hbl — Balance Sheet Visualizer now works with Internet Explorer 10

I recently tried the Macroeconomic Balance Sheet Visualizer in Internet Explorer 10 (the latest as of earlier this year) and noticed the graphics did not show up at all.

I have now fixed the issue. If you’ve sent it to anyone who told you it didn’t work for them, they should have more success with it now. 

Footnote: However, to make this fix I had to remove a library that had allowed it to work with old browsers such as Internet Explorer 8 and before. When I created the visualizer in 2009, supporting these old browsers was important, but browsers have come a long way since then and this should work in the latest version of each of the major desktop browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera). Please report any problems you notice.

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Balance Sheet Visualizer now works with Internet Explorer 10
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hbl — Balance Sheet Visualizer in German plus a Video Trailer for EconViz

Thanks to Oskar Fuhlrott for taking the initiative recently on a German translation of the Macroeconomic Balance Sheet Visualizer, currently hosted with permission on his site:
Makroökonomischer Bilanz-Visualisierer

Also, last year I was remiss in not sharing the link to a nicely done trailer on youtube that fistfullproduction created as a video teaser for the EconViz tutorials:

A Visual Guide to The Economy, by hbl

Thanks to both, and as always thanks to the many others who have shared links to EconViz with others! A secondary benefit of this is that for quite some time, How the Economy Works – A Visual Tutorial has been ranked #2 or #3 on google searches forhow the economy works and how economy works!

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Balance Sheet Visualizer in German plus a Video Trailer for EconViz
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hbl — Update on Current Tutorial Initiatives

I’ve been taking a break from working on the How the Economy Works tutorial. Thank you to those who shared it with others! However, I’m still having trouble (as far as I can tell) getting it in front of people for whom this content is not already at least somewhat familiar. 

To try some new directions, a few weeks ago I started on a much shorter interactive tutorial, “How Loans Create Money“, incorporating balance sheets more centrally into the page-by-page narrated tutorial format in a way that I hope is accessible to more people than those who benefit from the Macroeconomic Balance Sheet Visualizer. Since then, this has become a hot topic in the econoblogosphere, with debates between Paul Krugman, Steve Keen, Scott Fullwiler, and others! It’s very foundational stuff.

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Update on Current Tutorial Initiatives

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