In a prescient 1989 article entitled How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street and the World Economy, author Michael Lewis looked at historical earthquakes to project the economic impact of a (at the time) hypothetical massive Tokyo earthquake. It’s a bit hard to read in this scanned version from […]
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) tracks 30 large well known American companies. Clusterstock released a chart showing how the Dow reacted Wednesday to nuclear headlines – details on each headline here: Source: “Chart of the Day: The Dow Makes Huge Swings on Every Fukushima Headline” Gregory White. Business Insider, 3/16/11. https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-dow-march-16-2011-3
Visa (NYSE: V) announced a new service today that allows someone who holds a Visa account to receive and send funds to any other Visa account holder. From the press release: Bank customers of participating financial institutions will have the option to select a Visa account as the destination for […]
Barry Ritholtz posted this great infographic showing the month to month price changes in the price of houses using the cities that comprise the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Source: “Housing Heat Map” Barry Ritholtz, 3/9/11. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/housing-heat-map/
At Business Insider, Joe Weisenthal published an remarkable graphic originally from Stifel Nicolaus. It shows equities and commodities over the last 140 years and presents a strong bullish signal for equities – at least by this measure: Source: “A Big, Beautiful, and Bullish 140-Year Look at Equities Vs. Commodities” Joe […]
Just had to have that bleeding edge PowerBook G3 in 1997? Well, if you had plunked down the $5,700 it ran you on Apple stock instead of the Apple laptop (with its massive 5GB hard drive), that stock would be worth over $330,000 today. Kyle Conroy put together this chart […]
Zack Miller is the Managing Director of Lighthouse Capital Ltd., a boutique investment firm servicing high-net-worth investors from around the world and the author of the book Tradestreaming, which documents how investors are using new technologies to assist their investing. In this post, he highlights five companies developing new services that […]
From Big Think, Prof. Lionel Jensen of Notre Dame addresses the claim that Chinese currency manipulation is at the heart of America’s fiscal woes:
The Atlantic has a great interactive infographic that groups America into twelve different “states” based on economic similarities among different counties. Click through to view it: Source: “Map: The 12 States of America” The Atlantic, 3/8/11. http://www.theatlantic.com/misc/the-12-states-of-america/
VisualizingEconomics has a great chart today, showing this recession’s effect on inflation-adjusted GDP per capita for Americans, versus its long (138 year!) trend line. Click for larger version: Source: “Long-term real growth in US GDP per capita 1871-2009” Catherine. VisualizingEconomics, 3/8/11. http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2011/03/08/long-term-real-growth-in-us-gdp-per-capita-1871-2009/
A fascinating report today from CNBC’s Kate Kelly on how farmers in the Midwest are using Twitter to update each other about crops: Once a convenient outlet for boredom on the tractor, tweeting with fellow farmers has become a way for the participants in a far-flung and isolating business to […]