Even with travel restrictions, curfews and closures of tourist attractions all over the world due to coronavirus pandemic, the Museé de Louvre still saw 2.7 million people visiting its exhibitions in 2020. As our chart shows, the runner-ups for the tit…
According to official data by Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda overseen by the Interior Ministry, the number of currently disappeared people in the country surpassed 100,000 in the latest update. Combined with figures from a report by the Jesuits…
In the upcoming midterms, two topics are vying for the attention of U.S. voters: the all-powerful state of the economy and the likely loss of national abortion protections.American voters have habitually named the economy as their biggest concern ahead…
Global defense spending surpassed the two trillion U.S. dollar mark for the first time in 2021, hitting $2,113 billion, according to the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The figure marks a 0.7 percent incre…
If I was a bull (I’m not) and if I wanted to scare the bejesus out of the bears (I don’t), I would show them this chart: It is, of course, my concoction known as the MICE (Most Important Chart Ever), and as you can plainly see, it has c…
This bear market rallies are a misery, aren’t they? I’m staying on the sidelines still. I will note, however, we’re getting at least within the same ZIP code as some major resistance areas:
Only 22.7% of U.S. students are required to take a personal finance course. Which states have the highest levels of personal finance education?
Human nature on a mass scale is fascinating to me. Check out this “just for fun” chart of the Labor Participation Rate in the U.S. over a period of many decades. It is presently at 62.2% (what the other 38% of the country is doing with …
I would have never guessed anything like the facts below: the entirety of the OPEC nations are totally dwarfed in importance by our friendly neighbor to the north. Why do we bother to kowtow to the bloodthirsty maniacs in Saudi Arabia at all anymor…
This visualization breaks down U.S. oil imports by country for 2021, showing the split by OPEC and non-OPEC nations.