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Canada had the best-performing stock market of 20252025 started ominously for Canada: President-elect Trump vowed to use "economic force" to coerce Canada into becoming the 51st state. Shortly after his inauguration, he followed…
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The median age of American first-time home buyers climbs sharplyHere is the chart: source This is down to two things: the interest rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage is 6.25%. Combined with the high prices of propertie
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French GDP used to be higher than Britain's - but the UK has now decisively pulled aheadFrance and Britain have similarly sized populations, and for most of the post-war period had similar sized economies, with France being in the lead, especially during the…
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Britain's minimum wage is now too highThe minimum wage in the UK is now £12.21 per hour. Rachel Reeves has hinted that it will rise to £12.70 per hour after the budget. That works out to £23,114 per annum for a 35…
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Canada finishes doing Quantitative TighteningThe Bank of Canada has shrunk it's assets from 26% of GDP in 2020 to 8% of GDP now. Here is the chart: [source](
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This chart shows why Britain voted to BrexitIt plots economic growth from 2007 to 2015 against real annual wages (i.e. wages after adjusting for inflation): source Click to enlarge the image. There is Br
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The % of people with an immigration background in German industryHere is the table in German: source Here is a translation: Schweiss Verbindungstechnik = Welding connection technology : 60%
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Does France believe that the rest of the Eurozone will bail them out via an ECB intervention or by issuing Eurobonds?France has had three Prime Ministers this year. Michel Barnier lost a vote of no confidence just four months into his premiership after proposing spending cuts. Francois Bayrou…
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Nvidia now represents 8.2% of the S&P 500 indexHere's the chart: source Nvidia's share of the S&P 500 index is now bigger than the entire energy sector (3%), the entire utilit
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The number of unemployed in Germany approaches 3 million - the highest since 2014Normally unemployment doesn't rise much in Germany as there is a state-run furlough scheme that allows businesses to put their staff on a three-day working week till the economy…
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