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Neal’s Numbers of 2024: Warren Buffet T-Bills, Digital Cameras, and More
27 Dec 2024
Episode 484: Neal and Toby reflect on the numbers that stood out throughout the year, including Warren Buffet’s Treasury Bills, Digital Cameras, and Toby shares his favorite tallies from the year! Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://link.chtbl.com/MBD Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow
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Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, 5, 44%, 3 septillion.
Oh my gosh, it's a special Neil's Numbers episode. It's Friday, December 27th. Let's ride. Let's ride.
Good morning and happy Friday, even though the days of the week feel a little made up during this stretch from Christmas to New Year's. We're back with another special episode, one that is near and dear to my heart because it's the best of Neil's numbers.
Each Thursday, I bring you three of the most fascinating stats from the week's news, hopefully making you the most interesting person at your dinner party in the process. For this episode, our team poured over every number I discussed from 2024 and picked a bunch that stood out either for representing a bigger theme from the year or just because they were so wacky. Toby, are you ready?
By the way, your commentary is a big reason why Neil's numbers is so popular.
Oh, you flatter me too much. Neil, this is my favorite segment every week. Not only because I learn a lot, but also you do most of the talking. So let's dive right in.
All right, I guess I will start talking then. One of my numbers from back in January was that we were entering the biggest election year in history. In 2024, 76 countries with more than half the world's population, over 4 billion people voted in elections, including eight of the 10 most populous countries in the world. What did we learn now that all those votes have been counted?
One pattern that was clearly evident is that voters were fed up with inflation. The incumbents in every single one of 10 major countries with elections this year were handed losses by voters, including the Democrats in the U.S., Britain's Tories, Emmanuel Macron's coalition in France, and Japan's liberal Democrats. It was the first time this has happened in 120 years of record keeping.
Yeah, I mean, among democracies that held elections this year, 80% saw their incumbent party lose. Some places it was longtime incumbents, too. In Senegal, its now president became the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election since the country became independent in 1960. So it really was a year of people saying, we want change, we want something different.
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