More than a third of the population in Croatia was suffering from high blood pressure in 2019 according to data by Eurostat. As our chart indicates, the Balkan country’s share is almost twice as high as the EU average.Overall, roughly 22 percent of res…
Division on Capitol Hill might be centering around the debt ceiling and the bipartisan spending bill of $1.2 trillion at the moment, but the elephant in the room remains the Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion proposal – also dubbed the human infrastructu…
October 1 is International Coffee Day, created in 2015 to promote and celebrate the beverage. The Statista Global Consumer Survey shows that Americans are in fact quite fond of the drink. In the survey, Coffee was named by more U.S. adults as a regular…
My weekend has started. I’m at Dworzec Centralny w Warszawie, waiting for a train for a little weekend road trip to Krakow. I will post more once I get situated in my train in about 30 minutes.
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
What’s going on with bonds is interesting. It used to be that as bonds eroded, interest rates went up, and then banks would roll around in a bull-gasm. These days, however, even the nimrods who buy equities are realizing that higher interest …
This morning, gold is enjoying a desperately-needed relief rally, up nearly $40 per ounce as I am typing this. Sadly, for precious metals fans, I think this is just another fake-out. Don’t get me wrong philosophically, I would love to see gol…
71 percent of online U.S. respondents to Statista’s Global Consumer survey (GCS) say they use a cloud storage service such as iCloud or Dropbox, but what’s actually being saved there?As the GCS reveals, the most commonly named consumer use of cloud sto…
You may recall that, comically, there was an attempt made early this year by the /wsb crowd to make Bed Bath & Beyond the next hot meme stock, in the fashion of AMC and GME. Having lost 70% since January, it seems that fanfare has been rendered…
Netflix has been using the promotional slogan ‘Netflix is a Joke’ for a few years now – a seemingly self-deriding phrase intended to draw attention to the wealth of comedy content it hosts on its video streaming platform. As a Statista Global Consumer …