Data stories
What the numbers say
Short stories with a thesis, computed live from the same snapshot as the map — the prose frames, the official numbers speak. Never estimated, always dated.
Monthly earnings
What a month of work pays, around the world →
Mean monthly earnings in PPP dollars from the ILO — a wage yardstick that reaches far beyond the OECD, and a spread between the top and bottom of the table that exchange rates alone cannot explain away.
Real interest rates
Where parked money still beats inflation →
Policy rate minus inflation, country by country: where cash in the bank grows in real terms — and where it quietly loses purchasing power every year.
Mortgage rates
The same mortgage, wildly different prices →
One €300,000 loan over 25 years, priced at every country’s official new-mortgage rate — the monthly gap between the cheapest and priciest market is the story.
Minimum wages
Europe’s minimum wage gap →
Statutory minimum wages in euros per month across Europe: the legal floor differs by a factor of several — and some countries deliberately have none.
House price index
A decade of house prices, country by country →
Official house price indices with 2015 = 100: which markets nearly tripled, which barely moved, and why the index measures movement — not what a home costs.