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Home prices have doubled in the U.S. between 2010 and 2021, the median square footage of the average single-family home has doubled in size (from 1048 SF in 1920 to 2,491 SF in 2020), but the median household income required ($124,000)...

The world installed 599 GW of solar panels last year, up about a third from 2023. Generating power only 15% of the time, these panels should produce about 787 TWh of electricity – equivalent to the output of a third of the world’s...

A four-day visit to Disney World for a two-parent family of four at a value-priced Disney hotel cost $4,266 in 2024 according to travel data provider Touring Plans, which represents a 32% increase from five years ago. Nearly 80% of the...

Whenever the S&P500 has been up more than 2% in January, the market was up for that year more than 87% of the time, with an 18.4% average rate-of-return. – Ryan Detrick, January 31, 2025 “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my...

Last year, products coming from China made up 14% of all imported goods, the lowest share in nearly two decades. Mexico (15.4%) became the largest source of U.S. imports, with Canada (13.6%) not far behind. – The Week, December 6,...

In 2005, the typical home seller in the U.S. was only 47 years old. Today, the typical home seller is 63, the oldest ever recorded. – MarketWatch, November 5, 2024 In 2023, consumers in the United States returned $743 billion...

The vacancy rate in American offices has reached 20.1%, the highest since the rating agency began tracking it in 1979. – Moody’s, September 10, 2024 The monthly Logistics Managers’ Index that measures the health of the US supply chain...

A recent report from S&P Global predicts that the amount of copper we’ll need over the next 25 years will be more than the human race consumed in its entire history. – Wired, August 22, 2024 On 8/28/24, two days before Chair and...

In the second quarter of the year, Alphabet made $1.023 billion in net interest income alone, income made just by having a large pile of money in interest-bearing accounts. This is more than the actual profits of 397 companies in the...