There are more and more sites that are using visual tools to illustrate banks, the credit crisis and other trends.
Mint is particularly good at doing this, and there is also a nice little video about the credit crisis that makes it simple to understand.
And then today, I stumbled across Visual Economics, a great little website that shows you exactly how the average American consumer spends their paycheck(doubleclick to see larger picture):
Or how credit card companies are not always serving the interests of their customers:
There are quite a few others in there as well.
Intriguing …