Our Economic Ruination (Now In Animated Form!)

Note to anyone blaming President Obama for the recession: Watch this animated map of job growth and loss from 2004 to 2010. The job losses begin to bloom way back in early 2008.

Other items to watch:

• Katrina
• Detroit as the auto industry crashes
• New York as the Wall Street bubble swells

When late 2008 arrives, the animation goes from fascinating to heartbreaking.

Via Twitter's David Pierpont