Antonio Navalón No city in the world is more symbolic and representative of what Americans call the “melting pot” than New York. This place is populated by a mix of migrants from an assortment of nations from all over the world. Throughout the 20th century …
Global recovery remains slow, with growing regional divergences and little margin for policy error. To read the whole document, the controls for turning pages and zooming in or out are at the bottom left corner above. Further Reading:
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Niger, Chad, Congo, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and… Mexico. These countries have two phenomena in common. First, they are nations (if they can be called that) suffering from processes of internal decomposition …
Inflation around the world reached multidecade highs in 2022. While headline inflation has since come down, core measures are proving stickier. The high inflation experience of the last two years could engender persistently high inflation expectations, complicating central banks’ paths to getting inflation back to …
The title of the letter is from a Broadway play many years ago. Many people today feel that everything is terrible, with wars dragging on indefinitely, inept and corrupt governments in most parts of the world, non-existent leadership, and a global economic situation complicated by …
Antonio Navalón For many years now, the world has been witnessing, unperturbed, what is gradually becoming, if not the beginning of the end of its vital structure, a considerable worsening of the environmental conditions necessary for subsistence. Pollution after pollution and with a permanent denial …
There are many ways to measure different economies against one another, but comparing countries by GDP per capita remains one of the most tried-and-true methods. GDP per capita attempts to level the playing field by dividing a country’s economic output by its population, effectively giving the average …
What Powered the World in 2022? This was originally posted on Elements. In 2022, 29,165.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity was generated around the world, an increase of 2.3% from the previous year. In this visualization, we look at data from the latest Statistical Review of World …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Fifty years ago tomorrow, General Pinochet and almost the entire Chilean military broke their constitutional oath and staged a coup d’état against the legally elected government of Salvador Allende. The few military commanders who opposed the coup were eliminated. Thus, Chile aligned …
Antonio Navalón After reading and analyzing Henry Kissinger’s latest book, “Leadership”, which he has just published at the age of 100, I have discovered something important and worth noting. At this point in civilization, there is almost nothing new under the sun, and generally, the …