What a Toxic Asset looks like [Planet Money]

From Planet Money’s blog

I have been enjoying a series of podcasts by Plant Money’s team in which they bought toxic asset which has more than 2,000 mortgages. They paid $1,000 for a piece that used to be worth around $75,000.

Their interactive graphic shows how this asset was created with mortgages across the country, how many payments they have received from it, and how it has been losing value.

In the beginning Dec 2006, “Toxie” was a little sick

But by July 2010, “Toxie” was a almost dead…

Tagged as: Bar Chart, Choropleth Map, Interactive Graphic, Pie chart