An update of my Nominal vs Real 3-Month Interest Rate graph through 2010.
Data for 3-Month Treasury Bill: Secondary Market Rate (TB3MS) and CPI-U (CPIAUCNS) from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Recessions dates can be found at NBER
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From a NY Times article on Credit Swaps from February 2008. It is worth reading for its primer on credit swaps and how it predicts the events of the current credit crisis.
[tags]Credit Swaps[/tags]
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Screenshot from Dynamic Maps of Nonprime Mortgage Conditions in the United States New York Federal Reserve showing six month change in foreclosures: from March – August 2008.
Red – Conditions have worsened
Green – Conditions have improved
Yellow – No change (within 0.05%)
[tags]United States, Foreclosures[/tags]
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I plotted the historical spread between Effective Fed Funds rate and US 3-Month T-bills back to 1956 using the weekly average. This a companion graph to Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: September 2008
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Data from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
[tags]United States, Interest Rate, Fed Funds[/tags]
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Visualizing Economics was started in 2006 by Catherine Mulbrandon. Here you will find graphics explaining the US economy.
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