Image of the Day: Rhenish Landscape
An illustration by Barry Moser from the Pennyroyal edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
The US Is Beating Its Clean Energy Forecasts
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 7th of October 2017 to The Sounding Line. Independent of the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the United States has made significant […]
Map of the Day: North American Bedrock Ages
The age of the bedrock across the entire North American continent
Visualizing America’s Middle Class Squeeze
The distribution of median incomes in the 20 largest American cities from 1970 to 2015
Where Would Separation Leave Catalonia and Spain Economically?
Catalonia’s economy is larger than 12 other countries in the EU including: Hungary, Finland, and the Baltic countries combined
Image of the Day: First Image of the Ruins of Machu Picchu
“The ruins of Machu Picchu covered in jungle growth in this 1911 photograph taken when Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham first came to the site”
El-Erian: Never Underestimate the Power of Central Banks
The vulnerability is the gap between the fundamentals that remain sluggish and asset prices which are high
Map of the Day: the Evolution of Modern Government
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 1st of October 2017 to The Sounding Line. The following map, from Our World in Data, shows the evolution of government around the world […]
Image of the Day: Island of the Dead
Arnold Boecklin – Island of the Dead (third version) – 1883
Catalonia Economically More Similar to the Eurozone Than to Spain
“Catalan residents represent about 16 percent of the country’s population. Yet these same residents contribute 20 percent of Spain’s taxes”