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    • Monday, 9 April, 2018
      News in-depthGlobal Economy
      IMF shows poor track record at forecasting recessions

      Economic predictions presented as precise numbers are far from that in reality

    • Friday, 23 February, 2018
      ExplainerItalian politics
      The big issues of Italy’s election campaign in charts

      Europe, immigration, tax and spending divide parties ahead of March 4 poll

    • Thursday, 30 November, 2017
      UK agriculture
      Why Northern Ireland needs to avoid a hard border

      Region’s food industry is most at risk from barriers after Brexit

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2017
      European separatism
      Catalonia’s economic strength fuels independence push

      Region has lower unemployment and higher foreign investment than rest of Spain

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Filmmakers inspired by financial calamity

      The Big Short and Inside Job were among the best reviewed movies about the crisis

    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Five charts show why millennials are worse off than their parents

      Americans who came of age around the crisis have fallen behind previous generations

    • Saturday, 26 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Bank pay rebounded faster in the US than Europe

      CEOs still enjoy great riches, but MBA graduates increasingly prefer other careers

    • Friday, 25 August, 2017
      World
      Low rates benefited investors more than ordinary Americans

      Loose monetary policy led to share buybacks that enriched mainly the wealthy

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      What happened to the ‘too big to fail’ banks?

      While some have fallen down the global league table, many are larger today

    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Credit crisis led to a bonfire of the acronyms

      Securitisation created weapons of financial destruction and has not fully recovered

    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Here is the big reason banks are safer than a decade ago

      Institutions rely less on wholesale funding of the kind that seized up in the crisis 

    • Monday, 21 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Dealing with the effects of one bubble creating more

      From stocks to SWAG and from bonds to bitcoin, many assets look overpriced

    • Saturday, 19 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      John Authers: US stock valuations have been inflated by the Fed

      Financial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversary

    • Friday, 18 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      The US government is still propping up its mortgage market

      Reform of housing finance is largest piece of unfinished business from the crisis

    • Thursday, 17 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Over $9tn of bonds trade with negative yields

      How central banks created the most curious legacy of the financial crisis

    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2017
      Martin Wolf
      Martin Wolf: Nothing like this has happened in 323 years

      Financial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversary

    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
      Jamil Anderlini
      China’s economy is addicted to debt

      Beijing’s response to the financial crisis caused asset bubbles it has yet to tackle

    • Monday, 14 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Whatever happened to the global savings glut?

      The pattern of cross-border financial flows has changed since the crisis 

    • Saturday, 12 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      How global income inequality has shifted since the crisis

      Differences between, and within, countries vary dramatically

    • Friday, 11 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      The credit crisis did not lead to deleveraging

      The debt just moved around

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      The long and winding road to economic recovery 

      Some countries still have not regained the ground lost in the Great Recession

    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Who was convicted because of the global financial crisis?

      Hundreds have been prosecuted — just not necessarily the ones the public wanted to see

    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      Bailout costs will be a burden for years

      The US made money on its rescue of the banks, but other countries may not

    • Sunday, 6 August, 2017
      Gillian Tett
      Bankers’ pay closely tied to deregulation

      Financial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversary

    • Sunday, 6 August, 2017
      FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
      How banks paid for crisis-era misdeeds 

      Bank of America and JPMorgan top the league table of settlements in the US

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