Category: International/Global

Starbucks began by purchasing roasted beans from Peets Coffee and Teas. Peets was founded by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peets. Years later, in 1983, Howard Schulz was in Milan on business…

“Some 40% of software engineers in the country are born outside the US,…” Chicago Seeks Laid Off Tech Workers With H-1B Visas for Jobs – Bloomberg Bloomberg appears to have…

For many reasons, but especially due to the decrease in the fertility rate, we will see much more immigration in the 21st century, unlike what we have seen before. Over…

As explained in excruciating detail here, the World’s Happiest Country metric does not measure anyone’s happiness. Instead, it collects some metrics, weights them, drops them into the Stat-o-Meter, and pops…

Lots more complexity to this story than we see from the usual media coverage. Fascinating look at the trade and energy implications and where this war leads – possibly to…

Covid, and then Russia’s war on everyone, have led to numerous changes in global trade. Some argue that the multi-decade period of global trade expansion is ending and we will…

In the U.S., and most of the world, our societies are amazingly global, with widespread travel and trade between countries, and immigration of workers (especially) between countries. Here I summarize…

India has 5 times more people in the critical 20-29 age bracket. Stated another way, the top 20% of the young Indian cohort is the same size as that entire…

Am expecting this blog to be censored and thrown offline very soon. Passing along good news is forbidden. The estimated decline at the end is due to Covid pandemic.

I previously estimated between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 have lived abroad at some point in their life. I just increased that estimate to 35-40% of U.S. residents…