The price of the eurocrisis is unemployment.
This chart, compiled by Reuters, shows unemployment in the Eurozone in July was at a record 11.3%.
(Each colour represents a different country.)
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Despite reporting revenues of over $200m each in the past year, music streaming services Pandora and Spotify still can’t turn a profit, as this chart from Statista shows.
The problem is the high cost of music royalties. Pandora paid 54% of its revenue to artists and Spotify claim they pay 70% of their income back to the industry.
Is it time for the music business to lower its royalty rate?
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According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, two things are largely responsible for America’s deficit problem: Bush-era tax cuts and war.
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How big is Apple? Very big.
According to The Economist Apple accounts for 4.8% of the S&P 500, 3.7% of America’s stockmarket and 1.3% of the global equity market:
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Here’s a great infographic from our friends at Statista.
Despite growth of digital music sales, recorded music sales are expected to decline overall in 2012, a net decline of $0.6 billion in 2012.
The music sales freefall continues as this chart shows.
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Financial services employment in London is at an all-time high of more than 380,000, says The Financial Times.
There was a sharp dip in 2002 after the dotcom crash and again in 2009 as the full effects of the global crisis began to be felt by the banks.
But those cuts have been more than offset by new hires over the past two-and-a-half years.
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The US economy (once you strip out defence spending) is 4.2% above levels in 2009Q1, compared to 4% for G.W. Bush, 13 quarters after his inauguration.
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