Felix Lanver

tariff level chart

The average Trump tariff is now 18%

A tariff is a tax on American companies and American consumers

Better stock up on coffee

I am doing a PhD in labor statistics but I get the feeling it’s not that wanted these days

Germany is deliberately alternating between positive and negative growth each quarter just to mock those fixated on the technical definition of a recession.

Compare 2016 with 2025 in this chart. In less than a decade Chinese car exports overtook Germany’s by a huge margin. What a decade!

Nach Mega-Verlusten: Gazprom erzwingt höhere Gaspreise zur Rettung Russlands Wirtschaft unter Druck: Gazprom schreibt rote Zahlen. Russische Bürger müssen die Verluste durch höhere Gaspreise ausgleichen.

Russia's war is increasingly coming home: In 2024, Gazprom recorded losses of $12.89 billion. Sanctions and declining revenues due to the Ukraine invasion have severely impacted the company. To offset these losses, domestic gas prices in Russia will rise by 10.3% starting July 1

Frankreichs Atomkraftwerke müssen Leistung drosseln: Hitzewelle im Mittelmeer - Wassertemperaturen mehr als 5 Grad über saisonalem Durchschnitt

"Die anhaltende Hitze im Mittelmeer und Atlantik zwingt den staatlichen 🇫🇷 Energieversorger EDF in Südfrankreich bereits Ende Juni 2025 dazu, die Stromproduktion in mehreren AKWs zu drosseln.

Grund: Überhöhte Wassertemperaturen in den Flüssen, die zur Kühlung der Reaktoren benötigt werden."

YouTube video by euronews 'Here comes the dictator' Juncker's cheeky welcome for Hungarian PM

Yesterday’s events reminded me of this

- federal district courts ruled against the Trump administration in 26 of 27 cases—a stunning 96% loss rate ( @adambonica.bsky.social @stanford.edu )
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-96-rebellion-district-courts

Europe is putting Nord Stream 1 & 2 behind for good.

We also propose to lower the oil price cap from 60 to 45 $ per barrel.

Oil is one third of Russia’s government revenues.

We need to cut this source.

We'll discuss how to best coordinate with partners at the G7 Summit ↓

europa.eu/!qG9bx3

LAC is a region of contrasts: Uruguay, Chile and Brazil stand out as some of the worlds best places for queer people to live in.

Caribbean countries remain among the worst globally, with the exception of Cuba, which surpasses even Argentina and Brazil.

Investing just one-third of the Social Climate Fund could subsidise up to 20 million heat pumps across the EU by 2032. This would be enough to reach all energy-poor households in nine EU countries and slash EU gas demand by 11% — nearly as much as the EU imported from Russia in 2024.

The breakup between Trump and Musk is playing out in a manner befitting an era of hyperreality: with stunning speed, wild recriminations, and in public via television and their own social media platforms.  
  
Head here for the timeline of how it all went down: bloom.bg/3SzqEAC

🌎 In 1980, 76 % of LAC countries were autocratic.

By 2024, this trend had reversed, with 76 % now being democracies.

Today, 5 countries are even considered "full" (=liberal) democracies: Barbados, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Uruguay.

A bar chart made of stacks of gold coins illustrates the "TOP 6 COUNTRIES by economic impact of the Recovery & Resilience Facility," with an "Estimate by 2030." From left to right, the stacks represent: Italy (IT) at €189.6bn, Spain (ES) at €142.7bn, Germany (DE) at €66.1bn, France (FR) at €57.5bn, Poland (PL) at €51bn, and Greece (EL) at €29.6bn. Each stack is labeled with the country's flag and its corresponding estimated economic impact. The bottom right corner features the "NEXT GEN EU" logo in yellow.

From investments alone, the estimated total impact of the RRF by 2030 is:

🔹 €891.7 bn in total
🔹 €546.2 bn in direct effects
🔹 €345.5 bn in spillover effects

⭐ Assuming full implementation of all 27 national plans as of January 2025

The image presents a line graph illustrating the shift in Greece's electricity generation sources over time, from 1990 to 2024. There are two main lines: one representing coal and another representing solar and wind energy. Initially, the coal line begins around 60% in 1990, gradually declining to 50% in 2014. A sharp drop occurs after that, leading to a low of about 6% in 2024. In contrast, the solar and wind line starts very low, around 2% in 1990, and rises steeply after 2015, almost tripling to approximately 43% by 2024. Key notes are emphasized in the graph: one states that in 2014, about half of Greece's electricity was generated by coal, while another indicates that only 15% came from solar and wind sources at that time.

Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind.

Today's data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Data from @ember-energy.org.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is an international organization founded in 1961 to promote economic progress and world trade. This is the timeline of when nations joined the @OECD.

Im Oval Office sagte US-Präsident Trump zum ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj, dass dieser „keine Karten“ habe.

Am Tag des ukrainischen Drohnenangriffs auf russische Militärflugplätze spielt der ukrainische Vize-Außenminister darauf an – morgen sitzt er in Istanbul am Verhandlungstisch.

Poland’s GDP per capita has more than doubled since it joined the European Union in 2004.

Since 2004, Poland’s inflation-adjusted exports have more than tripled, with around three-quarters going to other EU countries.

For @ourworldindata.org: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

What’s the biggest city in the world?

It depends.

This chart compares the population of the top 10 cities by three definitions: City Proper, Urban Area, and Metropolitan Area.

(Definitions in the comments)

LAC is a region of contrasts: Uruguay, Chile and Brazil stand out as some of the worlds best places for queer people to live in.

Caribbean countries remain among the worst globally, with the exception of Cuba, which surpasses even Argentina and Brazil.

Anna Bolten (FAS 25.5., €, via H.P.):

"Das Phänomen gilt vielen als Tatsache... Doch Wissenschaftler ... mahnen, das Phänomen differenzierter zu betrachten...

Platzt das Konzept der Filterblase nun?

Klar ist: Forscher fangen gerade erst an, den Einfluss sozialer Medien zu verstehen...".

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Investing just one-third of the Social Climate Fund could subsidise up to 20 million heat pumps across the EU by 2032. This would be enough to reach all energy-poor households in nine EU countries and slash EU gas demand by 11% — nearly as much as the EU imported from Russia in 2024.

Social Climate Fund could subsidise up to 20 million heat pumps across Europe A new study finds that investing just one-third of the Social Climate Fund, the EU could subsidise up to 20 million heat pumps across the EU by 2032.

We’ve got the tech
We’ve got the money
Now we need the political will 💪

EU countries have the tools to decarbonise fairly and leave no one behind. Check out our latest report on how many heat pumps for low-income households could be financed through the #SocialClimateFund

🎯 Next stop: June 2025

Well done, Axios. #dataviz

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world.

The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use.

Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Check out my latest data story on Latin America & the Caribbean!

-> felixlanver.github.io/lac_story/

NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social:

The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.

Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.

Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.

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