Tag: English
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Ten regions. €3.8 trillion. Four German entries, one Irish number that isn’t quite what it looks like — and a leader that laps the whole field. Europe’s economy is almost always told country by country. Drop down one level, to the NUTS2 regions that Eurostat actually measures, and the map stops looking like a map…
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The Brazilian rock scene is perhaps the least known — and most surprising — chapter in the whole history of Latin American rock. It was born in a country with a musical tradition so rich and layered that it seems almost impermeable to the electric guitar: samba, bossa nova, MPB, baião. And yet rock in…
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Italy has just pulled off one of the most sensational feats in the history of international baseball: on 10 March 2026, the Azzurri beat the United States 8–6 at the 2026 World Baseball Classic in Houston. A result that travelled around the world, and the perfect occasion to explore the data on baseball around the…
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Today we’re looking at one of the most jaw-dropping paradoxes in global geopolitics. A country sitting on some of the largest energy reserves on earth — that can’t keep the lights on for its own citizens. Let’s talk about Iran 🇮🇷 First, the numbers that make Iran a superpower Before we get to the crisis,…
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Digital payments, cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies. In theory, gold should be a thing of the past. And yet central banks all over the world keep buying it. Stockpiling it. Competing for it. Why? Because gold is the only asset that doesn’t depend on any government’s promise. It cannot be printed. It doesn’t expire. And in a…