International Bank Exposure To Russia

In the last quarter of 2014 total bank exposure to Russian debt added up to 242 billion dollar. Banks in France, the United States and Italy were leading in exposure. Most money is lent out to the non-bank Russian private sector.

Reuters Jamie

Changing Top Manufacturing Countries (1980-2010)

The developing countries have made their way more and more in the top 10 of global manufacturing countries. While you might expect China on the first spot, the United States as being the world's biggest economy is still the largest manufacturing producer. Brazil has advanced up to the sixth place. India just entered the top 10 in 2010 and Russia especially made a big jump from place 12 in 2000 to 11 in 2010.

ZeroHedge

Most Expensive and Cheapest Cities Around the World

This graph from The Economist shows the cost of living for several cities around the world. New York was taken as a benchmark, for which the cost of living index is 100. As you can see Zurich, Tokyo and Oslo are the most expensive cities in the world. Notice that these three cities are all not in the European Union.

Mumbai and Karachi are among the cheapest cities around the world.

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Non-Financial Corporate Debt

You can see in the graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that Spain, France and the United Kingdom have the highest non-financial corporations debt of the selection countries. Again the emerging countries have the lowest debt. Non-financial corporation debt is a lot higher in Europe than in North America.

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Financial Sector Debt as a Percentage of GDP

You can see in this graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that the United Kingdom, Japan and France have the highest Financial Debt for the selected countries. As for household debt are the emerging countries the ones with the lowest financial debt. Also for financial debt the United Kingdom is the country with the highest amount, as is the case with the total debt (which you were able to see in this post.

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Household Debt as a Percentage of GDP (Developed and Emerging Countries)

You can see in the graph from The Economist (with data from Mckinsey) that the Anglo-Saxon countries have the highest household debt of selected countries. The emerging countries have the lowest household debt. As you were able to see in this post with total debt (government, household, financial and non-financial) Britain was also the country with the highest total debt.

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Most Important Elections of 2012

This graphs shows the most important elections of 2012. With in the first place not to forget the United States Presidential Elections (check here for an extensive road map, also with the primaries currently happening) on November 6th. Also globally important are the French presidential elections between mainly Sarkozy and Hollande on April 22nd and May 6th, the Russian presidential elections on March 4th and also the Chinese Party congress where a new leader will be selected in October.

Also check this election calender with all the elections dates and info:

http://www.electionguide.org/calendar.php

The Economist

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

Elderly/Population in 2007 and 2040

This chart shows the population aging as the elderly (aged 60 and over), as a percentage of the population in a country for 2007 and 2040. Japan and the Western European countries have the biggest aging problems and in the United States, United Kingdom and the BRIC countries have relatively less problems.

This graph shows the growth in total public benefits to the elders from 2007 to 2040 as a percentage of the countries' GDP. Spain, Brazil and the Netherlands see the highest increase in the costs of public benefits to the elderly.

CSIS

IMF World Growth Projections (WEO September)

This graph from Reuters shows the latest projections for economic growth in 2011 and 2012 in different continents. Almost all of the projections have been lowered since the forecast of June.

Reuters

Brazil: Softest BRIC

This graph from Reuters shows that Brazil is growing slower than other BRIC-countries (Russia, India, China), Mexio and Latin/Carribean countries.

Reuters

Huge Inforgraphic: The Working World

Among other things the following economic indicators are compared: Tax rates, Retirement Age, Vacation Days, Per capita income, Number of hours worked per week:

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Social Cast

Emerging Market Overheating Index

The Economist made a chart with the developing countries ranking them by the state of their economy. They used several indicators to identify whether the economy is overheating or not.

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Total Debt (Government, Business, Households & Banks) For Selected Countries

This post shows the total debt in selected countries. Total debt consists of Government, Non financial business, Households and Financial Institutions debt.

Source: GFMag

Infographic: Greece Debts are Europe's Problem

Source: Ritholtz

World Gold Holdings: The Countries with the biggets gold reserves

This post graphs the countries (and the IMF) with the biggest gold holdings by their central banks.

Source: Jim Rickars (World Gold Council)

World Population Forecasts

The Economist posted a great picture of world population forecasts.

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IMF WEO Spring 2011: Unemployment

IMF WEO Spring 2011: Unemployment (latest unemployment rate minus six-year average before the crisis)

Unemployment rate modified for the 'normal' unemployment rate, which gives cyclical unemployment.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/c1/fig1_19.pdf

AR: Argentina; AU: Australia; BR: Brazil; CA: Canada; CN: China; DE: Germany; EU: euro area; FR: France; GB: United Kingdom; ID: Indonesia; IT: Italy; JP: Japan; KR: Korea; MX: Mexico; RU: Russia; TR: Turkey; US: United States; ZA: South Africa.


Conclusion: the United States unemployment rate is relatively high.