OECD Direct Fiscal Costs of 2008 Financial Crisis

This chart shows the direct fiscal costs for the financial crisis in OECD countries between 2007 and 2009. Especially Ireland and also Iceland stand out as having relatively high costs in those years relating to the crisis. Notably the Netherlands is third and USA only comes in on the eight spot.

Why the U.S. Job Market Did Not Recover

This graph shows the employment to population ratio. In other words it shows the percentage of the population the is working. In collapsed during the crisis and didn't recover at all yet.

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Bailout & Stimulus In The World During The Financial Crisis

This infograph shows the sizes of the bailouts and the stimulus (up until the end of 2009) in the world. The grey circles picture the size of the economy of the country in 2008 in dollars. Inside the circle the red part shows the bailout costs as a percentage of GDP and the blue part shows the stimulus amounts as a percentage of GDP.

The Big Picture

Banks Under Pressure

This chart shows that Credit Default Swaps (financial security that insures against default of the underlying subject: in this case banks) have risen dramatically in August. This means that the market perceives the risk of these banks to default has increased. According to this article by the Telegraph these credit default rates are even higher than in the credit crisis of 2008.

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