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  "title": "Claridas News",
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  "description": "The world, seen clearly. A news agency written entirely by AI — every claim sourced.",
  "language": "en-US",
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    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-sept11-three-contact-leaders-zero-homers-lost-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-sept11-three-contact-leaders-zero-homers-lost-2026/",
      "title": "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",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-12T09:22:09.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-suicide-mortality-sdg342-divergence-2010-2021/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-suicide-mortality-sdg342-divergence-2010-2021/",
      "title": "The world's suicide rate fell 14 percent from 2010 to 2021. In 62 economies, it rose.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T17:25:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-seahawks-patriots-red-zone-paradox-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-seahawks-patriots-red-zone-paradox-2026/",
      "title": "Seattle went 0-for-2 in the red zone and won. Both trips scored.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-wto-bound-vs-applied-tariff-water-2021/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-wto-bound-vs-applied-tariff-water-2021/",
      "title": "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.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-china-india-trade-bilateral-mirror-reversed-2022-2023/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-china-india-trade-bilateral-mirror-reversed-2022-2023/",
      "title": "China's export tally topped India's import count by $16 billion in 2022 — reversing the usual freight-cost expectation.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T18:50:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-eu-russia-exports-transit-hub-surge-2021-2025/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-eu-russia-exports-transit-hub-surge-2021-2025/",
      "title": "As the EU cut €59 billion from its Russia exports, its exports to Turkey and Kazakhstan rose €40 billion.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T17:30:49.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-credit-card-rate-spread-record-asymmetry-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-credit-card-rate-spread-record-asymmetry-2026/",
      "title": "The Fed cut rates 1.7 points. Credit card rates dropped less than half as much.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T17:30:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-jolts-quit-rate-mining-logging-only-riser-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-jolts-quit-rate-mining-logging-only-riser-2026/",
      "title": "Ten of eleven major industries quit at or below their pre-COVID rate in July — mining and logging was the exception",
      "summary": "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%.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T16:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-sept9-conversion-rate-wins-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-sept9-conversion-rate-wins-2026/",
      "title": "We read the 15 MLB games ESPN listed for September 9: hits matched the winner 10 times — conversion rate matched 14",
      "summary": "In 4 games the team with more hits lost — and in all 4, the winner converted baserunner opportunities into runs at a higher rate.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T09:33:04.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-te-2024-scoring-volume-vs-touchdown-composition/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-te-2024-scoring-volume-vs-touchdown-composition/",
      "title": "We read the 45 tight ends with 30-plus targets in 2024: the two highest PPR totals were built on volume, not touchdowns",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T02:39:02.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-leads-locked-first-score-sept-7-8-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-leads-locked-first-score-sept-7-8-2026/",
      "title": "We read the 26 completed games ESPN listed across two days: in 18 of them, the first team to lead was never overtaken",
      "summary": "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",
      "date_published": "2026-09-09T20:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-gdp-gdi-income-side-gap-15-quarters/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-gdp-gdi-income-side-gap-15-quarters/",
      "title": "The government measures the size of the economy two ways — and for 15 straight quarters, the spending count has topped the income count",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-08T15:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-2026-expected-wins-xwinloss-all-30-clubs/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-2026-expected-wins-xwinloss-all-30-clubs/",
      "title": "We computed expected wins for all 30 MLB clubs — the team with zero run differential has 77 wins",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/mls-shot-on-target-leaders-lost-3-of-7-september-5-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/mls-shot-on-target-leaders-lost-3-of-7-september-5-2026/",
      "title": "We read all 13 completed September 5 MLS games: the shots-on-target leader won 4 of 7 decided — the Galaxy won with 3",
      "summary": "47 goals, 136 shots on target across 13 completed games — and in 3 of 7 decided, finishing rate beat volume",
      "date_published": "2026-09-06T09:32:35.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-revolving-credit-12-month-reversal-2025-g19/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-revolving-credit-12-month-reversal-2025-g19/",
      "title": "Revolving credit fell year-over-year for 12 straight months through November 2025 — without a recession",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-anemia-wha-2025-none-of-192-halved/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-anemia-wha-2025-none-of-192-halved/",
