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The Walt Disney Company reported that Disney+ had 137.7 million subscribers worldwide as of its second quarter of 2022. This marks a growth in the service's subscriber base of more than 100 million since the start of the fiscal year of 2020. The service launched in November 2019 and by the company's first fiscal quarter of 2020 had already amassed more than 26.5 million subscribers.
Container freight rates increased dramatically between January 2019 and April 2022. The year 2021 saw an especially steep increase in global freight rates, reaching a record price of nearly 10,400 U.S. dollars in September 2021. In April 2022, the global freight rate index stood at about 7,800 U.S. dollars.
How did we get here?
The global supply chain is a fragile system consisting of numerous links and disruption to one can send cascading effects down the chain. that need to function properly for the whole system to work. The COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be an event of such a magnitude to either bring to halt whole industries and supply chains, or severely reduce their efficiency. Due to its complexity and transcontinental nature, container shipping was hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic, the shipping industry has had to struggle with port closures and congestions, labor shortages, difficulties with capacity utilization, as well as a lack of new shipping containers.
Container carriers profiting
While costs of operating a container fleet have increased, the surge in freight rates has not served just to cover rising expenses. Container ship operators have been reporting record-high operating profit margins since the beginning of the pandemic. In the third quarter of 2021, main container shipping companies had an average profit margin of over 56 percent, up from about 8.5 percent a year earlier. Some of the carriers are using these profits to increase their carrying capacity by buying new containers and ordering new container ships. However, delivering newly ordered ships is still years away.
Cristiano Ronaldo has one of the most popular Instagram accounts as of May 2022. He is the most-followed person on the photo sharing app platform with 440.41 million followers. Instagram's own account was ranked first with roughly 504 million followers.
How popular is Instagram?
Instagram is a photo-sharing social networking service that enables users to take pictures and edit them with filters. The platform allows users to post and share their images online and directly with their friends and followers on the social network. The cross-platform app rached one billion monthly active users in mid-2018. In 2020, there were over 114 million Instagram users in the United States and experts project this figure to surpass 127 million users in 2023.
Who uses Instagram?
Instagram audiences are predominantly young – recent data states that almost 60 percent of U.S. Instagram users are aged 34 years or younger. Fall 2020 data reveals that Instagram is also one of the most popular social media for teens and one of the social networks with the biggest reach among teens in the United States.
Celebrity influencers on Instagram
Many celebrities and athletes are brand spokespeople and generate additional income with social media advertising and sponsored content. Unsurprisingly, Ronaldo ranked first again, as the average media value of one of his Instagram posts was 985,441 U.S. dollars.
In May 2022, the value of a single LUNA declined by over 50 percent per day, as prices fell significantly from one day to the next. This is a significant difference from earlier in the year, when the price of the Luna token within the Terra network grew by roughly 100 percent between January and March 2022. This popularity was reflected in a ranking covering the world's most traded cryptocurrencies - where the relatively young crypto shows in the top 10. The popularity of Terra and its cryptocurrencies LUNA and UST (TerraUSD) comes from its role in crypto lending and the interest rates promised by lending platform Anchor Protocol, a platform built off the Terra network.
Between 1982 and May 2022, 68 out of the 127 mass shootings in the United States were carried out by white shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was African American in 21 mass shootings, and Latino in 10. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 53 percent, 16 percent, and eight percent respectively.
Race of mass shooters reflects the U.S. population
Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole. While a superficial comparison of the statistics seems to suggest African American shooters are over-represented and Latino shooters underrepresented, the fact that the shooter’s race is unclear in around 10 percent of cases, along with the different time frames over which these statistics are calculated, means no such conclusions should be drawn. Conversely, looking at the mass shootings in the United States by gender clearly demonstrates that the majority of mass shootings are carried out by men.
Mass shootings and mental health
With no clear patterns between the socio-economic or cultural background of mass shooters, increasing attention has been placed on mental health. Analysis of the factors Americans considered to be to blame for mass shootings showed 80 percent of people felt the inability of the mental health system to recognize those who pose a danger to others was a significant factor. This concern is not without merit – in over half of the mass shootings since 1982, the shooter showed prior signs of mental health issues, suggesting improved mental health services may help deal with this horrific problem.
Mass shootings and guns
In the wake of multiple mass shootings, critics have sought to look beyond the issues of shooter identification and their influences by focusing on their access to guns. The study mentioned above showed 61 percent of Americans felt the easy access to firearms was to blame by either a “great deal” or a “fair amount” for mass shootings. Gun control takes on a particular significance when the uniquely American phenomenon of school shootings is considered. The annual number of incidents involving firearms at K-12 schools in the U.S. was over 100 in each year since 2018. Conversely, similar incidents in other developed countries exceptionally rare, with only five school shootings in G7 countries other than the U.S. between 2009 and 2018.
