Charles Millard: Under-Funding Pensions Is Equivalent to a Tax Hike
If you don’t put it in you are not going to fill the hole…
Sam Zell: After Ten Years of Weak Growth, Does It End or Do You Have a Catch-Up?
‘The US system is built for give-or-take a 3% growth rate. Now that we have had 10 years of less than 2%, do you have an end to it or do you have to have a catch-up?’
Hong Kong’s Ultra Rich Population Overtakes New York’s, Surged by 31% Last Year
While the US was once the leading creator of millionaires and ultra-rich, the mantle has passed to China and specifically Hong Kong
Map of the Day: Every European Country’s Maximum Extent
The borders of every European country at their largest
Image of the Day: The Chapel
By Arnold Böcklin, 1898
The Average Tenure of the US Supreme Court Every Year Since 1789
It is interesting to consider that the court is essentially the longest serving it has been since the outbreak of the Civil War
George Friedman: Can China’s Expansion Be Checked?
What are they building? When will they build it and who will command it?
Image of the Day: Anvil
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 5th of September 2018 to The Sounding Line. Via the great artist and cartoonist Jonathan Plotkin at Spontonist.com P.S. If you would like to […]
Map of the Day: Visualizing Our Rapidly Aging World
In Japan the median age was 25 in 1960, today it is 47, and by 2060 it will be 53
Image of the Day: Hay Trolley
Hay trolleys represent some of the first industrial products to emerge after the American Civil War which leveraged the enhanced foundry expertise gained by extensive weapon making