Was my recession bigger than your recession?
Several blogs have been trying to come to terms with size of US job losses relative to losses after the recessions of 1990 and 2001. The graph on the left, from Time magazine, shows losses from the current recession in green. (The figures were from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) The graph below - from [...]
The world’s bailouts: in piles of £10 notes
How far would the world’s various bailout packages stretch if you piled the amounts in £10 notes and then laid them flat on the earth’s surface? Quite a way, it turns out. (We asked the Bank of England for the heights of ‘banknote bundles’, then we did some maths,’ then set Google Earth to work.)
The [...]
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