FT SeriesThe financial crisis in chartsHow a financial collapse reshaped economies, markets, politics — even our cultureThe warnings from history that Wall Street ignoredBy August 2007 the financial system was in grave dangerThe credit crisis did not lead to deleveragingThe debt just moved aroundHere is the big reason banks are safer than a decade agoInstitutions rely less on wholesale funding of the kind that seized up in the crisis What happened to the ‘too big to fail’ banks?While some have fallen down the global league table, many are larger todayFive charts show why millennials are worse off than their parentsAmericans who came of age around the crisis have fallen behind previous generationsFilmmakers inspired by financial calamityThe Big Short and Inside Job were among the best reviewed movies about the crisisMore from this SeriesMartin Wolf: Nothing like this has happened in 323 yearsFinancial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversaryOver $9tn of bonds trade with negative yieldsHow central banks created the most curious legacy of the financial crisisThe long and winding road to economic recovery Some countries still have not regained the ground lost in the Great RecessionWhatever happened to the global savings glut?The pattern of cross-border financial flows has changed since the crisis China’s economy is addicted to debtBeijing’s response to the financial crisis caused asset bubbles it has yet to tackleJohn Authers: US stock valuations have been inflated by the FedFinancial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversaryDealing with the effects of one bubble creating moreFrom stocks to SWAG and from bonds to bitcoin, many assets look overpricedBailout costs will be a burden for yearsThe US made money on its rescue of the banks, but other countries may notHow global income inequality has shifted since the crisisDifferences between, and within, countries vary dramaticallyUS home ownership fall hits young and minorities hardest Financial crisis has left fewer Americans on property ladder since 1960sThe US government is still propping up its mortgage marketReform of housing finance is largest piece of unfinished business from the crisisHow the very richest have fared since the crisisTheir net worth was hit by the stock market slump, but the rebound has been heftyLow rates benefited investors more than ordinary AmericansLoose monetary policy led to share buybacks that enriched mainly the wealthyWho was convicted because of the global financial crisis?Hundreds have been prosecuted — just not necessarily the ones the public wanted to seeHow banks paid for crisis-era misdeeds Bank of America and JPMorgan top the league table of settlements in the USCredit crisis led to a bonfire of the acronymsSecuritisation created weapons of financial destruction and has not fully recoveredBank pay rebounded faster in the US than EuropeCEOs still enjoy great riches, but MBA graduates increasingly prefer other careersBankers’ pay closely tied to deregulationFinancial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversaryTen years after the crashThe financial crisis brought the global economy to the brink. In this special issue of the FT Weekend Magazine, writers and columnists explore whether enough has been done to stop it happening again
