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1 month ago | visualcapitalist.com | Alan Kennedy |Lebon Siu

High-performance insulation is a cost-effective and reliable way to permanently reduce a building’s energy demand and carbon emissions over its entire service life. However, despite its ability to deliver significant economic benefits to homeowners and businesses, insulation is often undervalued or overlooked. For this graphic, Visual Capitalist partnered with the American Chemistry Council. In it, we explore three reasons insulation can lower costs and reduce a home or business’s carbon footprint.

1 month ago | visualcapitalist.com | Jenna Ross |Lebon Siu

A career in global trade can be highly lucrative and full of exciting and varied challenges. It can take you anywhere in the world. For this graphic, Visual Capitalist partnered with the Hinrich Foundation to discover why global trade is such an exciting industry and what students and professionals can do to get ahead. In 1995, the international trade of goods and services generated around $6.2 trillion.

2 months ago | visualcapitalist.com | Alan Kennedy |Lebon Siu

In 2024 alone, U.S. aluminum imports from Canada totaled nearly 2.7 million metric tons. This represents over half of the U.S.’s aluminum consumption and underscores Canada’s indispensable place in the U.S. aluminum supply chain.   For this graphic, Visual Capitalist partnered with the Aluminium Association of Canada to explore the landscape of U.S. aluminum imports and discover its importance in the U.S. economy.

2 months ago | visualcapitalist.com | Dorothy Neufeld |Lebon Siu

Over the past decade, the NASDAQ Composite Index has quadrupled, leading to inflated valuations. But does this signal an emerging asset-price bubble? In this graphic, from Picton Mahoney Asset Management, we show the key indicators of a stock market bubble and how today’s market conditions stack up. Since September 2022, AI stocks have surged over 250% amid investor euphoria, driving the lion’s share of the S&P 500’s gains.

2 months ago | visualcapitalist.com | Julia Wendling |Lebon Siu |Athul Alexander

CO₂ emissions are reshaping the rules, costs, and flows of international trade as countries adapt to the push for carbon neutrality. This graphic, created in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation, visualizes CO₂ emissions per person across 30 major economies. Data is from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR). The analysis comes from the 2024 Sustainable Trade Index (STI), which the Hinrich Foundation produced in collaboration with the IMD World Competitiveness Center.