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Over the last year, the future strength of the global economy has been a mixed picture amid rising protectionism and geopolitical conflict.In the U.S., growth was resilient - but higher prices, despite cooling inflation, continued to squeeze consumer wallets. European economies faced slower growth, with Germany facing a two-year downturn. In China, property market troubles weighed on consumer confidence and economic growth.Given this backdrop, how confident are people around the world in the global economy looking ahead to 2025?This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows global economic sentiment by country, based on survey data from Ipsos that asked respondents...

A pair of fertilizer production facilities in Poland have reportedly closed their doors, at least temporarily, because of the exorbitant cost of natural gas and other fuels. Record-breaking prices for fuel all across Europe forced Grupa Azoty, the European Union’s second-largest fertilizer producer and the owner of one of the plants, to halt operations. The company issued the following statement on August 22: “Due to record prices for natural gas, the main raw material for Grupa Azoty SA’s production, the company decided on August 22, 2022 to temporarily shut down its nitrogen fertilizer, caprolactam and polyamide 6 production plants from...

Several countries have wound up their evacuation operations already ahead of US forces pulling out at the end of August. Sky News looks at the global evacuation efforts: United States Number evacuated (approx): 88,000, including 4,500 Americans Operation ends: 31 August UK Number evacuated (approx): 15,000 Operation ends: 31 August France Number evacuated (approx): 2,100 Operation ends: Friday Germany Number evacuated (approx): 5,100 Operation ends: Unclear Italy Number evacuated (approx): 4,400 Operation ends: The Italian government has not yet said The Netherlands Number evacuated (approx): 1,000+ Operation ends: Today Denmark Number evacuated (approx): 1,000 Operation ends: Completed on Wednesday Belgium...

As expected, Democrats immediately began politicizing the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Quite a few of them even blamed Trump. Like clockwork, calls for more gun control have commenced. Democrats are even trying to pressure Mitch McConnell to cancel the Senate recess so they can vote on gun control. A common myth you can expect to hear a lot in the coming days and weeks is that the United States “leads the world in mass shootings” and therefore we must pass some law that will do nothing to stop future mass shootings, but will infringe on the...

See the graphs and download the data for all shitholes as actually produced by the very United Nations itself. All the countries that were referred to as shitholes, whether that was the actually "strong language" used or not, is entirely true and fact checked by the U.N! The #FakeNews refuses to do even attempt to do any research if it vindicates the truth or President Donald Trump. MSM, please just FOAD. Enjoy! Download the data in CSV format here and do your own data sorting and data analysis. Shitholes have higher HDI numbers. Notice that Central African Republic ranks as...

Congratulations, peoples of the United States of America, you’re living in the 7th best overall country in the world! U.S. News, in partnership with Y&R’s BAV and Wharton, came out with its ranking of the best countries in the world, all wrapped up in a beautiful, dynamic website. It almost takes the sting out of dropping from 4th to 7th — almost. “They rank it on categories they call adventure, citizenship, cultural influence, entrepreneurship, heritage, movers, open for business, power and quality of life,” Co-host Pat Gray said on The Glenn Beck Program. Coming in at number one was Switzerland,...

Full title:These are the Countries with the Biggest Debt Slaves, and Americans Are Only in 10th place Americans have been on a borrowing binge. To buy their favorite cars and trucks, they’ve loaded up on $1.14 trillion in auto loans. Young and not so young Americans are mortgaging their future with student loans that now amount to $1.28 trillion. Credit card and other debts are at $1.12 trillion. And mortgage debt stands at $8.82 trillion. So, total household debt was $12.35 trillion, according to the New York Fed’s Household Debt and Credit Report for the third quarter 2016. That’s a...