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1 week ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
Housing affordability in the United States has taken a sharp turn for the worse in recent years, as home prices surged to historical highs during and after the pandemic and mortgage rates climbed to levels last seen in the early 2000s, as the Fed was forced to raise interest rates to rein in inflation.
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2 weeks ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
The global apparel market is a trillion-dollar industry that employs tens of millions of workers around the world. But despite the industry’s strong growth over the past two decades, it remains heavily skewed towards the top of the value chain.
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4 weeks ago | 
intellinews.com | Felix Richter
VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is celebrated on May 8 each year to mark the formal end of World War II in Europe, reports Statista.
On this day in 1945, Allied forces accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, bringing nearly six years of brutal conflict in Europe to a close. The day is commemorated to honor the courage and sacrifice of those who fought and died during the war, and to celebrate the return of peace to the continent.
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1 month ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
Since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI tools have rapidly gained popularity as they are the most obvious, consumer-facing application and demonstration of AI's capabilities. And yet, the actual use of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT is still surprisingly low, considering the buzz around them.
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1 month ago | 
nature.com | Felix Richter
Iron metabolism is crucial for cellular and organismal homeostasis. Cells require iron for many cellular processes including energy production, gene regulation and replication. Thus, iron availability is tightly regulated by the balance between iron uptake, release and storage. Ferritin is essential for storing iron safely within cells, such that global deletion of the ferritin heavy chain (Fth) in mice is embryonically lethal.
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1 month ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
One of the stated goals of the Trump administration’s tariff offensive is to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States. But is that possible or even desirable in this day and age, when the vast majority of American workers have long moved on from manual labor towards knowledge-based jobs in the service sector?
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1 month ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
Nothing beats the convenience of having decades worth of music at your disposal at any time, any place, all at a monthly fee equivalent to the price of a single album. Considering this, the unstoppable rise of Spotify and other streaming services doesn’t come as surprise. What is a bit surprising is the pace at which people abandoned physical music.
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2 months ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
After a bad Thursday and a worse Friday for global markets, investors continued to hit the panic button on Monday, triggering steep selloffs in Asia and Europe, before the U.S. market also opened deep in the red. The S&P 500 opened 2.4 percent below Friday's close but briefly turned positive within the first hour of trading, as investors were grasping at straws to alleviate the pain.
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2 months ago | 
iyamagazine.com | Felix Richter
The U.S. stock market had its worst day since 2020 on Thursday, as investors were trying to digest President Trump’s sweeping tariff announcements from the day before. The surprisingly high additional tariffs – a 10 percent baseline tariff on all imports plus significantly higher rates for countries considered “bad actors” in trade – sent shockwaves around the world, as they threaten to upend the status quo of the global economy in one fell swoop.
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2 months ago | 
statista.com | Felix Richter
Ever since the first iPad was released in 2010, people have been trying to figure out what tablets are best at. Are they entertainment devices, perfect for watching video content or playing games when traveling or curled up on the sofa? Or are they productivity tools, ideal to be creative, scribble notes or get some work done on the train? Or are they a little bit of everything? A jack of all trades, master of none?
