Rising Energy Costs May Hit All Sectors Eventually

Late on Friday Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that military facilities on Kharg Island were targeted. Read his Truth carefully: Trump is deep into fantasy land. Yes, I think he has lost touch with reality. He admits that the oil terminals were not attacked, just some unidentified military targets. Iran has previously warned of […]

Visualizing Europe's Birth-Rate Collapse Europe’s population is no longer replacing itself. Across the continent, fertility rates have fallen below the 2.1 births per woman needed to maintain stable population levels, with no country meeting that threshold as of 2024. The map below, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, shows the number of live births per woman across Europe using the most recent data from Eurostat, FRED, and the UK’s Office for National Statistics. From Ukraine (0.99) to Spain (1.1), some of Europe’s largest countries now rank among those with the lowest birth rates, highlighting how widespread the decline has...

Israeli ground troops are reporting “targeted ground operations” by their troops in southern Lebanon, but with the Defense Ministry ordering all the bridges across the Litani River destroyed yesterday, there is mounting fear that the invasion is going to get a lot broader. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said he views the destruction of the bridges […]