This Great Graphic was tweeted by Phil Izzo and was taken from the Federal Reserve Board. It tracks the dissents at the Federal Reserve. What is striking are the numerous dissents at both ends of the time line, but...
This Great Graphic was tweeted by David Schawel. The data comes from Moody’s and appears to have been assembled by BofA analysts. It shows the collapse and recovery of US commercial real estate prices....
The ECB seems to think that cheap multi-year loans will get the European banks to resume their lending to small and medium businesses and households. However, European banks remain saddled with bad loans. European financial...
This is a fun Great Graphic. It is from Broadview Networks. It shows the largest company, by revenue, by each of the US states. The revenue figure is the latest available and the corporate headquarters is used for...
The headline of the Financial Times today reads „Paris rails against the dollar’s dominance.” It could have been written nearly any time in the past half century. After all it was a former French...
This Great Graphic, posted by Sumit Roy on Hard Assets, is based on data from the US Energy Information Administration. It shows the surge in US crude oil exports. They totaled more than 250k barrels a day in...
The euro area flash PMI is one of the most important economic reports in the monthly data cycle. These Great Graphics capture the importance of today’s report. The first two charts come from The Guardian’s...
The FOMC meeting is the week’s highlight even though policy outcome seems a foregone conclusion. It will continue with the tapering course that Bernanke put on the Fed on before he left. However, there are more...
The balance sheets of the Federal Reserve and ECB have been diverging for a couple of years. The Great Graphic from Pictet shows the evolution of the two balance sheets since the onset of the Great Financial...
The ECB is widely expected to cut key lending rates tomorrow. The most compelling argument for the central bank and many investors stems from the persistence of low inflation and the threat of deflation. This seems...