In Europe Pensions are a major component of wealth. Roughly trading places with corporate equities. From the pdf this was based on: https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-report-2019-en.pdf " In the United Kingdom and Japan, for example, equities account for 10-15% of total financial assets. In contrast, they make up around 30% of financial assets in the United States, and over 40% in Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, New Zealand and Sweden. " " the benchmark level for the wealth/GDP ratio in fully developed economies is about four in normal times. Germany and Sweden remain below this level, probably reflecting generous state provision of pensions and healthcare, which reduces the incentive for individuals to save for their retirement needs."

I don't think you understand. In the United States of America, the senators who come from the worst, least appealing, most toxic states get to decide every piece of legislation that reaches a vote. They know what's best for our country and we revere them for their efforts in providing their own constituency with absolute misery by electing them for another term. Aren't tons of Texans traveling to places with heat/power right now? Afaik, Texas doesn't even have travel restrictions in place so Cruz nor anyone else are breaking any rules. At this moment, I'm pretty sure the risk of freezing to death outweighs the risk of catching covid so I won't bemoan anyone traveling to find safety. Aren't tons of Texans traveling to places with heat/power right now? Afaik, Texas doesn't even have travel restrictions in place so Cruz nor anyone else are breaking any rules. At this moment, I'm pretty sure the risk of freezing to death outweighs the risk of catching co...

Carlos Dagoret has been publishing a series of photo galleries that in a context shows us touches of our society. He left you a photo, and I recommend that you go to his excellent post on the galleries. Take care !! A man waits after receiving a dose of COVISHIELD, a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, in an auditorium, which has been converted into a temporary vaccination center, in Ahmedabad, India, February 5, 2021. REUTERS / Amit Dave The list of post: Light at the end of the tunnel: Pandemic – Photogallery 01/31/2021 Masks and Masks, more restrictions: Photo gallery of February 8. Pademic How Chile achieved the most massive and efficient vaccination in Latin America Photos of the week 02/18/2021: Pandemic. In the north the codvid cases decrease. Storm … cold

 In Belle Epoque Paris, a woman half dangles off a polished wooden bed, as an old-fashioned portrait stares sternly from the wall. Yesterday’s clothes lie heaped on a footstool, never meant for the public’s gaze. Are we looking at a Manet painting of a courtesan? No—there has been violence here. Who invited us to see? At the end of the 19th century, Parisian police officer Alphonse Bertillon devised a new system of crime scene photography, inviting detectives, jurors, and newspaper readers into scenes of violence and private interiors never so starkly revealed before. Previously, detective work had relied on first-person testimony over circumstantial evidence. Crime scenes were recorded in sketches and notes, in whatever manner the police could manage with the materials they had, free of any standard or system. The camera, used sporadically since the mid-1800s to take portraits of alleged criminals, was, in Bertillon’s new system, meant to usher in a new era of objectivity in foren...

  Did you know the United States had a president named Leslie? That isn't the odd thing about him. It turns out that Presidents are also human, which means they are also deeply weird. Here are 45 strange tidbits of trivia all about the people who have taken up residence in the White House. 1. Gerald Ford was a model.   Gerald Ford—birth name Leslie Lynch King, Jr.—was a model for Cosmopolitan , appearing in a cover illustration he posed for in 1942. He also met his wife through modeling. 2. Herbert Hoover invented his own sport. Watch out, Calvin Coolidge Ball. To stay fit, Herbert Hoover and his personal physician invented their own sport: Hooverball . The game was a sort of cross between volleyball, tennis, and dodgeball, except much more terrifying, because it was played with a medicine ball. 3. Herbert Hoover managed the football team at Stanford.   Speaking of Hoover and sports: young Herbert was manager of the football team at Stanford, but he was a littl...

  Forget heart disease and cancer and all the other tragic or banal ways most of us will exit this world of the living. Instead, seek distraction via our completely unscientific and by no means definitive list of the most dangerous creatures in Texas that could, by some fluke, kill you first. Brain-eating Amoebas For sweet relief from the interminable hellscape that is the Texas summer, plunk your hot bod into the nearest swimming hole. Just beware of the Naegleria fowleri , a nasty little single-celled organism lurking in warm water and nicknamed for its favorite pastime—literally eating human brains. Naegleria enters your body through the nose and shimmies into your skull, where it plays around in your brains, destroying the tissue. (This amoeba can also strike when you use contaminated tap water to flush your sinuses, FYI.) It is present in freshwater throughout Texas, and there’s really no body of water that can be considered safer from it than others. Experts ad...

  Russian search engine and email provider Yandex said today that it caught one of its employees selling access to user email accounts for personal gains. The company, which did not disclose the employee's name, said the person was "one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support" for its Yandex.Mail service. The Russian company said it's now in the process of notifying the owners of the 4,887 mailboxes that were compromised and to which the employee sold access to third-parties. Yandex officials also said they re-secured the compromised accounts and blocked what appeared to be unauthorized logins. They are now asking impacted account owners to change their passwords. Incident discovered during a routine check Yandex said it discovered the incident during a "routine screening" by its internal security team but did not elaborate. The Russian company said that a "thorough internal investigation" of the...

  We often think of apartment kitchens as problems to be solved. They’re likely to be short on counter space, storage, and light, or they’re stubbornly out of step with trends in interior design. As renters, we may try to spruce them up with extra shelves and unusual drawer pulls. Dream kitchens, by contrast, are the light-filled, airy, marble-clad workspaces where movie characters sip tea before an open laptop. They’re situated well outside the city limits, inside large houses on landscaped grounds. The ideal view over the horizon of the kitchen sink is a tall hydrangea shrub, not a brick wall. The ideal American kitchen has long had an implicit pro-suburban bias, positing city kitchens as the domain of the young, single, and struggling. This isn’t accidental: Suburban kitchens were designed to appeal to families settling in the new suburbs in the decades following the end of World War II, and were marketed as a reprieve to the (supposedly) cramped urban kitchens that people were ...