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23.12.25 - 13:30
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The Box Office Crisis Is Worse Than It Looks (ZeroHedge)
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The Box Office Crisis Is Worse Than It Looks
Prior to the release of "Avatar: Fire and Ash" in the week before Christmas, 2025 was another disappointing year at the box office.
Statista's Felix Richer details below that, according to industry tracker The Numbers, this year's domestic box office gross will be roughly in line with last year's result, which fell short of the 2023 total, not to mention coming anywhere close to pre-pandemic levels.
At an estimated total of $8.6 billion, the North American box office fell 23 percent short of its 2019 performance last year and is currently projected to do the same in 2025.
While that sounds bad enough, it gets worse: looking at ticket sales, which takes rising ticket prices out of the equation, the results are more dire than the box office earnings would suggest.
Compared to 2019, ticket sales are down almost 40 percent, and, perhaps most concerning, the decline in ticket sales began long before the pandemic.
According to The Numbers, t...
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23.12.25 - 01:48
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Barcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain′s housing crisis. Which will succeed? | Jaime Palomera (The Guardian)
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While the country's capital is loosening regulations, the Catalan city is strengthening social housing. Their outcomes will affect all our futuresIn Spain, two cities face the same crisis, but are responding in fundamentally different ways. Over the past decade, the cost of housing in Madrid and Barcelona has soared – with rents rising by about 60% and sale prices by 90% – leaving young people, working families and retired people struggling to stay in their homes or even find one.Yet, while one city is betting everything on construction and giving free rein to big investors, the other is cautiously trying to steer the housing market towards the public good, despite political and institutional constraints.Jaime Palomera is a researcher on housing and inequality, author of The Hijacking of Housing, and co-founder of the Barcelona Urban Research Institute (IDRA) and the Tenants' Union Continue reading......
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21.12.25 - 05:39
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Why US Is Such A Popular Destination During Global Migrant Crisis (ZeroHedge)
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Why US Is Such A Popular Destination During Global Migrant Crisis
Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times,
The Trump administration recently suspended the processing of all immigration applications from 19 countries, including Afghanistan, citing national security and public safety concerns.
The Dec. 2 decision came a week after an Afghan national who had been allowed into the United States under a Biden-era program was charged with shooting two National Guard soldiers near the White House. The ambush killed one of the victims and left the other in critical condition.
The White House's move comes amid a global migration crisis, in which millions of people have left their home countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia for the affluent economies of North America and Europe.
Although the United States was founded by immigrants, experts say that times have changed, and the country has become too popular a destination that now action is needed to restore a functioning immigration system.
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20.12.25 - 20:06
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80% of global enterprises face AI agent failures amid governance crisis (Digitimes)
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Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI agents—autonomous AI applications capable of decision-making. But this shift exposes them to new cybersecurity risks. Simon Tai, managing director for Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan at SailPoint, revealed that up to 80% of companies have experienced AI agents performing unexpected actions, highlighting a critical gap in governance mechanisms for non-human identities....
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20.12.25 - 13:54
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Exporting to survive: inside China′s overcapacity crisis (Digitimes)
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The global auto industry is entering an unusual phase of expansion—one driven less by strategic ambition than by the need to survive. China's automakers have unleashed a surge of exports that, at first glance, looks like an aggressive push into overseas markets. Beneath the surface, however, lies a harsher reality: cutthroat competition at home and a deepening structural overcapacity that is leaving many firms with few viable alternatives....
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20.12.25 - 12:48
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′Borrowed time′: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis (The Guardian)
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Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerableHow climate breakdown is putting the world's food in peril – in maps and chartsThe destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded.Researchers said the world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests. Continue reading......
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