Le monde produced an interesting chart showing the Greek Debt comapared to others debts or revenues. It’s strange that the European stability fund has to be twice the Greek debt.  L’aide à la Grèce comparée à d’autres grandes dépenses dans le monde – LeMonde.fr via kwout

Full description after the jump. JP Morgan explains the euro crisis with lego | Felix Salmon via kwout JP Morgan explains the euro crisis with lego | Felix Salmon undefined

The Thomson Reuters Blog  Graphic of the day published a summary of the credit ratings for US, Japan and main European countries published by the 3 rating agencies: S&P, Moody’s and Fitch.

Time Magazine compiled a list of the 25 Best Financial Blogs. It’s a good reading list. Full List – The 25 Best Financial Blogs – TIME via kwout

In a  podcast published a few weeks ago, NPR Moneys interviewed Niall Ferguson (author of The Ascent of Money,).  I summarized below some of the key ideas highlighted in the discussion: Bank assets. Most of those assets are banks loans. It’s the money banks lent to their clients.  This means bank customers’ liabilities. Bank assets [...]

The following interactive graphics on FT.com gives an interesting view of the weight of Bank/Finance in main European countries. This page highlights some special situation. For instance in Iceland, the total 2007 asset of the main Bank (Kaupthing) is equal to 623 % of the GDP of the country.    FT.com / Video & Audio [...]

The presentation below from Google docs explains the way Subprime worked. This is a rather complex system. But all the system bears on a very simple assumption: House prices should always increase. Of course it couldn’t work for ever. Subprime Explained – Google Documents  

The New York Times made a graph that shows the impact of school networking in the world of Wall Street: This graph made me also discover Oliver Sarkozy (brother of actual french president) among the banker who will count tomorrow