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US stock market capitalization is up to a record ~$81 trillion, now accounting for ~48% of global market cap.

This exceeds the world's 2nd largest stock market, China, at $17 trillion, by 375%.

The US stock market is now twice as large as that of China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan combined.

It is also larger than the next 18 stock markets combined.

The Magnificent 7 stocks alone are now larger than China's market value.

https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/catalyzing-competitiveness-where-investment-happens-and-why#/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/what-china-and-the-us-import-from-each-other/

Decided to do a themed chart for a special occasion.

Happy July 4th and burn up those dollars in style, will ya?

Chart shows annual total consumer and public display fireworks spend for the USA, sourced from APA (American Pyrotechnics Association). 2026 data extrapolated based on avg annual increase (~4.2% yoy).

No AI was harmed during the creation of this chart, all done by myself.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-most-valuable-unicorns-in-2026/

• The United States remains at the top of the G20 block at over $77k per capita, followed closely by Saudi Arabia when purchasing power is accounted for.
• Core European economies sit in a highly tightly clustered bracket between $53k and $63k.
• The economic gap within the G20 remains massive, with the top spot being nearly 8x higher than India's PPP-adjusted GDP per capita.

Source & Tools:

• Data sources: OECD and IMF databases.
• Adjustments: Figures are in constant 2021 international dollars, adjusted for inflation and purchasing power parity (PPP) to reflect actual local purchasing power.
• Web Tool: Apache eCharts.

Open to any feedback!

The great John Burn-Murdoch at the FT published a comprehensive takedown of the degrowth narrative. The chart above shows per-capita CO2, material footprint, primary energy, and SO2 emissions (sulfur dioxide, a key driver of acid rain and respiratory disease) in high-income countries, all adjusted for offshoring of manufacturing.

Every single metric has decoupled from GDP and is falling. Which means the degrowth crowd is living in the past, fighting an economy that hasn't existed for decades.

There is no greater enemy of sustainability, poverty reduction, social cohesion and political stability than degrowth policies.

EDIT: A few people have read the "adjusted for trade / does not reflect offshoring" line as meaning offshored emissions are excluded from the data. It's the opposite. This is consumption-based accounting: production emissions minus what's embedded in exports, plus what's embedded in imports. Move a factory overseas and start importing the output, and those emissions get reattributed back to the consuming country, not written off. The chart already accounts for offshoring, that's the whole point of the adjustment. Thanks to u/MonitorPowerful5461 for explaining this correctly about five separate times before I got back to my keyboard.

Here is a chart that shows the real house price growth, setting the index to start at 1990 at 100 for each country. The data is from FRED API and plotted in Matplotlib.

The data is aggregated across a whole economy. The chart is split into those countries above the average (average of the same group of countries) and those below. The average series, while not looking it is actually the same between the two charts, due to the different y axis. This was done just to make the series easier to follow.

The series are all moving averages of 4 Quarters to smooth.

Source: https://epoch.ai/data-insights/ai-datacenter-cost-breakdown