Interactive Visual History Of Financial Crises Since 1810 - Note Where The Fed Arrives

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/22/2012 20:45 -0500

• default
• European Central Bank
• Federal Reserve
• Gross Domestic Product
• Sovereign Default
• Volatility

As the name implies. What is funny is how only after the advent of the Federal Reserve in 1913 did Financial crises expose increasingly more of world GDP to a crisis state. But at least the Fed and ECB tell us all they do is enforce price stabeeletee. Could they be lying!? We thought it was all the gold standard's fault for causing unprecedented economic volatility... Guess not. From History Shots: "The giant wave in the top section of the graphic depicts the percentage of world GDP by region in crisis during the 200 year period. It includes the four major financial crisis types (sovereign default, banking, currency, and inflation) along with stock market crashes. The bottom section provides a detailed chart of all sovereign defaults by country, region and year. It shows the repeating nature of sovereign default, a central theme of Reinhart and Rogoff's book."
Full chronology after the jump.