tarpSubsidyscope, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, has built some interesting interactive visualizations of recent various federal programs meant to “Fix” the economy.  Of particular interest I find the visualization of the TARP program, where you can see not only the rate of spending (both integrated across time & as individual transactions), but the amount of money being sent to each of the banks.

Subsidyscope.com. via Information Aesthetics.