never-say-never, but #gfc hit banks v.hard in 08/09. #SPX operating earnings may give truer picture? Yet direction plainly down-BIG, viz US term premia 'predicting' at least 25% down in '23 @shortl2021x.com/shortl2021/status/1578… …
2022 was '...get #Fed B/S down and get #USD up' 2023 will be ' ...get the USD down and get the Fed B/S up' ... when you are lying on your back things are (eventually) looking up..
Half the world's population lives in just 7 countries
China 1.4 billion
India 1.4 billion
US 338m
Indonesia 276m
Pakistan 236m
Nigeria 219m
Brazil 215m
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
Periodic reminder that the epidemiology team at Johns Hopkins published a report in September 2019 stating outright that lockdowns don't work for highly transmissible respiratory viruses. This was mainstream epidemiological consensus until recently. bit.ly/2MSDc7C /1
For the first time in modern history, the world’s population is projected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century, due in large part to falling global fertility rates. pewrsr.ch/2wY6vu3
% who say religion is very important
China 3%
UK 10%
Japan 10%
Sweden 10%
France 11%
Russia 16%
Australia 18%
Spain 22%
Canada 27%
Mexico 45%
US 53%
Greece 56%
Turkey 68%
Brazil 72%
Egypt 72%
S Africa 75%
India 80%
Nigeria 88%
Honduras 90%
Indonesia 93%
Ethiopia 98%
We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A: #SharkWeek
People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
Europeans who are atheists, agnostics or have no religion in particular
Netherlands 48%
Norway 43%
Sweden 42%
Belgium 38%
Denmark 30%
Spain 30%
France 28%
Germany 24%
UK 23%
Finland 22%
Switzerland 21%
Austria 16%
Portugal 15%
Ireland 15%
Italy 15%
The global religious landscape
31% Christians
24% Muslims
16% Unaffiliated (including atheists, agnostics, no religion in particular)
15% Hindus
7% Buddhists
6% Folk religions
0.8% Other religions (including Sikhs & Jains)
0.2% Jews
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
Religion of first year college students in the US
1966
Protestant 55%
Catholic 28%
None 7%
Other 5%
Jewish 5%
2015
Protestant 38%
None 30%
Catholic 24%
Other 6%
Jewish 3%
heri.ucla.edu/monographs/50Y…
NEW: Muslim populations in Europe (millions)
France 5.7m
Germany 4.9
UK 4.1
Italy 2.9
Netherlands 1.2
Spain 1.2
Sweden 0.8
Bulgaria 0.8
Greece 0.6
Austria 0.6
Switzerland 0.5
pewforum.org/2017/11/29/euro…