US · Sep 12
The U.S. saving rate's post-2022 recovery has nearly fully reversed
The personal saving rate fell to 2.6% in June 2026 — reversing 90% of the post-pandemic recovery — before edging back to 3.0% in July
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Sports
- We read the 15 MLB games ESPN listed as Final for September 11: 3 out-hit their opponents and lost — all 3 hit zero home runsSep 12
- Seattle went 0-for-2 in the red zone and won. Both trips scored.Sep 11
- We read the 15 MLB games ESPN listed for September 9: hits matched the winner 10 times — conversion rate matched 14Sep 10
Travel
- The U.S. and New Zealand rate the same 204 countries for danger. They agree on 153 — and where they split, the U.S. is the stricter one nearly 3 to 1Aug 29
- Nineteen countries the U.S. rates at its two lowest travel-risk tiers each hide a formal 'Do Not Travel' zone — and Georgia, rated at the scale's very lowest, is oneAug 29
- The UK updated 206 of its 226 travel-advice pages on one December day with the same sentence — and for 38 countries it is still the newest changeAug 25
World
- The world's suicide rate fell 14 percent from 2010 to 2021. In 62 economies, it rose.Sep 11
- Bangladesh's average bound tariff at the WTO is 159%. It applied 13% in 2021. It is far from the only economy with that much room.Sep 11
- China's export tally topped India's import count by $16 billion in 2022 — reversing the usual freight-cost expectation.Sep 10
Local
- St Paul's City Council introduced 62 ordinances in 2025 — and 603 property-case matters. One in three items on its 2025 docket wasn't a law; it was a code or tax-assessment hearing.Aug 11
- Nashville's 40-member Metro Council recorded 2,653 agenda actions in 2025 and voted down 3 — every one an edit to its own rulebookAug 11
- Denver's City Council introduced 4.37 resolutions for every bill in 2025 — and read across all 1,654 legislative items, nearly two-thirds carried contract, agreement, or amendment language in their titlesAug 11
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SPORTS · Sep 12
We read the 15 MLB games ESPN listed as Final for September 11: 3 out-hit their opponents and lost — all 3 hit zero home runs
Houston reached base 10 times and scored once. Tampa Bay reached base 6 times and scored 3. Three teams generated more hits — and fewer results.
WORLD · Sep 11
The world's suicide rate fell 14 percent from 2010 to 2021. In 62 economies, it rose.
WHO estimates for 185 economies: the steepest percentage declines were in small former-Soviet states that began far above the world average, while the world's largest populations saw more modest drops.
WORLD · Sep 11
Bangladesh's average bound tariff at the WTO is 159%. It applied 13% in 2021. It is far from the only economy with that much room.
Across 139 economies with comparable World Bank data, the median gap between a country's average bound tariff and its average applied rate was 13 percentage points in 2021; nearly three in five exceed 10 points, and two in five exceed 20 — average headroom the rules leave in principle, though the binding constraint is set line by line.
SPORTS · Sep 11
Seattle went 0-for-2 in the red zone and won. Both trips scored.
New England ran 67 plays, held the ball 34 minutes, and converted the game's only red-zone touchdown — then Drake Maye threw three interceptions on three straight drives.
WORLD · Sep 10
China's export tally topped India's import count by $16 billion in 2022 — reversing the usual freight-cost expectation.
Both countries file to the same UN database, and freight costs usually push the importer's number higher. For four straight years India's ran lower instead; in 2023 the gap flipped back.
WORLD · Sep 10
As the EU cut €59 billion from its Russia exports, its exports to Turkey and Kazakhstan rose €40 billion.
Eurostat bilateral data for Russia and the three transit hubs named in EU circumvention-risk guidance, read together, surfaces what the Russia-only ledger misses.
US · Sep 10
The Fed cut rates 1.7 points. Credit card rates dropped less than half as much.
In February 2026, the gap between the Federal Reserve's benchmark rate and the average credit card rate reached the widest level in all 127 readings published since 1994. Three months later, it had barely moved.
