The balance sheets of major global central banks have steadily increased since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. The chart below shows the balance sheet figures measured against the percentage of Global GDP: Click to enlarge Source: The Long Unwinding Road—Navigating Regime Shift, T.Rowe Price
The GDP Growth forecasts for the top 12 global oil producing countries are shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Source: 2019 Economic Outlook for the Top Oil Producing Countries, Focus Economics
The US is the biggest economy in the world now and is projected to be maintain that leadership in 2019 as well. However China’s economy is growing faster and the country is catching up fast with the US. Click to enlarge Source: The World’s Top 10 Largest Economies, Focus Economics In addition to China, the emerging …
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Tourism is one of the major industries in many countries. Europe leads the world in tourist arrival numbers. A few facts about global tourism are: International arrivals grew by 7% in 2017 to 1.3 billion people. International Tourism receipts exceed $1.3 Trillion. Europe received the most arrivals at about 671 million followed by Asia-Pacific and …
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Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci is known not only as a great painter but also a great inventor. His voracious curiosity for knowledge and science led him to learn and master a variety of subjects. Recently I came across an article on “The To-Do List” he used to maintain around the 1490s. Unlike most to-do lists …