Map of the Day: Every Year of the Mongol Empire
At its territorial maximum, the Mongolian Empire became the largest contiguous land empire in history, a title that it holds to this day
Where Workers Pay the Highest Income Tax
In a world where governments are taking roughly half of workers’ income in taxes, it should come as no surprise that employment, productivity, and incomes have stagnated
UK Defense Spending the Lowest Since 1692
The following chart shows the UK’s defense spending-to-GDP since 1692…
Image of the Day: Moonlight
Knude Baade – Coastal Landscape in Moonlight
Jim Chanos: Trouble Is Coming for the US Healthcare System
We have been really concerned about the rent seekers, the people who have just been on the margin ripping off the system
Visualizing Global Population Growth by Continent
By 2100, Africa’s population will have increased by an astonishing 17 times from 250 million people in 1950 to over 4.4 billion
The US Government Now Borrows More than the Entire Financial Sector
The federal government is not well positioned to cope with the possibility of rising interest rates
Gundlach: Fed Will Tighten Until Something Breaks
The Fed has gone from a mode of ‘we will raise rates when the data gets better’ to a mode of ‘we will raise rates unless the data gets worse’
Visualizing Google’s Domination of the Internet
Is Google crossing the line from a gateway to the internet to a gatekeeper to the internet?
Map of the Day: Every Week of the American War of Independence
All of the stages of the American War of Independence