Global Migration and Debt

[Richard]

Interesting infographic to play with and ponder.

Richard

Global Migration and Debt
GEDVIZ

Global Economic Dynamics, in collaboration with 9elements, provides an explorer that shows country relationships through migration and debt. Inspired by a New York Times graphic from a few years ago, which was a static look at debt, the GED interactive allows you to select among 46 countries and browse data from 2000 through 2010.

Each outer bar represents a country, and each connecting line either indicates merchandise trade, migration, or bank claims between two countries, depending on which you choose to look at. You can also select several country indicators, which are represented with bubbles.

The strength of the visualization is in the connections and the ability to browse the data by year. The transitions are smooth so that it's easy to follow along through time. The same goes for when you select and deselect countries.

http://viz.ged-project.de/

[Trapper John]

Very good information. Thanks for this post Richard. I am going to be noodling over this for a while.

First impressions: If I were an investor and I had my portfolio distributed in companies performing like these countries, I would shift my funds out of the US and park it (80%) in Germany for security and put the remainder in China for growth.

Another point, if Germany can maintain a balanced economy over the long term then so can the US.

Finally, I read somewhere that China is planning to build a canal through Honduras to accommodate the larger super freighters. US has no plans for improving its ports to accommodate these ships. Failure to think 20-30 years down the road and act accordingly - the trade balance will only worsen. Oh, hell, what am I saying - we can't think beyond the next election cycle.

[SF18C]

I stopped believing the Germans in 1998, when that lying ass bitch got the hell out my house!

[Trapper John]

Originally Posted by SF18C

I stopped believing the Germans in 1998, when that lying ass bitch got the hell out my house!

I'd bet that there's an interesting story in there somewhere

[ddoering]

Originally Posted by Trapper John

Finally, I read somewhere that China is planning to build a canal through Honduras to accommodate the larger super freighters. US has no plans for improving its ports to accommodate these ships. Failure to think 20-30 years down the road and act accordingly - the trade balance will only worsen. Oh, hell, what am I saying - we can't think beyond the next election cycle.

Let them. It will become obolete once the transporter beams are in place.