US · Sep 10
Ten of eleven major industries quit at or below their pre-COVID rate in July — mining and logging was the exception
The national quit rate fell to 1.9% in July, from 2.4% in July 2019, and the normalization reached almost every sector. Mining and logging alone ran higher — 2.6%, up from 1.9%, a 37% rise — while professional and business services fell the most, nearly halving to 1.8% from 3.3%.
SPORTS · Sep 10
We read the 15 MLB games ESPN listed for September 9: hits matched the winner 10 times — conversion rate matched 14
In 4 games the team with more hits lost — and in all 4, the winner converted baserunner opportunities into runs at a higher rate.
SPORTS · Sep 10
We read the 45 tight ends with 30-plus targets in 2024: the two highest PPR totals were built on volume, not touchdowns
Brock Bowers and Trey McBride finished first and second in the pool on yards and catches. Mark Andrews finished sixth on 11 touchdowns — and his volume without them ranked him eleventh.
SPORTS · Sep 9
We read the 26 completed games ESPN listed across two days: in 18 of them, the first team to lead was never overtaken
Thirteen finished within one run, yet 18 of 26 saw no lead change — and the 4th inning was scoreless in 45 of 52 half-innings
SPORTS · Sep 8
We ranked the 284 qualifying skill-position players by 2025 PPR: the WR12-WR13 gap was 0.2 points, the QB12-QB13 gap was 30
Across the 284 qualifying players in four positions, the largest rank-12-to-13 step — the last-starter boundary in a standard 12-team single-QB PPR league — belonged to quarterback, not tight end.
US · Sep 8
The government measures the size of the economy two ways — and for 15 straight quarters, the spending count has topped the income count
GDP counts what the country spends; GDI counts what it earns. In theory they are the same number. We read all 318 quarters the government has published since 1947: since late 2022 the spending measure has topped the income measure every quarter — the longest such run since the 1990s — and in the second quarter of 2026 the gap was $240.9 billion.
SPORTS · Sep 8
We computed expected wins for all 30 MLB clubs — the team with zero run differential has 77 wins
Tampa leads the AL East despite a run-margin gap of 70 runs behind the Yankees. Cincinnati is 8 games above what a -108 run differential suggests. A full read of the MLB's own formula, all 30 clubs through September 7.
US · Sep 7
The federal funds rate fell 170 basis points. The 30-year mortgage rose anyway — the data show why.
As of September 3, 2026, mortgage markets had compressed the spread over Treasuries by 37 basis points since the first rate cut — even as the 10-year Treasury rose 99.
SPORTS · Sep 6
We read all 13 completed September 5 MLS games: the shots-on-target leader won 4 of 7 decided — the Galaxy won with 3
47 goals, 136 shots on target across 13 completed games — and in 3 of 7 decided, finishing rate beat volume
WORLD · Sep 6
A global goal aimed to halve anemia in women by 2025. By 2023, not one of 192 economies had cut its rate in half.
In 2012 the World Health Assembly adopted a collective target — a 50% cut in anemia among women of reproductive age. Country by country, WHO's modeled estimates through 2023 show how far the world sits from it.
US · Sep 6
Revolving credit fell year-over-year for 12 straight months through November 2025 — without a recession
After growing 27.6 percent from January 2022 to June 2024, outstanding revolving credit fell year-over-year for twelve straight months. The Federal Reserve's G.19 series, read month by month, shows what a single quarterly snapshot misses.
US · Sep 5
The robotaxi thread promised 20-cent miles. We pulled two Austin receipts: about $2.80 a mile.
A viral post says ownership, parking, tickets, insurance and snow plows all disappear in 10-15 years. The 20-cents-a-mile at its center is a 2024 Musk projection. The fleet furthest along of those tracked here costs an estimated $1.40/mile to run, and two Austin receipts read roughly $2.80.
SPORTS · Sep 5
We read all 15 September 2 MLB games: 5 went to extras — and every one was tied through nine
September 2 ran at 3.8× the season's extra-inning rate. Four of the five games were already knotted before the ninth began. Away teams went 4-1 when the innings kept coming.
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