Earn What You Spend

Google just released an excellent way to analyze the unemployment data from the BLS:
Source: Google
It allows you to quickly do comparisons of both states and cities, which is something I’ve previously been unable to do quickly.  It’s shows you just how frighteningly high the unemployment is in some regions. 
[Hat tip: Alex Tabarrok]

[Via Paul Kedrosky]
This is a pretty amazing visualization - I’m always a sucker for anything that makes data come alive.  Slate takes the past couple years of employment data from the Labor department and visualizes it in this heatmap.  Watching the country change from blue to red is rather frightening. 

Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the unemployment rate has now hit 8.5% -  so far in this recession the economy has shed over 5.1 million jobs.  We all have friends, family and colleagues who are affected by these job losses.  It’s an incredibly tough thing to watch. 
The standard saying is that [...]

Tonight at the New York Public Library I attended a discussion between award-winning columnist and author Thomas Friedman and Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman and one of the founders of Infosys Technologies, Ltd.  These are two immensely interesting and well-spoken men, so I jumped at the opportunity to hear them live.
The discussion at first centered on well-known facts: the [...]

Stay close to your computer / tv screen this morning, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner is to start his briefing this morning at 8:45 EST on his plan to attack the current economic crisis.  In today’s Wall Street Journal, Geithner begins to give out some of the details of this much-anticipated plan. 
What I find [...]

[via Option ARMageddon]  This is truly an astounding number.  I didn’t know this, but the government updates the total outstanding debt for the United States here every day. 
Option ARMageddon has the graph: