Charting A U.S. Financial Crisis

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I came across some excellent Wall Street Journal charts this morning which show how the present financial crisis in the United States came to be. Like that old saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

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Sources: WSJ Market Data Group, Federal Reserve, Dealogic, Equifax, Moody’s Economy.com, National Association of Realtors, St. Louis Federal Reserve, Dow Jones Indexes

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“U.S. Mulls Next Steps in Crisis”
Bob Davis, Greg Ip, and Damian Paletta
Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2008

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