There is no other emerging market that's transformed itself quite like Brazil, which has become an export superpower. That hasn't yet translated into a current account surplus, but it's a heck of a lot better than pretty much every other emerging market country...

Top 40 Largest Economies in the World by Nominal GDP 1. 🇺🇸 United States – $30.51T 2. 🇨🇳 China – $19.23T 3. 🇩🇪 Germany – $4.74T 4. 🇮🇳 India – $4.19T 5. 🇯🇵 Japan – $4.19T 6. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – $3.84T 7. 🇫🇷 France – $3.21T 8. 🇮🇹 Italy – $2.42T 9. 🇨🇦 Canada – $2.23T 10. 🇧🇷 Brazil

Mel Gibson is producing a miniseries about the Great Siege of Malta (1565), one of the most heroic episodes in Christian history. The story depicts how around 700 Hospitaller Knights resisted the siege of approximately 40,000 Ottoman soldiers, in a decisive clash for control of

Europe now has 0 companies left in the global top 25. What needs to happen for that to change by 2030?

This is a very big deal. China has asserted sweeping control over the entire global semiconductor supply chain, putting export license requirements on all rare earths used to manufacture advanced chips. If enforced aggressively, this policy could mean "lights out" for the US AI

Share of global production of critical minerals: Gallium (🇨🇳 China): 98.7% Magnesium (🇨🇳 China): 95.0% Niobium (🇧🇷 Brazil): 90.9% Tungsten (🇨🇳 China): 82.7% Bismuth (🇨🇳 China): 81.3% Graphite (🇨🇳 China): 79.4% Silicon (🇨🇳 China): 76.3% Cobalt (🇨🇩 DR Congo): 75.9% Platinum (🇿🇦

Top 20 Most Beautiful Cities in the World 1 🇦🇺 Adelaide, Australia 2 🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia 3 🇬🇧 Portsmouth, United Kingdom 4 🇲🇽 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 5 🇬🇹 Antigua, Guatemala 6 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore 7 🇫🇷 Paris, France 8 🇲🇦 Chefchaouen, Morocco 9 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai, Thailand 10

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🇯🇵🇨🇳 JAPAN JUST THREW MISSILES ON CHINA’S FRONT LAWN The gloves are off. Japan just placed medium-range missiles on Yonaguni Island - a speck of land so close to Taiwan (110 km) you could practically swim the Strait on a dare. Beijing’s predictable meltdown - calling it a

Beijing just announced they will PAY foreign scientists to do whatever research they like in China!! Its for international science scholars that graduated from top 500 global universities. China will let you pick your own research topic and get 200k RMB of funding per year to

The new US National Security Strategy does not sound like another "course correction" but like a dismantling of the post-Cold War consensus. The document sums up the last decades as a period of strategic mistakes and excessive ambitions, criticizes the approach of the elites

One man’s courage defined the best of Australia today. A Muslim small business owner risked his life to stop a shooter and protect strangers. This is multicultural Sydney at its finest, love of country, love of neighbour. . 🇦🇺🙏🏼

The next 72 hours are critical for the world. If the United States succeeds in imposing control over Venezuela, and by extension over the world’s largest proven oil reserves, it will mark a major shift in global power. Such a move would not be about restoring democracy or

BREAKING: Apple has acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai in a deal estimated at $1.5 billion, making it the company’s second-largest acquisition in history. To those calling to boycott Israel: Start by tossing your iPhone & AirPods!!

The Munich security conference is happening now. China's foreign minister will be there. It's important to remember that China is Putin's biggest enabler in his war on Ukraine. China's exports to Russia - counting everything (pink) - are up massively... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-russia-c…

Blue cities are out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off fiscal problems to some future day. Democrats in city halls should stop governing as if the goal is to announce new entitlements, and instead make government work. My take:

The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why. The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where

The first strike on Iranian oil infrastructure just landed. Not on Kharg Island, where Iran loads crude for export. Not on the southern oil fields of Khuzestan, where crude comes out of the ground. On the Shahran fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Tehran, where gasoline and

Nine days of the most intensive air campaign since 2003 and Kharg Island has not been touched. Kharg is a small rocky island 25 kilometers off Iran’s southern coast. It handles roughly two million barrels per day. Ninety percent of Iran’s crude oil exports flow through its

Today’s chart of oil prices will be referenced for decades to come. You just witnessed history.