Statistics on the Economy

As we're starting to get tired of watching the vacillations of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (and thinking about who we can sue for whiplash), we may want to look at other economic indicators. The Reporting Statistics blog has a nice summary of statistical data sources for economic conditions in the United States. If nothing else, the list should help distract us for a while.

For those who feel up to it, information aesthetics has a really good list of visualizations of the credit crisis. If you mouseover the banks on this graph, you get a stark realization of how much they have shrunk in value.

One more for good measure: The largest point gains and losses in the stock market, and the largest percentage gains and losses. Sometimes it's helpful to add context.

If you have other data sources or visualizations that would be helpful, please let me know.