1. Cyber risk costs:
 
Source: Fitch Ratings  
 
2. Government support for business R&D (BERD = business enterprise expenditure on R&D):
 
Source: BCA Research  
 
3. Corporate merger activity creating value for consumers:
 
Source: Bain & Company    Read full article   Further reading  
 
4. Global orbital launches:
 
Source: Deutsche Bank Research  
 
5. Facebook’s fight against hate speech:
 
Source: Statista  
 
6. US social spending vs. other advanced economies:
 
Source: @SteveRattner  
 
7. Year-over-year changes in US gun deaths:
 
Source: The Washington Post   Read full article  
 
8. News sites seeing lower traffic:
 
Source: @chartrdaily  
 
9. Billionaires in Germany:
 
Source: @Schuldensuehner   Read full article  
 
10. Near-Earth asteroids:
 
Source: JPL  

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