Food for Thought Special Edition

The Daily Shot: 27-May-21
Business
Technology/Business
Environment:
US Politics
Geopolitics
Health
Demographic trends:
Education
Economic Trends
Other



 

Business

1. Disney theme park foot traffic:
 
Source: Cornerstone Macro  
 
2. Buy now, pay later services:
 
reasons:
 
Source: LendingTree   Read full article  
 
products:
 
Source: LendingTree   Read full article  
 
interest:
 
Source: LendingTree   Read full article  
 
by generation:
 
Source: LendingTree   Read full article  

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3. Buying goods online:
 
Source: @financialtimes   Read full article  
 
4. House price gains vs. stocks:
 
Source: Visual Capitalist   Read full article  
 
5. Kansas City Southern merging with Canadian National Railway:
 
Source: @axios   Read full article  
 
6. Legal cannabis markets:
 
Source: Hoya Capital Real Estate  
 
7. The future of branch banking:
 
Source: Visual Capitalist   Read full article  
 
8. Olympic games primetime viewership:
 
Source: Morning Consult   Read full article  
 
9. Sports-related SPACs:
 
Source: @WSJ   Read full article  
 
10. The richest families in the US:
 
Source: Visual Capitalist   Read full article  


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Technology/Business

1. Tablet shipments:
 
Source: Statista  
 
2. Podcasts and streaming music:
 
Source: Morning Consult   Read full article  
 
3. Mobile operating systems:
 
Source: @chartrdaily  
 
4. Lithium-ion batteries:
 
Source: The Economist   Read full article  
 
5. E-commerce users vs. GDP per capita:
 
Source: Brookings   Read full article  
 
6. Most popular desktop brands:
 
Source: Statista  
 
7. Declining usage of cash:
 
Source: McKinsey Insights   Read full article  
 
8. Battery supply chain:
 
Source: Fitch Solutions Macro Research  
 
9. Demand for streaming content:
 
Source: @axios   Read full article  
 
10. Streaming wars:
 
Source: Watchworthy, Ranker Insights   Read full article  


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Environment:

1. CO2 emissions:
 
Source: @jeffsparshott  
 
Source: NOAA   Read full article  
 
What percentage of total fossil fuel CO2 emissions since 1751 have occurred in your lifetime.?
 
Source: @neilrkaye  

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2. Americans identifying as environmentalists:
 
Source: Gallup   Read full article  
 
3. Changing consumer behavior:
 
Source: McKinsey Insights   Read full article  
 
4. Best ways to reduce carbon footprint:
 
Source: @financialtimes   Read full article  
 
5. Most polluted cities:
 
Source: Statista  
 
6. Opinions on government role in climate change:
 
Source: @axios   Read full article  
 
7. Economic freedom and environmental performance:
 
Source: C3 Solutions   Read full article  


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US Politics

1. The Cook Political Report partisan voter index:
 
Source: Cook Political Report   Read full article  
 
2. US party affiliation:
 
Source: Gallup   Read full article  
 
3. Public financing of campaigns:
 
Source: @EchelonInsights  
 
4. Support for infrastructure spending (3 charts):
 
Source: YouGov   Read full article  
 
Source: Morning Consult   Read full article  
 
Source: Morning Consult   Read full article  

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5. Trust in US institutions:
 
Source: Morning Consult   Read full article  
 
6. View of foreign trade as an opportunity:
 
Source: Gallup   Read full article  
 
7. Views on the quality of the environment:
 
Source: Gallup   Read full article  


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Geopolitics

1. OECD countries:
 
Source: @markets   Read full article  
 
2. Americans’ views on most critical threats to the US:
 
Source: Statista  
 
3. Press freedom:
 
Source: @axios   Read full article  
 
4. R&D investment:
 
Source: BofA Global Research  
 
5. US foreign wars:
 
Source: Statista  
 
6. Support for the US exiting Afghanistan by September:
 
Source: Morning Consult   Read full article  
 
7. Wars, massacres, and atrocities of the twentieth century:
 
Source: Matthew White   Read full article  


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Health

1. Herd immunity by Q3?
 
Source: McKinsey & Company   Read full article  
 
2. Leading causes of death in 2020:
 
Source: The Economist   Read full article  
 
3. Medical debt:
 
Source: LendingTree   Read full article  
 
4. Support for legalization of cannabis:
 
Source: @johngramlich, @pewresearch   Read full article  
 
5. Teen alcohol usage:
 
Source: @PotResearch   Read full article  
 
6. Telemedicine trends (4 charts):
 
Source: @WSJ   Read full article  
 
Source: CivicScience    Read full article  
 
Source: @WSJ   Read full article  
 
Source: @WSJ   Read full article  

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7. Population with health insurance:
 
Source: @howmuch_net   Read full article  


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Demographic trends:

1. US 65+ population projections:
 
Source: Mizuho Securities USA  
 
2. Asian American population (2 charts):
 
Source: Pew Research Center   Read full article  
 
Source: Pew Research Center   Read full article  

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3. Mean age of women at the birth of their first child:
 
Source: Eurostat   Read full article  
 
4. World population pyramid over time:
 
Source: Our World in Data   Read full article  
 
5. Life expectancy trends:
 
Source: Anne Case and Angus Deaton, PNAS   Read full article  
 
6. Marriage vs. GDP per capita:
 
Source: @_alice_evans   Read full article  
 
7. US child population changes in the last decade:
 
Source: Brookings   Read full article  
 
8. Population growth by state:
 
Source: Quill Intelligence  
 
9. Young adults living with parents:
 
Source: Deutsche Bank Research  
 
10. 20th-century population booms:
 
Source: TS Lombard  
 
11. Mobility trends:
 
Source: @Hedgeye  


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Education

1. Elementary school closures:
 
Source: Nordea Markets  
 
2. Education jobs lost:
 
Source: Moody’s Analytics  
 
3. Education losses due to the pandemic:
 
Source: IMF   Read full article  
 
4. Gross enrollment rate in tertiary education:
 
Source: King’s College   Read full article  
 
5. Harvard acceptance rate:
 
Source: @chartrdaily   Read full article  
 
6. Ivy-Plus attendance by income category:
 
Source: Opportunity Insights   Read full article  
 
7. Views on remote learning:
 
Source: McKinsey    Read full article  
 
8. What would you want your child to do after high school?
 
Source: Gallup   Read full article  


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Economic Trends

1. The distribution of global industrial production over time:
 
Source: VOX EU   Read full article  
 
Share of the world’s GDP:
 
Source: Beautiful Economics  

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2. US manufacturing trade balance:
 
Source: @adam_tooze, @M_C_Klein   Read full article  
 
3. Utah vs. Hawaii GDP:
 
Source: @axios   Read full article  
 
4. Wealth inequality:
 
Source: Eurofound   Read full article  
 
5. US government spending:
 
Source: Yardeni Research  
 
6. States’ contribution to US GDP:
 
Source: Statista  
 
7. US Infrastructure underinvestment:
 
Source: Morgan Stanley Research  


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Other

1. Which of the following herbs are you growing in your garden this year?
 
Source: AEI  
 
2. Favorability ratings of British royals:
 
Source: Statista  
 
3. Causes of death in Shakespeare plays:
 
Source: Vox   Read full article  


 
As a reminder, the next Daily Shot will be published on June 1st.


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