Archive for the 'Debt' Category

Paying Down the National Debt via YouTube

Published on October 27, 2009 in Debt, Federal Budget, United States and Video. 6 Comments

Homemade video trying to show why it is not a problem that China owns part of the U.S. government’s debt. Scroll 3 minutes into the video and you can see how he used low-tech paper to explain what would happen if we pay down the debt. No fancy graphics needed.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Five indicators for Debt in the U.S. (Numbrary)

Published on February 8, 2009 in Debt and United States. 2 Comments

From Numbrary. This site provides simple graphs for many different economic data sets and groups them by subject. The example below should the data for US Debt. Also allows users to upload data.

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Unemployment magnifying glass

[tags]United States, Debt[/tags]

Popularity: 2% [?]

US Economy: 1920-2008 (Good Magazine)

Published on November 16, 2008 in Area Graph, Debt, GDP and United States. 4 Comments

Good Magazine in collaboration with Nigel Holmes created this historical survey of the US economy. The graph shows the GDP (grey) and the National Debt: real dollars (solid red line) and actual dollars (dotted red line)

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US Economy magnifying glass

[tags]United States, GDP, National Debt[/tags]

Popularity: 8% [?]

Federal Deficit Video

Published on September 10, 2008 in Bar Chart, Debt, Federal Budget, United States and Video. 2 Comments

A clip from a movie called I.O.U.S.A. Not often you see a data visualization in movie.

Popularity: 2% [?]

US Subprime Loans by State (January 2008)

Published on June 11, 2008 in Choropleth Map, Debt, Federal Reserve, Interactive Graphic and United States. 2 Comments

I found this interactive graphic on a site called Many Eyes displaying data about subprime loans by state. Click on the thumbnail to load the graph.

6/29/2008 I had to remove the interactive graph from my site because it was crashing the site search.

Popularity: 4% [?]

Visualizing credit card debt

Published on March 16, 2006 in Debt. Closed

John Maeda’s Credit Card Debt Calculator, by entering your credit card debt you create a table showing the time/# of payments it takes to pay it off.

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Popularity: 2% [?]