Iran Foreign Minister Claims U.S. Attacked Water Desalination Plant

How The World Added Decades To Life Expectancy The average person today can expect to live far longer than someone born in 1960, regardless of where they live. This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, tracks life expectancy at birth across four World Bank income groups. While high-income countries still have the longest lifespans, the biggest gains have come elsewhere. Upper-middle income countries have added more than three decades to life expectancy, while low-income countries have made substantial progress as well. The data for this visualization comes from World Bank via FRED. It...

Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian couple and two children in the West Bank village of Tammun as violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territory continues to surge. IDF soldiers opened fire on the family’s car overnight, killing Ali Khaled Bani Odeh, Waad Othman Bani Odeh, and their two young children: Othman, 7, who had […]

The Permanent Distortion Theory Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance “This time it’s different” is supposed to be the dumbest phrase in investing. It’s the phrase people use right before they get obliterated. It was the rallying cry of dot-com lunatics buying companies with no revenue in 1999. It was the intellectual foundation of housing perma-bulls in 2006 who believed home prices could only go up because, apparently, Americans had collectively decided real estate was immune mathematical reality. It’s typically what people say when they’re trying to justify paying absurd prices for dogshit assets...