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2022-06-19 17:05:05 Outlook for the Vegetable Meat Market

A little Sunday offtopic from our usual political and economic topics: we're all used to good old-fashioned "conventional" meat, but progress and the fight for environmentalism, veganism and other progressive values are not standing still - and the plant-based meat market is projected to grow 5.5 times in 2030! From less than $30 billion today to $162 billion.

And by 2040, "conventional" meat is projected to make up only 40% of the meat market. 25% will take vegetable meat (comment from admin: I once bought cutlets from Beyond Meat out of interest - actually not bad, but it doesn't look like meat at all... And at this price...), 35% - cultured

This is all motivated by ethical considerations: after all, 88% of the world's consumers prefer to buy from "ethical" companies, the young prefer "ethical" more often than the older generation, and plant-based meat is ethical! Less (by 30-90%) emissions, less (by 47-99%) land needed, less (by 72-99%) water needed too.

Such is Open / Comment

2022-06-18 10:05:06 How the shares of major Internet browsers have changed in recent years

Interesting statistics on the background of the recent news about the end of support for good old Internet Explorer. In fact, hardly anyone has been using IE lately -- its market share, which was over 50% back in 2010, has now dropped to a vanishingly small 0.8%. So the decision is expected, in general.

Chrome is the clear leader: 67.1% of all users are using Chrome! 10.4% use IE to replace Microsoft Edge, 9% use Apple's default browser Safari and 7.8% use Firefox (which used to be - just in 2010 - the browser with the second-highest market share of over 30%). The bottom five leaders are Opera with share of 3% (it has been the stable browser for the last 10+ years). Open / Comment

2022-06-17 19:04:45 Municipal elections in Moscow in 2022

According to data Russian Field, the vast majority of Moscow residents (84%) do not know about the upcoming municipal elections to be held in the capital on September 11.

The majority of Muscovites (60%) are planning to take part in the elections, and the proportion of those who are going to vote is increasing with age, most of them in the age group of 60+.

Also, the desire to vote depends on their satisfaction with the current situation in the city - the higher it is, the greater the likelihood of participation in the election. According to the study, the United Russia party is in the lead in terms of potential votes.

#Election #Russia Open / Comment

2022-06-17 14:05:08 The World's Most Peaceful and Militant Countries 2022

According to Global Peace Index 2022 calculations, Russia this year ranked fourth among the most bellicose countries in the world, behind only Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan. This is 5 positions higher than the year before: we left behind South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Somalia and the Central African Republic. The expected "success," in general

Ukraine, by the way, in this rating was given the 10th place in the "belligerence" rating - significantly lower than us, although significantly higher than last year's 27th place

The most peaceful countries were Iceland (for the second consecutive year in the ranking), New Zealand (not the first time in a row in the second place) and Ireland. Let's all be like Iceland, really. Open / Comment

2022-06-17 10:05:06 The biggest bear markets of recent decades

A bear market is a period of relatively long declines in stock indices, which we now seem to have entered again

The longest recent bear market was the early 2000s, during the dot-com crash, when stock indices declined for 31 straight months, losing 49% of their value during that time. It took 56 months to recover. The longest recovery came in the 1973-1974 recession, which lasted 69 months. The worst decline was during the crisis of the late 2000s: from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009, the market declined by 57%. Open / Comment

2022-06-16 17:05:07 Main friends and enemies of Russia according to Russians

According to survey, Russians consider Belarus (72% - a year ago it was markedly less, 58%), China (50% vs. 38% a year earlier) and Kazakhstan (34%) to be the main friends of our country. The top 10 included, for example, such "world leaders" as Syria, Venezuela, and Cuba.

The entire Western world is considered Russia's main enemy. The leaders here are the United States (73% vs. 66% last year), Britain (49% vs. 28%) and Poland (41% vs. 21% in 2021).

However, there is an interesting point: Ukraine is placed in the top of unfriendly countries to Russia by 31% of respondents, which is noticeably less (!) than last year's figure of 40%. Suddenly Open / Comment

2022-06-16 10:05:07 The Consumer Confidence Index in the world continues to decline

The Ipsos calculated consumer confidence index continued to decline in June, averaging 47.5 points for all surveyed countries in June compared with 47.6 points in May

The biggest decrease of consumer confidence was registered in the European countries: a record-breaking -3 points in Hungary, -1.4 points in Poland, from -0.1 (Sweden) to -0.6 (France) in the rest of Europe. The situation is deteriorating in Turkey (-1.3 points, and the overall index has already fallen to the level of 28 points) and South Africa (-1.5)

The residents of China (+2.5 points within a month), Saudi Arabia (+1.4 - oh, that expensive oil) and Mexico (+1.1) were more confident about the future. In other countries the growth (of those where the consumer confidence index is growing in principle) is rather symbolic Open / Comment

2022-06-15 19:05:06 Kurgan oblasts: from -13 to -1.8 Open / Comment

2022-06-15 19:05:06 Mortality in Russia in Q1 2022 is almost back to 2021 levels

The national average for Q1 2022 was 16.3 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants - slightly higher than the 16.2 in Q1 2021. However, here we must understand that Q1 2021 is quite a pandemic period, so, strictly speaking, to consider what is happening a "victory over the covid" is strange, to say the least.

In Q1 2020, which can be considered the last pre-pandemic period, there were 12.6 per 1000 inhabitants - and we are still a long way away from these numbers

Mortality rates in a number of regions have increased markedly compared to last year. The leaders were the Jewish Autonomous Region (+3.4 deaths per 1,000 residents), Khakassia (+2.5) and the Irkutsk Region (+2.4). In the Primorye Territory, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Buryatia and Sakhalin, the death rate also grew by 2 or more. In the European part of the country, Adygea (+1.6) and the Vladimir Oblast (+1.5) were the anti-leaders.

The strongest decrease in mortality was recorded in Lipetsk, Novgorod and Open / Comment

2022-06-15 14:05:04 Russian income from oil exports in May 2022

Continuing the oil theme: in May 2022, our country earned $922 million a day from oil exports - up from $661 million a day a year earlier

At the expense of lower oil sales volumes, income fell by $99 million a day, at the expense of a discount to the price of Russian oil to world oil prices - another $105 million. But the growth of these world prices compensates for everything and gives an extra 467 million a day in revenue. As a result, the balance is positive Open / Comment