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Close your eyes. Visualise a great depression.

March 16, 2009
Oh, right, so this is how it happened
Oh, right, so this is how it happened

The clever people at Flowing Data give us 27 visualisations of the financial crisis. This is oddly reminiscent of the post I put up here just a few weeks back from the great, and extremely clever, Jeff Frankel. Thing is, while a real mind on matters of international macroeconomics—and, it must be said, an entertainingly caustic critic of Bush-era fiscal profligacy—Frankel can't draw for toffee. These guys, on the other hand, can.