Comments on: Chart of the day: World trade in recessions http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/ A slice of lime in the soda Sat, 25 May 2013 16:48:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: James Kwak http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/comment-page-1/#comment-2832 James Kwak Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:49:46 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/#comment-2832 Daniel - Those are YoY percentage changes, so the total volume of world trade doesn't matter. At least not on the first order. It's not as if the Y-axis is in dollars, in which case your point would be very valid. Felix - My apologies. I posted the exact same chart last night (well after you did), but at the time I didn't realize you had done it first. Daniel – Those are YoY percentage changes, so the total volume of world trade doesn’t matter. At least not on the first order. It’s not as if the Y-axis is in dollars, in which case your point would be very valid.

Felix – My apologies. I posted the exact same chart last night (well after you did), but at the time I didn’t realize you had done it first.

]]> By: Daniel M. Harrison http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/comment-page-1/#comment-2791 Daniel M. Harrison Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:53:36 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/#comment-2791 Another spectacularly misleading chart, given the percentage of world trade in previous eras vs. today. Another spectacularly misleading chart, given the percentage of world trade in previous eras vs. today.

]]> By: lark http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/comment-page-1/#comment-2778 lark Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:52:49 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/#comment-2778 World trade: good riddance to bad rubbish World trade: good riddance to bad rubbish

]]> By: jonathan http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/comment-page-1/#comment-2772 jonathan Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:53:31 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/#comment-2772 Forgot to mention my favorite chart is the one that shows how the cost of funds has lowered. It's kind of amazingly flat because this mess wasn't preceded by a runup in interest rates and thus we can't see the desperation in the moves by the Fed. I stared at that chart and thought, "Gee, one lesson is that if you'd raised rates before, it would like you'd have accomplished more now." It's a perverse world. Forgot to mention my favorite chart is the one that shows how the cost of funds has lowered. It’s kind of amazingly flat because this mess wasn’t preceded by a runup in interest rates and thus we can’t see the desperation in the moves by the Fed. I stared at that chart and thought, “Gee, one lesson is that if you’d raised rates before, it would like you’d have accomplished more now.” It’s a perverse world.

]]> By: jonathan http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/comment-page-1/#comment-2770 jonathan Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:44:32 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/06/15/chart-of-the-day-world-trade-in-recessions/#comment-2770 Those are the most amazing charts and Paul Swartz deserves a lot of credit for them. Those are the most amazing charts and Paul Swartz deserves a lot of credit for them.

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