You're probably wondering how you could be so lucky as to stubmle upon 2 posts in one day here at chynmburli.
Well, sometimes it's better not to question such blessings.
So I'm still rather troubled by the many strange happenings in the market. I read an article today about the top 10 US bankruptcies in history, and to drive the point home (and given my on-going love affair with all things Excel), I created this nifty chart. (Click on it to make it bigger...this is the best that Blogger could do)
Ta da! Some perspective on what happened over the last 3 days.
These are billions of dollars.
And that freaking huge spike on the right? That's from Monday. Of this week. Like 2 days ago. The teeny blip on the far left? That's from 1987.
Here the article that I got the data from, if you're at all curious.
3 comments:
I should clarify that the $ amount represents the total assets of the company when it went under
Props on the pivot table!
I learned from the best!
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