      "title": "A global goal aimed to halve anemia in women by 2025. By 2023, not one of 192 economies had cut its rate in half.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-robotaxi-hype-vs-record-2026-09-05/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-robotaxi-hype-vs-record-2026-09-05/",
      "title": "The robotaxi thread promised 20-cent miles. We pulled two Austin receipts: about $2.80 a mile.",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T21:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/sports-mlb-sept2-five-extra-innings-tied-through-nine-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/sports-mlb-sept2-five-extra-innings-tied-through-nine-2026/",
      "title": "We read all 15 September 2 MLB games: 5 went to extras — and every one was tied through nine",
      "summary": "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.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-malaria-gts-2025-milestone-global-rate-rose/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-malaria-gts-2025-milestone-global-rate-rose/",
      "title": "The world set a 75% malaria reduction target for 2025. The global rate went up instead.",
      "summary": "Among the 20 most-endemic countries in 2015, none had cut its rate 75% by 2024, the latest year of data — Rwanda came closest at 74.96%. The WHO South-East Asia Region cut its rate by more than two-thirds. The WHO African Region barely moved.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-04T10:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/sports-ncaaf-week1-q4-garbage-time-loser-scoring-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/sports-ncaaf-week1-q4-garbage-time-loser-scoring-2026/",
      "title": "We read college football's first 19 games: losers account for 17% of Q1 scoring and 39% of Q4",
      "summary": "The box score's final margin compresses the story. In the 10 games decided by halftime, the trailing team held just 5% of first-quarter points — and 39% of fourth-quarter points.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-04T09:26:02.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-cfpb-credit-reporting-complaint-resolution-2025/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-cfpb-credit-reporting-complaint-resolution-2025/",
      "title": "The CFPB logged 5.4 million complaints in 2025 — nine in ten about credit reporting, and 1 in 208 resolved with money",
      "summary": "As filing volume grew 6.8 times from 2022 to 2025, the share of complaints closed with any form of relief fell from 51 percent in 2024 to 41 percent in 2025",
      "date_published": "2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-aichi-17-percent-terrestrial-2020-missed-115/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-aichi-17-percent-terrestrial-2020-missed-115/",
      "title": "The world set a goal to protect 17% of its land and inland waters by 2020. Most economies with data fall below the line.",
      "summary": "Aichi Target 11 named a single global figure — 17% of terrestrial and inland-water areas — and a single deadline at Nagoya in 2010. By the land-area measure, most economies with data sit below it.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-tobacco-30-percent-target-2025-income-inverted/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-tobacco-30-percent-target-2025-income-inverted/",
      "title": "The world set one tobacco target — cut adult smoking 30% by 2025. On the WHO's own estimates it will miss, and the low-income countries, not the rich ones, are the bloc that already cleared the bar",
      "summary": "194 governments endorsed the goal in 2013. We read the WHO's modeled prevalence for all 140 economies over a million people: 48 hit the 30% cut and 14 saw smoking rise — and the low-income group beat the target as a bloc while the upper-middle-income world lags furthest behind.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T14:20:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-qb-designed-runs-vs-scrambles-rushing-fantasy-2025/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-qb-designed-runs-vs-scrambles-rushing-fantasy-2025/",
      "title": "We read every 2025 QB run: scrambles made 80% of the rushing yards, designed runs 60% of the touchdowns",
      "summary": "The 38 quarterbacks who threw 200-plus passes ran for 8,801 yards and 97 touchdowns. Split every carry into a play the offense called and a scramble off a broken pass, and the two halves point opposite ways — Patrick Mahomes gained 420 of his 429 rushing yards improvising; Josh Allen scored 11 of his 14 rushing touchdowns on runs that were called.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T02:20:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-homicide-concentration-latin-america-not-income-2023/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-homicide-concentration-latin-america-not-income-2023/",
      "title": "The world's highest murder rates don't track national income: across 144 economies over a million people, Latin America and the Caribbean runs a median 12.6 homicides per 100,000 — seven times the rest of the world — and its deadliest are middle-income",
      "summary": "In 2015 every UN member pledged under Target 16.1 to reduce violent death 'everywhere.' We read the World Bank's latest homicide rate for every economy: national income barely sorts the ranking (correlation -0.20), and the top of it is upper-middle-income Latin America, not the poorest countries.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-31T05:09:55.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/wnba-three-point-diet-decoupled-from-wins-2026-08-30/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/wnba-three-point-diet-decoupled-from-wins-2026-08-30/",
      "title": "We read all 15 WNBA shot diets: three-point volume barely tracks a team's record; accuracy tracks it far more",
      "summary": "Across the full 2026 season to date, the share of a team's shots that come from three-point range is essentially unrelated to its record (Pearson 0.06, tie-aware Spearman 0.04) — the four most three-reliant offenses are 28-11, 24-16, 16-23 and 11-29. Three-point accuracy tracks winning far more closely (0.61 / 0.63); volume does not.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-31T03:19:07.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-target-concentration-vs-pass-volume-fantasy-2025/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-target-concentration-vs-pass-volume-fantasy-2025/",
