Cost and affordability of plant-based diets: global evidence from 2000 to 2025 Plant-based diets (PBDs) offer substantial health and environmental benefits. However, their adoption remains limited, partly due to perceived high costs. This narrative review synthesizes current evi...

Plant-based diets (PBDs) are often seen as expensive. Yet, a new #review finds that whole-food PBDs are linked to lower food expenditures than omnivorous diets because dropping expensive animal products drives costs down: www.doi.org/10.20935/Aca... #PlantBased #Diets #Costs #Expenditures #Meat >>

Credit to @capetok for this meme with a simple but pertinent question, viz.: "If all humans suddenly lost the ability to lie, what industry would collapse first?" The answer could be found in the likes of tRump, Netanyahu, Shinawatra and Putain.

What is worse than being told a #lie? Being told a #badlie
"how much of te ~THB70mil was necessary after te #SocialSecurity Ofc already reportedly devoted >THB800mil to launching an online application tt was supposed to connect users directly to their […]

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2 Bloomberg: Today, #Oracle and many other #artificialintelligence companies are facing a wave of skepticism due to heavy #capital #expenditures and the #circular nature of some arrangements. 🧵

3 Bloomberg: #Alphabet, #Amazon, #Meta Platforms and #Microsoft are expected to devote more than $380 billion combined to #capital #expenditures in their current fiscal years, with most going to #chips, #servers and other #datacenter expenses. 🧵

ARL Statistics 2024 Publications Describe Resources, Services of Member Libraries — Association of Research Libraries The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 2024, ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2024, and ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2024. These three publi...

📊Just published #ARLStatistics 2024, ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2024 & ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2024! These pubs present #data on #collections, #expenditures, #staffing, and #services of member #libraries in 2024. www.arl.org/news/arl-sta... #ARLupdates #ARLresources

How Trump's MAGA movement helped a 29-year-old activist become a millionaire Charlie Kirk’s $4.75 million estate is tucked away in a gated Arizona country club that charges nearly a half-million dollars for a golf membership.

#spending lavishly
#Kirk wedding reception
also billed as 9th anniversary celebration and fundraiser
#TPUSA
travel first-class or by charter plane
#expenditures defy easy explanation
Clocktower LLC, Nicholas R. Miller
tax avoidance strategies
Pursuit Ventures, #DTJ books
John #McEntee
Jake #Hoffman

How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the US Economy The Three Americas and aspirational displacement

“The #Magnificent7 have spent ‘more than $100 billion on #datacenters in the last three months alone” and ‘Morgan Stanley estimates that #capital #expenditures on #AI could exceed $3 trillion in the next three years’ according to Bloomberg.” open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/h...

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Important #update (by Jennifer L. Matjasko, PhD; Zhuo Chen, PhD; Geoffrey P. Whitfield, PhD; et al) on estimates of #healthcare #expenditures associated with #inadequate leisure-time #aerobic #physical #activity in a sample of noninstitutionalized U.S. adults. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

2 Desjardins: “However, the planned substantial increase in #defence #expenditures comes against the backdrop of similar plans among other #NATO members. With central #government #debtissuance expected to ratchet up globally over the next decade, notably in the US …” 🧵
#Canada #cdnecon #cdnpoli

A StatsCan chart of quarterly changes in real GDP and real final domestic demand showing the latter was flat in Q1 of 2025.

StatsCan: In the first quarter, #finaldomesticdemand, which represents total final #consumption #expenditures and #investment in #fixedcapital, did not increase for the first time since the end of 2023. #cdnecon #GDP #growth

Core inflation in February hits 2.8%, higher than expected; spending increases 0.4% The PCE price index was expected to increase 0.3% in February while spending was projected to rise 0.5%.

The core personal #consumption #expenditures price index, a key #Fed #inflation measure, showed a 0.4% increase in February, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.8%, both higher than expected. cnb.cx/3Y3nzMc #TrumpTariffs #TradeWars #TrumpChaos #Economy

Tesla has $1.4 billion that seems to have gone astray, potentially raising questions about the company’s controls Accounting experts say there are plausible explanations for the discrepancy as Elon Musk tries to rally the EV giant.

#Tesla is making big bets on #AI, but #investors might have a reason to question where the money is going. If left unexplained, a $1.4 billion discrepancy between the firm’s capital #expenditures and the #valuation of the assets that cash was spent on. finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-1...

but shouldn't #Congress tax the #OnePercent the cover the increased #expenditures? 😜

Health Expenditures of Patients With Diabetes After Bariatric Surgery: Comparing Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy | Annals of Internal Medicine Background: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) differ in their effects on body weight and risk for reoperation. However, it is unclear whether long-term health expenditures di...

En pac c/diabetes sometidos a derivación gástrica o gastrectomía en manga los gastos disminuyen en el postoperatorio, principalmente por reducciones en gastos de farmacia, sin diferencias excepto los prim 6m desp de la cirugía #surgery. #bariatric #expenditures www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

UNC $1.55B in sponsored research conducted annually

By the Numbers: $1.55B in sponsored research conducted annually at UNC Chapel Hill!
#UNCResearch #mondaymotivation #research #funding #expenditures #research #impact
go.unc.edu/o8EQw

In case you were wondering- and we know you were

Here are the countries that have donated the most military hardware to Ukraine

#unitedstates #charts #graphs #numbers #stats #datanerd #military #expenditures #donation #ukraine #militaryfunding #hardware #dataviz #datavisualization #barchart

The U.S. spends at least 18% of its #GDP ($3.35 trillion) on #health #expenditures. If costs continue to rise, by 2050, #Medicare and #Medicaid alone will account for 20% of the GDP. All projections point to continued rises in chronic disease. Let’s #reverse this #trend. Make #FoodIsMedicine

The response of public education spending to changes in student cohort sizes In this paper, we study the elasticity of educational spending with respect to changing student numbers, in a system where educational spending is autonomously determined at a regional level. While...

New publication in Education Economics on #school #finance.

School #cohort sizes vary from year to year, for example due to the ageing of society or due to immigration. But how do school #expenditures respond to these fluctuations?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I forgot the ashtag!
The thread is ⬆️

#EconSky📈📉
#BMI #Lifetime #Expenditures