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Dec 17, 2025
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How did Venezuela compensate (or not) international oil companies after Chávez seized their assets?

Hugo Chávez’s mid-2000s nationalizations transferred operational control of many foreign-run oil projects to PDVSA and the Venezuelan state, producing a patchwork of outcomes: some firms took negotiat...

Dec 11, 2025
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Why is America so stupid

The United States does not rank as uniformly "stupid" in available metrics; average national IQ estimates hover near the high 90s (around 97–98) and state-by-state IQ estimates vary by only single-dig...

Dec 3, 2025
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How do employment and poverty rates for Somali Americans compare to other immigrant groups?

Somali Americans show mixed employment and poverty signals: survey-era U.S. figures report roughly 58% employment for working‑age Somali Americans and 5.1% self‑employment nationally (62% and 5.9% in ...

Nov 28, 2025

Percentage of US population is 70 or older

About 17–18% of the U.S. population is age 65 or older in recent years, rising from roughly 55.8 million in 2020 to about 58–61 million by 2022–2024, and projected to reach roughly 22–23% by 2050 . Co...

Nov 13, 2025

How has US national debt trended compared to EU countries since 2010?

Since 2010 the United States’ national debt has , surpassing typical EU averages and many individual member states; by 2024–2025 U.S. debt stood near or above 118–121% of GDP while the EU average clus...

Nov 10, 2025

How does China's 2025 poverty rate compare to other developing countries?

China’s poverty level in the mid-2020s is but depends heavily on which poverty line is used: under the World Bank’s traditional $1.90/day measure China is effectively at near-zero extreme poverty, whi...

Dec 9, 2025

how much people died in a year

Global annual deaths in recent projections cluster around 62–63 million people per year; for 2025 several independent trackers estimate about 63.1 million deaths worldwide and roughly 173,000 deaths p...

Dec 17, 2025

What legal disputes and international arbitration arose from Venezuela's oil and mining nationalizations?

Venezuela’s 2000s-era nationalizations of oil and mining assets spawned a cascade of international arbitrations, producing multi‑billion‑dollar awards, mixed rulings on legality versus compensation, a...

Dec 17, 2025

What compensation, if any, did Venezuela pay to companies whose mining assets were seized?

Venezuela has been ordered to pay large arbitration awards to multiple foreign firms for past seizures — notably ConocoPhillips (~$8–$10.7 billion total awards under different cases) and Rusoro (~$1.2...

Nov 25, 2025

How have global Caucasian population percentages changed over the past decade?

Global sources in the provided set do not give a single, agreed global “Caucasian” percentage or a decade-long time series for that group worldwide; available reporting focuses on broad regional popul...

Dec 19, 2025

What compensation outcomes resulted from international arbitration cases brought by ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil against Venezuela?

ConocoPhillips won multiple arbitration awards totalling roughly $10–11 billion when interest is included: an ICSID award of about US$8.7 billion plus US$20.4 million in costs (later described in repo...

Dec 18, 2025

Which major mining companies lost assets in Venezuela and what legal strategies did they pursue?

Three high-profile losses tied to Venezuela’s resource nationalizations stand out in recent reporting: Canadian juniors Rusoro and Crystallex had gold assets seized in 2011 and subsequently won multi‑...

Dec 18, 2025

What other foreign (non‑U.S.) oil firms had assets nationalized by Venezuela and what legal outcomes followed?

Venezuela’s nationalizations over decades swept up not only U.S. oil majors but a broad array of foreign (non‑U.S.) firms — European and regional partners in joint ventures — and several of those comp...

Nov 13, 2025

What percentage of US federal budget goes to defense spending?

The best synthesis of the provided analyses shows that , with commonly cited point estimates clustering near and a larger DOD-budgetary-resources share reported for FY2025. Differences arise from vary...

Jan 14, 2026

population of greenland

Greenland’s population in early 2026 is estimated at roughly 55,600–57,000 people, with most mainstream counters clustering around 55,600–55,800 based on recent United Nations and World Bank–derived s...

Dec 12, 2025

If a global financial reset happened, what practical impacts would it have on banks, currencies, and individual savings?

A sudden, comprehensive “global financial reset” as described in fringe outlets would claim instant debt jubilee, gold-backed digital currencies and a quantum payments system — claims found in Dinar C...

Oct 6, 2025

Did Trump receive any loans from Russian banks or investors?

The materials provided contain ; every analyzed item either addresses unrelated financial or political topics or explicitly lacks discussion of Russian-origin loans . , instead focusing on venture fun...

Dec 17, 2025

What legal claims and arbitration cases arose from Venezuela's 2007–2010 oil nationalizations?

Multiple large arbitration and court claims arose from Hugo Chávez’s 2007–2010 oil nationalizations: ConocoPhillips won roughly $8.7 billion at ICSID (later subject to annulment attempts and enforceme...

Dec 3, 2025

What are the latest UN or World Bank estimates for global population by broad ethnic or racial categories in 2025?

Neither the United Nations nor the World Bank publishes a global 2025 breakdown of the world population by broad “race” or ethnic group; both organizations provide total and regional population estima...

Nov 2, 2025

global currency reset

The phrase "global currency reset" bundles a set of claims that a coordinated international reordering of monetary systems — potentially replacing or revaluing major reserve currencies — is imminent o...