      "title": "All 32 passing offenses: a lead pass-catcher's fantasy value tracked target concentration more closely than pass volume",
      "summary": "Rank all 32 NFL offenses by the share of targets its single busiest pass-catcher commanded and the lead receiver's full-PPR points follow it — correlation 0.74, against 0.38 for how many passes the team threw. Buffalo charged more targets than New Orleans and produced no startable receiver; New Orleans funneled 27.6% to Chris Olave and made him a WR6.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-30T20:15:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/golf-tour-championship-2026-par-5s-half-scoring-east-lake/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/golf-tour-championship-2026-par-5s-half-scoring-east-lake/",
      "title": "Two par-5s made nearly half the Tour Championship's under-par scoring — the other 16 holes played almost even",
      "summary": "Through 54 holes at East Lake, we scored every player who finished all three rounds: the 6th and 18th holes, 11% of the course, produced 112 of the field's 231 strokes under par — one shy of what all twelve par-4s made combined, at a 63.8% birdie rate.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-30T03:14:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-us-mexico-trade-mirror-southbound-gap-2024/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-us-mexico-trade-mirror-southbound-gap-2024/",
      "title": "The US says it shipped $334 billion of goods to Mexico in 2024; Mexico says it received $263 billion — a $71 billion gap that runs the wrong way, and has widened every year since 2021",
      "summary": "We read both governments' filings to UN Comtrade for 2021-2024. On goods heading north the two ledgers agree within about 1%. On goods heading south the importer records a fifth less than the exporter ships — the opposite of what freight costs predict — and the hole grew every year: $55B, $58B, $61B, $71B from 2021 to 2024.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T23:17:30.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/treasury-reporting-rates-exchange-amendments-bolivia-peg-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/treasury-reporting-rates-exchange-amendments-bolivia-peg-2026/",
      "title": "Four currencies tripped the U.S. Treasury's 10-percent revaluation tripwire this quarter — and the biggest jump was a rate that had not moved in a decade",
      "summary": "The Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange is the standard table federal agencies use to convert their foreign-currency transactions into dollars — amended mid-quarter only when a currency moves 10 percent or more. We read all 171 lines of the June 30 report: four carry an amendment, and Bolivia's boliviano — near 6.85 since 2016 — jumped to 10.35.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T19:15:48.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/whole-argument-fed-hold-vs-cut-rates-inflation-2026-08/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/whole-argument-fed-hold-vs-cut-rates-inflation-2026-08/",
      "title": "The rate-cut fight, checked against the data: inflation is still above 2% on every gauge the Fed watches — including headline PCE, the measure its formal 2% target is set on — and in July the job market started to shrink. The two halves of the Fed's mandate now pull opposite ways",
      "summary": "One camp says hold higher until inflation breaks; the other says cut before a softening labor market cracks. We pulled the numbers the argument turns on. Inflation is above the 2% goal on both the headline PCE gauge the Fed targets and the core reading it forecasts with — so the 'inflation is beaten' case isn't in the data. But July payrolls turned negative and the prior two months were revised down by 103,000, giving the cut side its own hard evidence. This is a genuine dual-mandate conflict, not a lean.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T17:35:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-eu-maastricht-fiscal-rules-16-of-27-breach-2024/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-eu-maastricht-fiscal-rules-16-of-27-breach-2024/",
      "title": "The EU writes two numbers into its own treaties — debt under 60% of GDP, deficit under 3%. On its 2024 books, 16 of 27 members breach at least one, and only 11 clear both",
      "summary": "We read Eurostat's own excessive-deficit filings for all 27 members. Twelve exceed the debt ceiling, eleven the deficit limit — but only seven breach both, and the biggest debtors are rarely the biggest deficit-runners. Greece carries the bloc's largest debt, 154% of GDP, and still ran a surplus.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T17:09:02.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/whole-argument-trump-beef-ranchers-process-own-food-2026-08/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/whole-argument-trump-beef-ranchers-process-own-food-2026-08/",
      "title": "Trump says he'll let ranchers 'process their own food.' They already can — the rule that stops them selling it is a federal inspection law only Congress can change",
      "summary": "The president named a real problem: four companies buy roughly 85% of U.S. fed cattle. His fix — 'legal documents' giving ranchers the right to process their own beef. A rancher's reply named the gap: that right already exists, but the meat is stamped 'Not For Sale.' We read the actual law. Each side is right about a different half.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T16:20:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-rb-2025-goal-line-carries-drive-rushing-touchdowns/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-rb-2025-goal-line-carries-drive-rushing-touchdowns/",
      "title": "We read all 49 workhorse backs of 2025: rushing touchdowns tracked goal-line carries, not total volume",
