Sovereign Debt Crisis – Interest Expenses Are Already Consuming Large Portions of Tax Revenue
Japan, for example, is paying nearly 24% of its tax revenues to service its debt, despite only paying an effective interest rate of 1%!
Chart of the Day: Meet Your Future Mega-Cities
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 28th of June 2017 to The Sounding Line. The Global Cities Institute, recently released projections for the growth of the world’s urban areas over […]
Map of The Day: Crumbling Global Trade
For the last few years, much has been made of the decline in the value of global trade, particularly here at The Sounding Line. While the volume of global trade […]
Dissecting US Trade – Part II – What is at Stake
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 16th of February 2017 to The Sounding Line. In ‘Dissecting US Trade – Part I’ (here) we detailed the US balance of trade since […]
Global Nuclear Power Generation in One Chart
The nuclear power industry has been in a state of flux since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, following which, Japan closed all of its nuclear power plants. Those closures were followed […]
Is the BRICS Era Ending?
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 15th of December 2016 to The Sounding Line. The term BRIC (Brazil Russia India and China) was first coined in 2001 by former Goldman […]
Jim Rogers Skeptical of OPEC Oil Cut Agreement
Notable investor and author Jim Rogers recently spoke with The Economic Times of India, one of the premier economic publication in India, and fielded some questions about the recent OPEC […]
Why Oil Supply May be Tighter Than You Think
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 3rd of December 2016 to The Sounding Line. Long gone are the days of popular hysteria over ‘peak oil,’ the theory that global oil […]
The Power of Voting
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 16th of September 2016 to The Sounding Line. As our readers are surely aware, it’s election season in the US. Beyond the twists and […]