Last week’s discussion on the size of the bailout expenditures generated some interesting buzz. A few others picked up on the size, and created a few different ways to depict the amount of money involved.
These have been my favorites:
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Bailout Pie Chart
chart courtesy of voltagecreative
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Prior Bailouts as a % of US GDP
via mindtangle (note that this data is already old!)
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Global Bailouts per National GDP
chart courtesy of Portfolio
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via Agora Financial
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Previously:
Calculating the Total Bailout Costs (December 2008)
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/calculating-the-total-bailout-costs/
Big Bailouts, Bigger Bucks (November 2008)
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/big-bailouts-bigger-bucks/
What's been said:
Discussions found on the web: