Kiva, the microfinance organization that lets people loan money through the Internet to small businesses and individuals from around the world, started with 7 loans back in 2005. Since then, they've funded over 309,000 loans totaling over $233 million.
This nifty Vimeo clip visualizes the streams of lending and loan repayment that looks very much like exchanges of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Hit play or go to Link [Vimeo] - via Floating Sheep
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China is conspicuously absent. The country appears to be a black hole with an event horizon of loans.
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Wow, the title of this post was... severely misleading...
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