US Economy Archive:
Wall Street Bonuses
In: Bailout Finance Source: Economist Stock Market US Economy
25 Feb 2010Thanks to Stephen Dobson for the heads up.
Economic Indicators Dashboard (Feb 10 ver)
23 Feb 2010One of my favorite summaries of economic indicators. Click on any of the “historical details” to see what each indicator means and why it’s important.
Recession Trickle-Down
22 Feb 2010
State Revenue
In: Politics US Economy
19 Feb 2010Where states get their money from. An interesting distribution. (via)
Job Losses
17 Feb 2010A slightly politicized look. (via FlowingData)
Obama’s Bank Reform Plan
In: Bailout Finance Politics Source: FT Stock Market US Economy
9 Feb 2010The FT has an audio annotated slideshow explaining the proposal.
(note, to get around FT’s registration try this link)
Volunteers in America
5 Feb 2010Good data on who volunteered where in 2009. I’ll spare you my usual critique of Good’s visualization choices.
Tax Calculator
5 Feb 2010A fun toy for examining historic US tax rates and government expenditure. You put in your income and it graphs the amount of taxes you pay and breaks down what the government spent it on. As usual on this type of stuff, there are pages and pages of comments arguing about the methodology and what it all means. (via).
and in honor of those tax arguments:
(originally from here)
Faulty Employment Statistics
In: Employment US Economy
4 Feb 2010Poor assumptions in the how the BLS calculates unemployment will lead to a downward adjustment of 824,000 on Friday – read the technical explanation. (via The Big Picture).
One more. This time with feeling! Ok, maybe not. But this one has some great historical perspectives: Deficits, spending by agency, revenue, etc (and you can click on the area charts to drill down). Great work by the Washington Post!
Deficits (all the charts below go to the same link – click on the tabs at the top to go through them on the WP site).
Spending by agency:
Revenue:
The budget:
More Obama Budget
1 Feb 2010Interactive treemap from the NYT – you can zoom/drill into the details, “hide” mandatory spending, and rollovers popup the 2010-11 values and change. Thanks to Andrea Noble for the heads up!
Obama 2011 Budget
1 Feb 2010Some charts summarizing the budget proposal.
Obama’s Budget
In: Politics US Economy
1 Feb 20102011 vs 2009 (George Bush’s last one). They also have the dataset of spending by department since 1962.
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19 Feb 2010I don’t post many editorials, but I love Matt Taibbi’s gonzo journalism style and his insights about cracks in the financial system.