How do you see the financial crisis?
The Alphaville blog of the Financial Times posted a JP Morgan image showing the rapidly shrinking market values of major banks. Commenters immediately pointed out that the graph used diameter, rather than area (the square of half of the diameter, times pi), which made JP Morgan look better than it should. Below the jump, a couple variations on this theme.
Felix Salmon of Portfolio reworked the numbers into a bar graph.
I thought a line graph might show the growth and sudden decline of the banks' market capitalization, and thus the image above.
To construct it, I multiplied end-of-year shares outstanding from MSN MoneyCentral by end-of-year stock prices from Yahoo! Finance.
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