Pick n Mix

In my research for my last couple of post I came across a number of things. So this post is just like a big scrap book of things I found interesting or useful.


First is this short video from It's a wonderful life shows an example of a bank run

I also found a video where Milton Friedman talks about the Great Depression

A lot of this is about the Great Depression, the following link is a graph of the Dow Jones industrial average between 1925 and 1933 with quotes many people said over the course of the crisis, including Milton Keynes and Irving Fisher.

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_01/seymour062001.html

The Financial Times, have created a graphic showing the different plans for reforms in the financial system in the wake of the most recent crash. (You may need to sign up to the Financial Times to view this, but it is free =D )

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f58d854e-82db-11df-b7ad-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1o0NKhUPP

This is an interactive graph that allows you to see what various countries have done to their interest rates since May 2004 to the present day.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704448304575195840951492422.html

This next two links were quite useful in my last couple of posts. The first is a time line of the crisis along with The Fed policy actions and the other market actions and the second one is the international response

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/global_economy/Crisis_Timeline.pdf

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/global_economy/IRCTimelinePublic.pdf

There was also a couple of new blogs I found;

http://www.swifteconomics.com/

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com
And an interesting post

http://www.swifteconomics.com/2009/08/22/all-fiat-currencies-fail/

This next one has to be my favourite, it is just full of charts of pretty much everything;

http://chartporn.org/

 I also did some more baking

Maybe completing this blog will inspire me to start a cooking one!!