🔥 Fed Cuts Interest Rate 0.25%; European Country Most Willing to Donate Organs; Burning Man Participants by Age and Income

PLUS, NASA's badass plan to turn a moon crater into a giant radio telescope.

🫀 MAPPED: Europe’s Willingness to Donate An Organ After Death

Source: u/Alarmed_Wish3294

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🔥 Burning Man Attendees by Age and Income Over Time

Source: The San Francisco Standard

Source: The San Francisco Standard

Next time I go to burning man, I’m wearing my EBITA hat.

“how do you do my fellow festies?”

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📈 The Fed Cut Interest Rates by 0.25%

For the first time in nine months, the Fed just dropped the interest rates,

Here’s the fed funds rate over the past 10 years:

Here’s where inflation stands (still sitting at like 2.9%):

“inflation goes like this”

Here were the odds on Polymarket the day before the 0.25% rate cut was announced:

Source: Polymarket

One Polymarket trader made over $200k on betting the Fed would drop rates 25 bips in September:

Powell said he expected to drop the rate two more times this year, and the Fed only has two more meetings where they could potentially announce rate cuts — October 28–29 and December 9–10.

Here’s where the Polymarket traders currently think about the October meeting:

Source: Polymarket

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🔭 NASA Is Scheming

Source: NASA

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🇨🇳 China Is Now #1 in Global Car Production (by far)

Source: Bloomberg via Jostein Hauge

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🎵 Countries Who Stream Their Own Artists the Most on Spotify

From DataPulse:

Source: Skoove

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🇺🇸 Countries Where a US State Governor Has Been Born

Source: u/dphayteeyl

Shouts out to the one and only “Austrian Oak” Arnold Schwarzenegger:

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🧭 The Single Most Important Thing You Need to Know Before Visiting the British Isles

Source: u/vladgrinch

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🏠 Americans ❤️ Real Estate

Source: Chartr

Seems cool to have land, but boring to be a property manager. Is real estate still a good investment if you’re paying a property manager? (asking for a friend)

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🏪 The Grand Bazaar’s Centuries-Old Legacy

Source: @fasc1nate

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🇺🇸 Most Common Hispanic South American Origin Per State

Source: Vine Mapper

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💰 Old Larry Ellison Overtakes Elon Musk As World’s Richest Man (Momentarily)

Source: CNN

Source: CNN

Source: Chartr

Source: Chartr

Source: Chartr

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Source: The Guardian

Oracle stock year-to-date:

Oracle stock all-time:

Larry Ellison after he played w ChatGPT for the first time:

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🎶 Banger of the Day

deacon posing with some fan art (probably)

Here’s a banger from one of Baltimore’s finest, Dan Deacon. Dan has one of the deepest wells of good music - so many bangers slappers, but unfortunately I have a hard time tracks of his that work on IG. So many of his tracks slowly grow and evolve as the song carries on, it makes it nearly impossible to capture the magic with a 90-second snippet.

Dan Deacon - Feel The Lightning

SIDE NOTE: On Instagram, we pair each post with a song that bangs. A lot of people don’t know that we have a comprehensive Spotify playlist with every song we ever played. Click here to check it out. 🎶

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