A Visual History of the Federal Reserve System, 1914 -2009
Vizualise the Fed's balance sheet from founding to the present, as well as interest rates, reserve requirements, recessions, chairmen, US presidents, major events, and more.
Here at the end of the month, the world looks fairly similar to the way it looked a month ago just with its market participants slightly more exhausted.
"The media all over the world, but especially in France, are presenting the crisis as a financial one, as if the governments and the politicians have no responsibility. This crisis is in fact very typical of a communist system arriving at the end of its ability to borrow and make the productive system service the debt it has accumulated, simply because the productive sector is going bust." GaveKal Five Corners, Volume 12, Issue 24, Monday, December 12, 2011 , Anatole Kaletsky, Charles Gave, Francois Chauchat
Over 106 stocks have been a member of the Dow at some point or another.
This chart marks the span of time that each one of these stocks spent in the Dow, and shows the rise and fall of the index over this time frame. Financial Graph & Art , John Paul Koning
European leaders have had to accept the obvious and agree to move towards greater fiscal integration.
(...) Unfortunately it is also the guarantee of a very difficult 2012 in Europe in terms of growth. Banque Syz & Co. , 14 December 2011
Here at the end of the month, the world looks fairly similar to the way it looked a month ago just with its market participants slightly more exhausted. Barclays Capital Fund Solutions , December 2011
The Visual History of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-2010 portrays the Fed's balance sheet from founding to the present, as well as interest rates, reserve requirements, recessions, chairmen, US presidents, major events, and more. This is the first time this data has ever been compiled and portrayed in a single graphical display. Financial Graph & Art , John Paul Koning
Over 106 stocks have been a member of the Dow at some point or another.
This chart marks the span of time that each one of these stocks spent in the Dow, and shows the rise and fall of the index over this time frame. Financial Graph & Art , John Paul Koning
Plus ça change... From Chambers Encyclopaedia, "A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People", Volume 5, 1868. Quoted in Private Eye (5 August 2011).
""You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy? Kind of wrong.” Yet, with the (projected) birth today of the world’s 7 billionth occupant, there’s no shortage of media hand-wringing about the dim prospects of our world from here." Forbes, 31/10/2011 , Lara Hoffmans
