Sources:

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/debating-defence-budgets-why-military-purchasing-power-parity-matters (Brief explanation of what Military PPP is and why it gives a more accurate picture than nominal defense budgets, for the few Countries the data is obtainable from)

https://databank.worldbank.org/ (GDP, GDP-PPP, Mil. Exp, and Mil. Exp %GDP figures)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354697825_The_Real_Military_Balance_International_Comparisons_of_Defense_Spending

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Think they lost more on Matchday cause of COVID-19 policies. Includes the back half of 2021.

I’ve always heard when it comes to owning big sports clubs, it’s expected to take a loss every year in order to grow the club’s overall value cause they make their money on the sale of the franchise.

It's very odd that Match Day alone posts a not loss.

There's a reason EBITA is a thing. Depreciation and amortization alone account for more than the net loss here.

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Source: https://ir.manutd.com/financial-information/annual-reports/2022.aspx Tool: SankeyMATIC

> Due to different hiring practices, Apple did not do massive layoffs.

Right, they outsource the layoffs to Foxconn.

I would plot the derivative of this (e.g. daily or monthly hospitalizations) to make it easier to see the waves. Cumulative (of course) always goes up monotonically, and you have to visually look for higher-slope times to figure out when things are especially bad.

Growth prospects have varied wildly over the last few years. From things like Covid changing the entire consumer and corporate landscape, to inflation and the Federal Reserve whipsawing interest rates around dramatically, there is little way to predict what is going to happen even in the near future.

If you showed their net hiring since Covid, it would be a drastically different story. Most of these companies still have headcount well above their pre-covid levels.

If I were to do this graphic I would separate but conference and then do color for the winner, but still nice work

Looks good! I’d suggest separating it so one side is AFC and one is NFC. You can quickly tell who won by the color anyways so separating by winner/loser is a bit redundant imo. You’d also be able to compare AFC to NFC much better

almost symmetrical around july 20th 2021

Your first paragraph is simply wrong. The chart looks identical with 9,10 or 11 year moving averages. Data source is there if you want to plot it up yourself.

You can’t see a 22 year year cycle on a 10 year moving average.

A bit weird, isn’t it? It’s like showing how much GM makes by showing what the dealerships make instead of what they make from producing cars.

> It’s a 3652 day moving avg, so that takes care of the leap year.

No, it doesn't.
A 1461 day moving average would. Or a multiple of that.

> Even if it were an issue, and it’s not, it at most could impact it at most a small percent of 1/3652.

A day of difference would be a day of difference. During the fast changing season periods the change is 2x the annual average change. High daily averages top 100k per day. Divide that by 10x and you get 10k per day - against the max variance of 150-200k. That is significant.

> I would be interested to see some data showing a correlation between the solar cycle and global warming metics.

You were looking at it. The northern hemispheric sea ice extent data shows a quite clear 22 year full cycle (or two individual 11-year cycles).

Those are overhyped. They haven't automated the actual cooking - just replaced the cashier with a touchscreen. Fully automated restaurants remain a dream.

Data isn’t right here. Also maybe more fitting for percent of population. Tells a different story than quantity alone.

Of course, that's not the same as the actual profit margin of the restaurant - that's just what McDonald's corporate makes from the franchise vs the costs of what they provide to the franchise.

I'm gonna do it anyway.

There's plenty of that. Almost every article I read about these layoffs points out that companies overestimated demand growth and hired too quickly.

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I like the direct correlation between not getting 8 hours of sleep and having taken a nap that day