Posted on by The Daily Shot Editor: Lev Borodovsky

Food for Thought Special Edition

The Daily Shot: 30-Dec-20
• Business/Personal Finances
• Geopolitics:
• Health
• Environment:
• Politics
• Technology
• Extra Credit:
• Happy New Year!

 

Business/Personal Finances

1. Using bank branches:
 
Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence  
 
2. Holiday spending funding sources:
 
Source: MagnifyMoney   Read full article  
 
3. Children are expensive:
 
Source: MagnifyMoney   Read full article  
 
4. Public construction spending:
 
Source: @WSJ   Read full article  
 
5. Asset forfeitures vs. burglaries:
 
Source: The Washington Post   Read full article  
 
6. Flying less:
 
Source: Barclays Research  

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Geopolitics:

1. Arab youth’s views of China:
 
Source: BCA Research  
 
2. Global terrorism-related deaths:
 
Source: Statista  
 
3. Assassinations of Iran’s nuclear scientists:
 
Source: Statista  
 
4. None of the countries that surrounded Poland before 1990 exist today.
 
Source: @amazingmap  
 
5. Countries mentioned in economics papers:
 
Source: The Economist   Read full article  

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Health

1. Americans’ assessment of mental health:
 
Source: @GallupNews   Read full article  
 
2. How did my country perform on COVID response?
 
Source: Deutsche Bank Research  
 
3. US maternal mortality rate:
 
Source: Statista  

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Environment:

1. Views on carbon removal techniques:
 
Source: @MorningConsult, @l_m_j_   Read full article  
 
2. Belief in climate change:
 
Source: Statista  
 
3. Temperatures in Stockholm since 1760:
 
Source: Riksbank  

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Politics

1. Demographics of the US Congress vs. general population:
 
Source: Data Is Beautiful  
 
2. GOP favorites for 2024:
 
Source: Statista  
 
3. Eleven counties that would win the presidency:
 
Source:  r/DataIsBeautiful   

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Technology

1. Connected cars:
 
Source: @RichardStubbe, @TheTerminal, Bloomberg Finance L.P.  
 
2. Cyberattacks:
 
Source: @IMFNews   Read full article  
 
3. Robot density vs. wages:
 
Source: IMF   Read full article  

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Extra Credit:

1. Writing systems around the world:
 
Source: Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa), Wikipedia  
 
2. Light pollution maps:
 
Source: Light pollution map  
 
3. Most commonly used currency unit names:
 
Source: Merchant Machine   Read full article  
 
4. 50% of Canadians live south of the red line:
 
Source: GEOstata  

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Happy New Year!

1. Common 2020 search topics:
 
• On Google:
 
Source: Statista  
 
• On Investopedia:
 
Source: Investopedia   Read full article  

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2. New Year’s celebrations around the world:
 
Source: Statista  
 
3. New Year’s resolutions:
 
Source: Statista  

 
As a reminder, the next Daily Shot will be out on Monday, January 4th.

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