Credit Writedowns » finance charts http://www.creditwritedowns.com Finance, Economics and Markets Wed, 23 May 2012 16:15:53 +0000 en hourly 1 Chart of the day: The Grexit decision tree http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-day-grexit-decision-tree.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-day-grexit-decision-tree.html#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 15:00:19 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44784 The Financial Times has gone through the very useful exercise of creating a decision tree on what a Greek exit from the euro zone entails. I think the Europeans are now actively preparing for a Grexit because to not do so would be folly. But that doesn't mean that they want Greece to be forced out. Much of what we hear for public consumption is real. But much of it is also political posturing to improve negotiating positions. This decision tree can be helpful in figuring out what's real and what's just bluff

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-day-grexit-decision-tree.html/feed/ 1 US housing starts up 40% in last year but still half of 50-year average http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/us-housing-starts-up-40-in-last-year-but-still-half-of-50-year-average.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/us-housing-starts-up-40-in-last-year-but-still-half-of-50-year-average.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 12:56:54 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44646 Housing starts in the US were up today. The Wall Street Journal writes that number came in at 717,000, up from a low of 478,000 in April

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Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/us-housing-starts-up-40-in-last-year-but-still-half-of-50-year-average.html/feed/ 0 Another chart of the day: Greek bank deposits collapse http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/greek-bank-deposits-collapse.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/greek-bank-deposits-collapse.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 11:16:24 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44635 The chart below via Reuters' Scott Barber is what an economic depression looks like. It covers Greek bank deposits from 1998 to present

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Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/greek-bank-deposits-collapse.html/feed/ 1 Chart of the day: The German-Spanish 10 Year Spread is at an all time high http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/german-spanish-10-year-spread-all-time-high.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/german-spanish-10-year-spread-all-time-high.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 10:53:38 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44628 Spanish bond yields are spiking with no obvious reason to believe they will come down anytime soon. That puts the Spanish-German 10-year spread at an all time high

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/german-spanish-10-year-spread-all-time-high.html/feed/ 0 Chart of the Day: Euro zone GDP by country http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-euro-zone-gdp-by-country.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-euro-zone-gdp-by-country.html#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 13:24:31 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44579 This chart was attached to a very good front page article in today's Wall Street Journal by Marcus Walker on How a Radical Greek Rescue Plan Fell Short. The article gives a blow-by-blow account on how the Greek crisis has unfolded and a detailed view on where each of the Greek and European leaders stood on various issues involved in Greece's debt restructuring. The chart itself demonstrates the enormous gulf between the size of the German economy and other economies in Europe, giving some sense of why the Germans (and the French) have come to dominate European policy discussions

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-euro-zone-gdp-by-country.html/feed/ 1 Chart of the day: US Real Personal Income Growth http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-us-real-personal-income-growth.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-us-real-personal-income-growth.html#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 13:34:17 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44542 The ECRI released the following chart on the year-over-year growth in US real personal income. The takeaway here is that personal income growth is seriously flagging going into the fiscal cliff which promises to turn income growth decidedly to income contraction

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-us-real-personal-income-growth.html/feed/ 2 Chart of the Day: Australian Credit Growth Has Collapsed http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-australian-credit-growth-has-collapsed.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-australian-credit-growth-has-collapsed.html#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 17:00:20 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44417 If you look at the rate of growth in credit, it tells you something. When it hits an inflection point i.e. when credit growth peaks and begins to decelerate, investors should take it as a harbinger of declining GDP and a signal to shift assets toward risk-off trades. Right now, Australia is demonstrating some serious softness in credit growth as the chart below attests

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Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-australian-credit-growth-has-collapsed.html/feed/ 12 Chart of the day: US Manufacturing Employment, 1960-2012 http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-us-manufacturing-unemployment-1960-2012.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-us-manufacturing-unemployment-1960-2012.html#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 14:00:36 +0000 Global Macro Monitor http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44358 Note the peak in manufacturing jobs in June 1977, which represented 22 percent of all nonfarm payrolls, then, to fall to less than 9 percent of total employment today. It’s too earlier to claim victory with the current recovery in the manufacturing sector, but it is the the first positive slope since mid-1990′s

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Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/05/chart-of-the-day-us-manufacturing-unemployment-1960-2012.html/feed/ 0 Chart of the Day: Eurozone retail sector’s sharp contraction http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/04/chart-of-the-day-eurozone-retail-sectors-sharp-contraction.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/04/chart-of-the-day-eurozone-retail-sectors-sharp-contraction.html#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:10:30 +0000 Sober Look http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44313 The Eurozone is experiencing a sharp contraction in the retail sector

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/04/chart-of-the-day-eurozone-retail-sectors-sharp-contraction.html/feed/ 1 Chart of the day: US jobs recovered since crisis began by industry http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/04/jobs-recovered-by-industry.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2012/04/jobs-recovered-by-industry.html#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:22:08 +0000 Global Macro Monitor http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=44212 Today we look at the jobs recovery by various industries

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