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How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years Over the last 200 years, economic leadership has shifted from China to the British Empire, then to the United States, and increasingly back toward Asia. This streamgraph, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, tracks how the share of global gross domestic product (GDP) held by major economies changed from 1820 to 2025. The visualization incorporates the latest available data from the Maddison Project Database, the COLDAT Colonial Dates Dataset, and the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. All GDP figures are adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), accounting...

Condo Prices Already Dropped By Up To 33% In 24 Bigger Markets Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street, The price drops are getting relentlessly steeper: In 24 bigger markets, prices of mid-tier condos through April have dropped by 15% to 33% from their respective peaks between 2021 and 2024. Each of the markets is shown in a chart below: 24 mindboggling charts, depicting breath-taking price explosions, especially from mid-2020 to mid-2022, exceeding 50%, 60%, or even 70% in just two years in some cities. In the 10 years to the peak,...

Top Iranian and Lebanese officials have rejected a US-brokered agreement between Israel and Lebanon.  On Friday, the State Department announced an agreement between the governments of Lebanon and Israel that was framed as a ceasefire. Israel has been at war in Lebanon with Hezbollah for several years. Israeli forces are occupying Lebanon, and Tel Aviv […]