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 …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting was held last week in an atmosphere of global realignments. The leaders’ speeches (3 women among men) from multiple countries expressed opinions on common issues: the war in Ukraine, the global financial system, poverty, the …
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 …
Riccardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO invited the countries closest to his heart to the September 16, 2023, military parade. All are ruled by dictatorships: Russia, China, Cuba and Nicaragua. Instead of being a parade commemorating a heroic deed in our national life, the president transformed the …
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 …
Luis Rubio India advances uncontainably but in an exceedingly peculiar manner, deftly skirting the obstacles imposed upon it inexorably by its extraordinary linguistic, religious, and ethnic diversity. An extraordinarily complex and stratified society coming up against enormous barriers to progress, it has found innovative ways …
The political race is heating up in the United States, and it is really embarrassing to see the contenders’ lack of quality and credibility. President Biden seems to be deteriorating by the hour and commented while visiting the Maui fire disaster that provoked a general …
Antonio Navalón America is on fire. From North to South and East to West, the crisis is generalized and has one element in common: the loss of faith in its ruling classes. In politics, it is well known that dictators or disruptive elements are always …
How much do people trust that their governments are doing the right thing? Trust in the institutions, confidence in the path toward economic prosperity, shifts in trust from authorities to peers, trust in media, transparency and accountability, rule of law, democratic values, polarization, all these …
Just like the anecdote that so many times they mistakenly said that the wolf was coming and when it finally arrived nobody believed it, we could be in recession. The accelerated increase in interest rates should be causing the economy to slacken rapidly and inflation …