Chart: The Collapse In Global Trade - Planet Money Blog : NPR

Chart: The Collapse In Global Trade - Planet Money Blog : NPR: "...a catastrophic decline in gross exports,' Weinberg writes. The IMF data on exports track a 36 percent fall from the peak of $1.5 trillion in July 2008. 'We have never experienced anything like this in our lifetimes. Neither, quite frankly, did we ever think we would.'"

"The big elephant in the room." (Carl Weinberg/High Frequency Economics)