Different ways to visually explain the Global Financial Crisis

The Global Financial Crisis is complex and everyone grapples with trying to understand how the world got into this mess. An excellent explanation using clever visual techniques is available on the Jonathan Jarvis's website.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Another good visual explanation of the crisis has been created by Xplane.

I like the Xplane explanation but Jonathan Jarvis is easier to follow. The strength of the Jarvis approach is he moves back and forth from a high level overview to more detail views. This allows us to keep track of the context of the answer and not get lost.

Lastly is a visual explanations that uses crude graphics (and crude language!) to explain the financial crisis. It is a good example of using very basic drawings to get your point across. View it here.