Visualizing Economics » Debt

Paying Down the National Debt via YouTube

Catherine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:32:01 +0000

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.

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

Catherine — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:00:00 +0000

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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[tags]United States, Debt[/tags]

US Economy: 1920-2008 (Good Magazine)

Catherine — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:00:06 +0000

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

Federal Deficit Video

Catherine — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:15:51 +0000

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

US Subprime Loans by State (January 2008)

Catherine — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:13:02 +0000

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.

Visualizing credit card debt

Catherine — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:44:44 +0000

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.