This blogbook offers, with the aid of various charts, graphs, and tables, a pictorial guide to the 2008 financial crisis.
10/14/08
Profits of Financial Firms
The profits of financial firms, as this chart from Kevin Philip's Bad Money shows, shot up to 40% of total corporate profits over the last two decades, far outpacing manufacturing. The chart goes to 2004, a fact which malign technological forces are preventing me from displaying properly.
To see the presentation in order, use either the Labels below for each chapter or the Table of Contents for individual entries.
The initial presentation was made in October 2008 and was last updated in January 2009, though I recently substantially expanded the list of sources. Lately, I have been working on a blogbook called Energy Predicament.
My dubious record for 2008 is reviewed here, by some miscreants.
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Kudos
A good number of my charts first appeared at Contrary Investor. Though oriented toward investors, CI offers a superb analysis of the real economy and its relationship to the financial system. It is an indispensable source not only for individuals but also for any good library. So subscribe, dammit.