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The problem with long term investments

If, in 1970, you invested $100 in a fund tracking the S&P index, then by 2023 the investment would have grown to $22,000, far more than it would have in other assets such as real estate or government and corporate bonds. Case closed, right? Put your money into an index fund and simply leave it there.

https://blog.datawrapper.de/long-term-investments/

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How much of national income goes to the richest 1%?

You might expect these numbers to be strongly correlated to a country’s level of economic development. But this isn’t always the case. In the United States, for example, 1% of its population takes home 21% of national income. This is relatively high globally.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/how-much-of-national-income-goes-to-the-richest1

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How much of national income goes to the richest 1%?

You might expect these numbers to be strongly correlated to a country’s level of economic development. But this isn’t always the case. In the United States, for example, 1% of its population takes home 21% of national income. This is relatively high globally.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/how-much-of-national-income-goes-to-the-richest1

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🇺🇸 🌎 Mapped: U.S. Immigrants by Region

"From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of America’s 46.2 million immigrants."

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-immigrants-by-region/

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"Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years.

Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today.

The study’s researchers estimate that 40% of this decline is due to vaccines."

Hannah Ritchie (2024) - “Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/vaccines-children-saved' [Online Resource]

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🇨🇳 Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?

"The large economic growth that lifted 800 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction."

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china

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Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?

"The large economic growth that lifted 800 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction."

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china

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Visualizing Global Inflation Forecasts (2024-2026)

"After hitting a peak of 8.7% in 2022, global inflation is projected to fall to 5.9% in 2024, reflecting promising inflation trends amid resilient global growth."

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-inflation-forecasts-2024-2026/

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