2025-11-10 18:36:34
Melissa was the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and the country was not prepared. Bloomberg has maps and satellite imagery showing the scale of destruction.
Chuck Watson, a disaster modeler at Enki Research, estimates economic losses at almost $7.7 billion, or about 39% of the island’s gross domestic product.
Tags: Bloomberg, Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica, satellite imagery
2025-11-10 18:29:36
For the New York Tiems, Jacqueline Gu and Cade Metz break down the circular deals between OpenAI and a network of companies.
Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services.
Industry experts and financial analysts have welcomed the start-up’s creativity. But these unorthodox arrangements have also fueled concerns that OpenAI is helping to inflate a potential financial bubble as it builds what is still a highly speculative technology.
See also the Bloomberg version that shows more at once between the major companies. It seems more links will be added to these networks in the near future. Who knows how many will still be around in a few years.
Tags: finance, New York Times, OpenAI
2025-11-08 01:45:32
China’s exports unexpectedly contracted in October as global demand failed to offset the deepening slump in shipments to the US, dealing a blow to an economy already slowing amid sluggish consumer spending and investment at home.
Exports fell for the first time in eight months, dropping 1.1% from a year earlier, according to official data released Friday. Shipments to all nations except the US rose 3.1%, not enough to compensate for the more than 25% decline to America.
I mostly put this here to contrast with the post from earlier this week about how Chinese exports have grown. The growth is based on quarterly data and this Bloomberg chart on a drop is based on monthly data. Neither are wrong. They just use different angles.
2025-11-07 16:18:24
Jer Thorp visualized 10,151 species of birds as feathers, with colors based on specifications extracted from Wikipedia.
This would look great as a big poster on your wall. Thorp also made versions with just hummingbirds, parrots, and passerines.
2025-11-07 02:25:36
At the beginning of this year, most people probably had little awareness or had even heard of tariffs. That changed quickly with the start of the current administration. For the New York Times, Lazaro Gamio, Keith Collins, and Ana Swanson show the big shifts, which have varied widely by country.
The layers in the series of stacked area charts are mostly minding their own business pre-inauguration, and then suddenly they are not.
Tags: New York Times, tariff, trade
2025-11-06 22:54:26
The U.S. is buying a lot less from China this year, but China has found more business just about everywhere else in the world. For the New York Times, Agnes Chang and Daisuke Wakabayashi have the charts.
China has offset the decline from America with breathtaking speed. Shipments to other parts of the world have surged this year, demonstrating that China’s manufacturing dominance will not be easily slowed. Chinese exports are on track to reach another record this year.
That’s because China was prepared. It has been seeking out new customers for years, and its massive manufacturing investment allows it to sell goods at low prices.
