Via DataDriven, comes this interesting animation of the historical state unemployment data:
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Dorling Cartogram of US Unemployment, 1980 – 2009 from Alex Kerin on Vimeo.
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"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher
Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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June 9th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Barry that chart is eye candy. Very nice. My question regarding employment is do you think the
BP spill will have an net increase or decrease in employment. Is the BP spill the Black Swan of job creation?
June 9th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
That animation should have jack-in-the-box music for a soundtrack, with the 2008 frame coinciding with the “POP goes the weasel!” ending.
June 10th, 2010 at 6:07 am
This is a great animation indeed. It is good to have access to such an easy and attractive way to look at facts, that sometimes are not that positive like in this case, especially when we are talking about unemployement and the way in which the situation got worse over the years. I agree with @NolansDad, this is eye candy, but still very effective and useful. And I’d like to thank you for sharing it.