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🇨🇳 China is by far the world’s largest producer of rare earth elements, producing over 270,000 tons in 2024.

Rare earths, such as neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium, are crucial for producing electric motors, wind turbines, smartphones, and advanced military equipment.

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October 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Foreign-made parts from Ukraine’s allies are being found in Russian weapons.

🇺🇸 Over 81% are US-made, according to Ukrainian officials.

If sanctions are working, why are Russian weapons still running on Western tech?
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October 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Minnesota's XCel Energy calculates refunds for gas credit card fees for ~450k customers.

Catch up on the full docket history, key parties, and document timeline here: app.halcyon.io/processes/29...

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June 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How much does the UK spend on welfare?

🇪🇺 Relatively little compared to Europe: just 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including sickness & disability benefits, pensions, etc.).

Meanwhile, 🇫🇮Finland spends 25.7% of GDP & 🇫🇷France 23.8%.

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July 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
UK car production is less than half of what it was in 1999. 🚗📉
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August 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🚀 How can we boost Britain's low productivity?

🔗 Listen to our expert panel discussion from the Festival of Economics 2024 https://buff.ly/3X78pV3

#ChartOfTheDay #EconomicsFest #Productivity
December 31, 2024 at 8:23 AM
🇺🇸 US steel prices are climbing as Trump’s 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports take effects today.

#ChartOfTheDay #Steel #Tariff #Trade
March 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🇺🇸 By the end of 2024, the US had 3 million federal employees — making up 1.9% of all jobs.

Federal employment as a share of total employment has steadily declined since a WWII peak of 7.45% in 1944.

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April 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Dollar against Euro. Not too good. Provided by @washingtonpost.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
🇬🇧 What does the price of a sausage roll and a pint of Guinness reveal about regional inequality? 🧵👇
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May 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🇧🇴#ElectionDay in Bolivia: After 20 years in power, the leftist government has been voted out. Stagnant GDP per capita and high inflation shaped the result, with voters wanting political change.

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August 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Energy has increased consistently as a proportion of UK market sector investment in infrastructure, primarily at the expense of mining and quarrying. This demonstrates the changing economic priorities of the UK economy.

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September 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🇸🇾 Between 2008 and 2019, 1.16 million first-time asylum seekers originated from Syria.

Read @vale_diiasio and Jackline Wahba on where asylum seekers go and why https://buff.ly/3ZwxNnR

#ChartOfTheDay #Syria
December 9, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Property & private pensions make up the largest share of wealth for Britain’s richest households.

For lower-wealth groups, physical assets (like cars & household goods) make up a much larger share, with no property assets, and very limited financial assets.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Today is #InternationalWomensDay 🟣

🇩🇰 Denmark ranks highest on the Women’s Peace and Security Index (0.93), while 🇦🇫 Afghanistan ranks lowest (0.29).

#ChartOfTheDay #IWD2025 #equality #AccelerateAction
March 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
👚 Clothing sales doubled between 2000 and 2015, while utilisation – the number of times we wear an item before discarding it – fell.

🔎 Read Elaine Ritch on the true costs of fast fashion buff.ly/J3KyajN 👈

#ChartOfTheDay #FashionWeek #FastFashion #SustainableFashion #CircularEconomy
March 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🧦 Clothing & footwear generated over 13 million short tons (≈ 11.8 million metric tonnes) of waste in 2018 – with over 9 million tons landfilled.

🔎 Read Xiaoyang Long on how fast fashion harms the environment👇 buff.ly/sGee4E4

#ChartOfTheDay #FastFashion #Sustainability #FashionWeek
March 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
📚 43% of universities in England are expected to run a deficit this year.

#ChartOfTheDay #University #Education
May 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
September 8 #chartoftheday

Dominion wants new rate class for mega-users (think data centers)

But Amazon, Google, Microsoft & others back the “Joint High Load Proposal” for new customers (50+ MW) starting Jan 2026

Here are 3 of the 11 counter-proposals:
app.halcyon.io/processes/18...

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September 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨 More UK bathing waters are failing quality tests.

In 2024, 1 in 12 sites were rated poor — up from just 1 in 60 in 2019.

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July 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
GCSE pass rate falls marginally to 67.4% – almost back to pre-pandemic 2019 levels (67.3%).

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August 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A #ChartOfTheDay challenge:

❓ What does this map show? ❓

👇 The answer is revealed below... 👇
December 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM
🇬🇧 #ONS estimates that real gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.1% in October.

📊 A decline in production (-0.6%) and construction output (-0.4%) drove the contraction, while services remained steady.
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December 13, 2024 at 3:32 PM
🇺🇸 In 2022, the average American spent over $10,300 on healthcare – more than any other country.
Despite its world-leading per-capita health spending, the U.S. trails behind comparable wealthy nations in life expectancy.

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December 12, 2024 at 11:23 AM