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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