Vaya con dios.....maybe
Alta
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The average Mexican in 1990 had the private goods and public services that the average Indian has today.
Unsurprisingly, India lags Mexico on several metrics like infant mortality rate by 23-26 years.
I love India but this is simply not true. Mexico is an upper middle income country with $14,000 GDP per capita while India is $3,000.
This is reflected in the material conditions and availability of public services and infrastructure.
I went to one of the poorest parts of Mexico (Oaxaca) in 2012. This is their equivalent of Bihar. The streets were clean and municipal services and enforcement (against things like encroachment) was robust.
That being said, violent crime in India is several orders of magnitude lower than Mexico. Most foreigner tourists could walk through an Indian favela equivalent with no credible threat to their safety.
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Economic might is an unbeatable foreign policy.
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Mao Zedong is under any single social metric a dictator. Not a single popular election, single government party and lifetime leadership. Not even taking into account the millions of deaths under his reign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
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I have never used DoorDash, and I am not alone: the median US household in every single age group spends $0 per year on food delivery (source: Fed SCF)
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It's just a shame that Limodio miscoded the treatment period to include the month before Ramadhan rather than the month after. The result disappears when the period described in the text is used. The curse of the slop five strikes again.
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Jesus this sounds like Depeche Mode or Nine Inch Nails, it's crazy, always thought he kind of creatively stagnated in the 1970s. – at Ankara, Türkiye
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A country with socialised healthcare should not have a minimum pension of more than 30% of the median wage.
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Something I learned today:
Korea nominal GDP growth in 2026 will be about 20%
CPI inflation is 3%
GDP deflator is 17%.
It’s all in the price of semiconductors
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Look at trade data, and its spillovers, from the last @IMFNews World Economic Outlook
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In the age of TV, I used to watch some fairly popular series, but in the age of podcasts I don’t listen to any of the most popular ones
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Seems like one implication is that per capita income is a lot better than thought?
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Most people are probably dismissive of it when they encounter it, but the success of Chinese “old town” tourism spots is a massively fascinating phenomenon because it’s the antithesis of what European tourism is trying to be, which is overcharging you on an “authentic secret”.
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if you zeroed out the French military budget, that would pay for France's pensions for 18 days
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The US gets 83% of its energy from fossil fuels vs 73% in Europe. In the words of a great performer....
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Similar story for “arroz a la cubana” (Cuban rice) in Spain, if you ask for one in Cuba, either they won’t know about it, or they just know because a Spanish tourist asked for it before.
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I loved Digger but my girlfriend hated it, placing the film in the same auspicious category as The National, free jazz, sardines, and Italian futurism.
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the economist fell for it too lol
