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rose98734
@rose98734 Jan 9, 2026, 11:33 AM UTC

Canada had the best-performing stock market of 2025

2025 started ominously for Canada: President-elect Trump vowed to use "economic force" to coerce Canada into becoming the 51st state. Shortly after his inauguration, he followed up his words with act…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Dec 17, 2025, 4:22 PM UTC

The median age of American first-time home buyers climbs sharply

Here is the chart: source This is down to two things: the interest rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage is 6.25%. Combined with the high prices of properties, it makes servicing a new mortgage unaff…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Nov 23, 2025, 8:47 PM UTC

There are now 12 Trillion Dollar companies in the world

Here is the list: source There are no European or Chinese companies on the list. There is one Taiwanese company (TSMC), a Saudi company (Saudi Arabian Oil), and the rest are all American. It's no sur…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Nov 19, 2025, 11:33 PM UTC

French govt debt interest payments are now 2.3% of GDP, the highest since 2013

The United States is not the only country to find that interest payments on government debt are eating it's budget. France is experiencing the same thing. Here is the chart: source Debt interest paym…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Nov 16, 2025, 11:16 PM UTC

Comparing the current stock market to 1929...

Lots of stock market bubbles have been compared to the lead up to the 1929 peak, most notably the 1990's dot-com boom. But the post covid tech-and-AI boom appears to be tracing the same path. Here is…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Nov 12, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

Budgets Spanish-style - Don't bother, just roll the old budget over

Spain had a general election on 23rd July 2023, which produced a hung parliament. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party managed to cobble a coalition together with far-l…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Nov 10, 2025, 12:01 AM UTC

French GDP used to be higher than Britain's - but the UK has now decisively pulled ahead

France and Britain have similarly sized populations, and for most of the post-war period had similar sized economies, with France being in the lead, especially during the trente glourieuses from 1945…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Nov 2, 2025, 11:35 PM UTC

Britain's minimum wage is now too high

The minimum wage in the UK is now £12.21 per hour. Rachel Reeves has hinted that it will rise to £12.70 per hour after the budget. That works out to £23,114 per annum for a 35 hour week. But the lowe…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Oct 29, 2025, 12:08 AM UTC

Canada finishes doing Quantitative Tightening

The Bank of Canada has shrunk it's assets from 26% of GDP in 2020 to 8% of GDP now. Here is the chart: source As you can see from the chart, they've shed their Covid-era QE much faster than other cen…

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rose98734
@rose98734 Oct 27, 2025, 5:51 PM UTC

This chart shows why Britain voted to Brexit

It plots economic growth from 2007 to 2015 against real annual wages (i.e. wages after adjusting for inflation): source Click to enlarge the image. There is Britain alone in the bottom right quadrant…

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