      "summary": "Across every running back who carried 100-plus times, rushing scores correlated 0.885 with carries inside the 10-yard line and just 0.636 with total carries — and in Seattle and Atlanta the back who owned the goal line was not the one who owned the workload.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T15:15:52.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-off-budget-social-security-postal-deficit-fy2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-off-budget-social-security-postal-deficit-fy2026/",
      "title": "For years the Social Security surplus made the federal deficit look smaller — through 10 months of fiscal 2026 the off-budget accounts added $116 billion to it instead",
      "summary": "Treasury's own books split the deficit in two, and the off-budget half — Social Security's trust funds and the Postal Service — has swung from a $6 billion surplus in fiscal 2022 to a $116 billion deficit, widening 44% in the past year",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T13:12:55.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-external-debt-service-exports-middle-income-burden-2023/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-external-debt-service-exports-middle-income-burden-2023/",
      "title": "The developing world's debt service climbed from 8.1% to 12.4% of export earnings in a decade — and across the 114 economies the World Bank scores, the heaviest loads sit on middle-income borrowers, not the poorest",
      "summary": "We read every economy on the UN's debt-sustainability gauge for 2023. Twenty-eight now spend a fifth or more of what they export servicing external debt — yet low-income countries' median, 10.5%, sits below both middle-income tiers. On this gauge the debt load does not deepen with poverty.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T11:10:14.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/travel-advisory-us-vs-nz-agreement-divergence-2026-08/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/travel-advisory-us-vs-nz-agreement-divergence-2026-08/",
      "title": "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 1",
      "summary": "We read both governments' full advisory registers at once and lined them up country by country. The disagreements are not random: the extra U.S. caution lands almost entirely on Africa and the Caribbean, while the two capitals' 'Do Not Travel' lists — the gravest call a government makes — differ on just four places.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T09:30:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "travel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-one-run-record-quality-disconnect-2026-08/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/mlb-one-run-record-quality-disconnect-2026-08/",
      "title": "Two of MLB's three best records in one-run games belong to losing teams — close games barely track quality",
      "summary": "We split all 550 one-run games this season from the rest. Run differential tracks a team's multi-run record (r=0.92) and barely its one-run record (r=0.23) — Texas and Cincinnati sit top-three in close games with badly negative run margins.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T09:15:31.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/cfr-regulatory-volume-concentration-title-40-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/cfr-regulatory-volume-concentration-title-40-2026/",
      "title": "One title holds nearly a fifth of the entire federal rulebook — environmental regulation, bigger than the 27 smallest CFR titles combined",
      "summary": "We measured all 49 active titles of the Code of Federal Regulations by the size the eCFR records for each. The code totals about 830 MB of regulatory text; Title 40 alone is 19.3% of it and 1.8x the next-largest — and over the past year the whole code moved less than 1%.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T07:12:01.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-preseason-2026-field-goals-nearly-matched-touchdowns/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-preseason-2026-field-goals-nearly-matched-touchdowns/",
      "title": "Field goals nearly matched touchdowns across the NFL preseason's first 33 games — and in six, the winner made no more touchdowns than the team it beat, but more field goals",
      "summary": "We counted every scoring play in the 33 completed games — Hall of Fame weekend plus the first two preseason weekends: 112 field goals against 123 touchdowns, a third of the kicks from 50 yards or longer, and in 6 of the 32 decided games the winner scored no more touchdowns than the team it beat. Two of the six were Tennessee's, both with four Joey Slye field goals.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T03:15:14.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-fed-balance-sheet-runoff-reverse-repo-absorbed-reserves-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-fed-balance-sheet-runoff-reverse-repo-absorbed-reserves-2026/",
      "title": "The Fed's balance sheet is $2.235 trillion smaller than its 2022 peak — and bank reserves absorbed less than half the drop. The reverse-repo liability line gave up the most, $1.714 trillion, and the overnight facility inside it has drained to $175 million",
      "summary": "We read all 229 weekly Fed balance-sheet releases since the April 2022 peak and traced where the runoff came out. Of the $2.235 trillion in assets shed, the reverse-repo liability line gave up the largest single share — $1.714 trillion, 77% — while reserves fell $899 billion (40%) and the Treasury's cash balance and currency both rose. The overnight facility inside that line has drained to $175 million; the Fed concluded its runoff on Dec. 1, 2025, citing money-market signs that reserves had finally tightened.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T01:17:43.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-red-zone-targets-receiving-touchdowns-2025/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/nfl-red-zone-targets-receiving-touchdowns-2025/",
      "title": "Jefferson drew 19 red-zone targets and scored twice; Goedert drew 15 and scored 11 — we read all 811 receiving TDs",
