5 different indicators across different recessions periods. It takes a minute to figure out how to work it, but it’s nifty once you do.

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A nice interactive map from the FT:

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Ok, someone obviously spent a lot of time designing this one, and it is very cool.
You select a sector (~30 are available) and the bubble chart shows how companies performed versus the short and long-term S&P 500. The bubble size shows market cap. You can easily change change the timeframe of the comparison (day, week, month, quarter, year) and scales, and drill down through company data.

example:

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explanation:

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US FED:

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BOE and ECB:

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again, from http://www.ritholtz.com/blog