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Friday, January 23, 2009

Financial sector in historical perspective

Some really good graphs. I don't need to say more.  The last two graphs are especially interesting. If you are interested in the deeper analysis of the graphs, read this NBER research paper.


Finl1990 

Finl1940 

(graph courtesy of Bespoke Investments)





(graph courtesy of NBER and author: Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef)