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The World Is Becoming Increasingly Divided By Fertility The world is becoming increasingly divided by fertility. One group of countries now has too few births to naturally replace its population, while another continues to see population growth driven by higher fertility rates. This demographic divide has major implications for aging populations, labor markets, immigration, and future economic growth. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins, shows which countries are above and below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman, using projections for 2025 from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 Revision. While...

Bessent Insists US Treasury Will Oversee Unfrozen Iranian Funds: Food & Medicine Only There remains a major divergence in how Iran and the United States are interpreting the results of the MoU signing in the wake of the historic Switzerland peace talks, as lower-level teams remain in place to hammer out the technical details of the agreement. The divergence/contradiction continues to be seen in not only the latest statements from President Trump himself, but also from the US Treasury: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has insisted that a large portion of unfrozen Iranian...

John Mearsheimer Asks: Will Trump Go Kamikaze? Authored by John Mearsheimer There is much talk about President Trump preparing to launch a ground attack against Iran. In the media discourse, much is made of the fact we have about 50,000 troops in the region. See for example these three articles. One might think those are all combat troops and we therefore have roughly three combat divisions available to invade Iran. But that is not true. Until recently, there were about 40,000 US troops in the region, which were mainly a mixture of Air Force,...