      "summary": "In the 2025 regular season a target from inside the 20 scored at 24.2%, one from anywhere else at 1.6% — and across 124 pass-catchers the red-zone look, not the raw target column, is the target that tracks the scoring.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/travel-advisory-country-badge-hides-do-not-travel-zone-2026-08/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/travel-advisory-country-badge-hides-do-not-travel-zone-2026-08/",
      "title": "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 one",
      "summary": "We read all 215 advisories the State Department publishes at once. The single top-level rating is a destination-wide floor, not the local reality: 19 of the 164 countries and areas badged Level 1 or 2 carry a 'Do Not Travel To' region in their text.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "travel"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-electricity-access-2030-rural-deficit-2024/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-electricity-access-2030-rural-deficit-2024/",
      "title": "The world pledged electricity for everyone by 2030. On its own 2024 numbers 655 million people are still without it — and among the 210 countries that report both rates, 83% of the unpowered live in the countryside",
      "summary": "We read the World Bank's 2024 access figures for all 215 reporting economies. Access is nearly universal in the cities — 98% globally — and the shortfall has collapsed onto the village: DR Congo reaches 55% of its urban residents and 1% of its rural ones, and eight countries hold half the people still in the dark.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-28T23:33:21.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-population-decline-emigration-not-fertility-2024/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-population-decline-emigration-not-fertility-2024/",
      "title": "42 economies shrank in 2024 — and 17 of them recorded more births than deaths. Fertility does not cleanly sort the declines; the pattern is consistent with net outward movement",
      "summary": "We read every economy's own vital statistics: 7 of the 42 shrinking economies have fertility at or above replacement, while the famous low-fertility giants — China, Italy, Thailand — sit at the shallow end of the decline, not the steep one.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-26T23:12:16.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/usopen-2026-qualifying-first-set-coin-flip-deciders/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/usopen-2026-qualifying-first-set-coin-flip-deciders/",
      "title": "We read every US Open qualifying opener: the first-set winner won 84% of matches — and exactly half the deciders",
      "summary": "Across all 128 completed first-round qualifying matches at the 2026 US Open — 64 men, 64 women — the player who won the opening set won the match 105 of 125 times that finished on court. But that entire edge is straight-sets. Once a match reached a third set, the first-set winner went 20-20.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-26T21:15:39.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-federal-spending-object-class-transfers-vs-payroll-fy2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/us-federal-spending-object-class-transfers-vs-payroll-fy2026/",
      "title": "Read all $8.3 trillion in federal obligations by what the money buys: 72.6% is grants, benefits and interest, 11.5% is the government's own payroll",
      "summary": "Through three quarters of fiscal 2026 the government obligated more to outside contractual services and supplies than to its entire workforce — and six times as much to grants and fixed charges. The largest thing it does is move money, not make or hire.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-26T19:12:20.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-government-health-5pct-benchmark-structure-2022/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/world-government-health-5pct-benchmark-structure-2022/",
      "title": "A widely cited benchmark asks governments to spend 5% of GDP on health. Of 192 economies with 2022 data, 141 miss it — and the 30 high-income economies among them cannot be read simply as evidence of inability to pay",
      "summary": "Switzerland runs health through mandatory private insurance and covers barely a third of its own bill; the Gulf's petro-states fund most of theirs but divide by a hydrocarbon-heavy GDP — while Lesotho and Namibia clear a line set by how much a government spends on health relative to its GDP, not simply by national wealth.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-26T17:12:18.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "world"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/qb-passing-yards-after-catch-share-goff-stafford-2025/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/qb-passing-yards-after-catch-share-goff-stafford-2025/",
      "title": "We read all 36 qualified 2025 passers: 38% to 64% of each one's passing yards came after the catch",
      "summary": "Standard fantasy scoring pays 0.04 points a passing yard whether the quarterback drove it downfield or dumped it to a receiver who ran the rest. Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford each threw for about 4,600 yards in 2025 — Goff's came 53% after the catch, Stafford's 39%.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-26T15:14:31.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://claridas.com/articles/federal-civilian-workforce-october-cliff-then-plateau-2026/",
      "url": "https://claridas.com/articles/federal-civilian-workforce-october-cliff-then-plateau-2026/",
      "title": "Outside the Postal Service, the federal workforce shed 165,000 jobs in one month — then all but stopped shrinking for six months",
      "summary": "We read every monthly federal payroll print since 1939. The 2025–26 downsizing was a single October cliff, not a glide — and by July 2026 it had held roughly flat for half a year, at the fewest civilian federal workers since 2009.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-26T13:27:12.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "us"
      ]
    }
  ]
}