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The Fall of GM - a visual guide

Posted on 05. Jan, 2009 by Jess.

Many aspects of this graphic can apply to the rest of the Big Three but I focused on GM since they are in the most dire position.  GM has many woes, the least of which is a shortfall of money, so why do people think that an infusion of cash will do anything but prolong [...]

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A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by Jess.

You may have seen this around.  It’s some client work I did for mint.com, originally posted here.  This financial crisis is quite difficult to pin down because there are many factors involved, chain reactions, and negligence abound.  So I created this primer to help people get their heads around it.  It is a loose flow [...]

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$700 Billion bailout… so who’s paying?

Posted on 25. Sep, 2008 by Jess.

So the Gov’ment is on a shopping spree.  Well like all post shopping hangovers, the bill can be quite sobering.  So here is a little graphic to explain just who is paying for this bailout and how much.

The data and forumlas used were crafted when I was doing research on the “Who pays?” section [...]

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