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It's oil (and energy) graphics day WSJ - Daily Shot: Reuters - OPEC Oil Production 9/16/19 WSJ - Daily Shot: Arbor Research - Change Oil Production (select countries) 9/16/19 WSJ - Daily Shot: Statista - World's Largest Oil Producers 9/16/19 WSJ - Daily Shot: BloombergNEF - Energy Production
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Bloomberg - The Good News About Income Inequality - Karl W. Smith 9/12/19 The headline from the U.S. Census Bureau’s report this week on health insurance coverage was that the ranks of the uninsured swelled by almost 2 million Americans in 2018. But the larger trends illustrated in
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First, if you're looking for some clever graphics illustrating the scale of plastic bottle waste, Visual Capitalist has obliged. Bloomberg - Concerts Are More Expensive Than Ever, and Fans Keep Paying Up - Lucas Shaw 9/9/19 It’s not your imagination: Concert ticket prices are going through the
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WSJ - Daily Shot: BoAML - Greatest Asset Bubbles in History 9/9/19 WSJ - Daily Shot: Deutsche Bank - US Labor Force Participation 65 Yrs and Older 9/9/19
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In case you are wondering who are the folks in America with the largest swaths of land, have a gander thanks to Dave Merrill, Devon Pendleton, Sophie Alexander, Jeremy CF Lin, and Andre Tartar at Bloomberg. Next, here is a country with some of the most sought after bonds on
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WSJ - Daily Shot: Developed World Interest Rate by Term 9/5/19 WSJ - Daily Shot: Statista - World's Biggest Human Migrations 9/5/19
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WSJ - In Zimbabwe, Promise of Mobile Money Fades When the Power Goes Out - Bernard Mpofu and Gabriele Steinhauser 9/1/19 More than most other places in the world, this southern African nation with a long history of monetary dysfunction has staked its financial system on mobile money, which allows
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Bloomberg - More People Are Leaving NYC Daily Than Any Other U.S. City - Wei Lu and Alexandre Tanzi 8/29/19 New York leads all U.S. metro areas as the largest net loser with 277 people moving every day -- more than double the exodus of 132 just one year
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Economist - Argentina's beleaguered government imposes capital controls 9/2/19 When Mauricio Macri was elected president of Argentina in 2015, one of his first acts was to abolish capital controls that restricted buying and selling of the peso. The move symbolized Argentina’s pivot back to open markets
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FT - South Korea's birth rate falls to new developed world low - Song Jung-a 8/28/19 South Korea’s birth rate, already the lowest in the developed world, has fallen to a new low on factors such as the high cost of private education despite various government
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WSJ - Daily Shot: Fed Funds Futures Curve 8/28/19 For perspective. FT - Remittances: the hidden engine of globalization - Federica Cocco, Jonathan Wheatley, Jane Pong, David Blood, and Aendrew Rininsland 8/27/19 …An estimated 270m migrants around the world who will send a combined $689bn back home this year,
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WSJ - Soaring Student Debt Opens Door to Relief Scams - Jean Eaglesham, Michael Tobin, and Coulter Jones 8/26/19 Student debt is soaring—it is now nearly $1.5 trillion—and defaults are at a record. That has been fertile ground for companies that promise to help stretched borrowers by