Among major international enterprises suspending operations in Russia or completely exiting the market due to the invasion of Ukraine, the British energy company BP reported the highest estimated losses from the withdrawal, at 24 billion U.S. dollars. The associated losses of another energy company, the U.S.-headquartered Exxon, exceeded three billion U.S. dollars. In the banking sector, French Société Générale was expected to bear a cost of 3.7 billion U.S. dollars in write-downs, credit provisions, and trading losses.
In the 2021 C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership, Abraham Lincoln was chosen as the country's top ranked president for the fourth time in a row. This is the fourth survey of its kind; the first was conducted in 2000, during Bill Clinton's final year in office, while the subsequent three surveys were held in the years after each respective president left office. Compared to the previous survey, the top nine presidents have remained in the same positions, while Barack Obama moved up from 12th place in 2017 to round out the top 10 in 2021. The bottom three presidents also remained unchanged from previous surveys, and were Abraham Lincoln's two predecessors and successor, ranked so low due to their perceived failures before and after the American Civil War.
Criteria
A total of 142 experts took part in this survey, and were asked to rank each president on a scale of one (not effective) to ten (very effective) across ten different qualities. Scores in each area were then converted to an average value out of 100, and combined to give a total score out of 1,000. Generally, there was a strong correlation across the board in each area, for example, Lincoln ranked among the top four in each individual area, while Buchanan was in the bottom three of each. Despite this, there was some deviation; Lyndon Johnson was ranked second in the category Pursued Equal Justice For All, but 39th in International Relations. There has also been deviation over time, such as Woodrow Wilson falling from sixth place overall in 2000, to 13th place in 2021, or Ulysses S. Grant moving up from 33rd to 20th over the same period, as perceptions of past presidents' performances are revised over time.
Donald Trump
The most recent president, Donald Trump, made his first appearance at number 41 on the list, out of a total of 44 entries (Grover Cleveland is generally viewed as the 22nd and 24th president, but has been included once here). In the individual criteria, Trump was ranked last in both Moral Authority and Administrative Skills, whereas Public Persuasion was the only area where he did not feature in the bottom quartile.
As a result of market disruption, gasoline and diesel prices in the U.S. have been significantly increasing since the onset of the war in Ukraine. On March 6, the price of regular gasoline soared over four U.S. dollars, and, as of March 10, the average price of diesel inflated over five U.S. dollars. By the 3rd of May, the price of diesel had increased by 0.05 U.S. dollars day-over-day. March 11 was the highest recorded average regular gasoline price in the country.
A period of price instability
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, and, in response to the resulting conflict, Western countries have imposed economic sanctions against Russia. On March 8, the U.S. banned Russian crude oil imports; however, despite gas and crude oil embargoes being forecast as hitting Russia the hardest, most European countries have not yet put embargoes on the trade of energy. As the war lengthens and international relations between the West and Russia further deteriorate, uncertainty over the supply of oil and gas is increasing, and the price of motor fuels may continue to rise.
Russia is the third largest crude oil-producing country worldwide, representing around 12.1 percent of the total output in 2020; that same year, Russia was the second-largest exporter of crude oil, with reported revenue of around 72.6 billion U.S. dollars. As sanctions strengthen, Russia's leading position in the global crude oil market creates the conditions for a continued increase in crude oil prices and, by extension, gasoline prices in countries depending on its exports.
The U.S.'s dependence on Russian crude oil
In 2021, one of the leading countries of origin for U.S. petroleum imports was Russia, behind only Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. However, due to the U.S.’s increase in national production through hydraulic fracking, this was not a record year for finished motor gasoline imports to the United States. The leading oil and gas companies in the country are U.S.-based, with most extraction operations conducted in the region.
The U.S.'s dependence on Russian crude oil is relative, and the increase of regular gasoline and diesel prices was pre-existing: Monthly gas prices in the United States have been steadily rising across all types through 2021 and 2022, due to the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on crude oil prices. However, the war in Ukraine adds another layer of uncertainty in a market that cannot be protected from price disruption. Even with adequate physical supply and self-reliance, inflation is tipped to gain steam in the following weeks.
This statistic shows the soccer clubs with the most UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League titles from its inaugural season in 1971 to 2022. In 2020, Sevilla FC won the Europa League for a record sixth time.
In financial year 2022, digital payments in India reached a total of over 239 billion Indian rupees. This marks a significant increase from 20.7 billion Indian rupees in financial year 2018. Among the cashless payment options the mobile payment app BHIM (Bharat Interface For Money) overtook debit card payments since 2018. The value of BHIM transactions and debit card transactions increased significantly between 2018 and 2022.
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