The Demographics of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Some of the biggest demographic factors in pharmaceutical medicine usage include age, gender, race and ethnicity, and type of chronic medical condition.
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The Demographics of the Supplement Industry
A look at the demographics of the supplement industry provides insight on who uses the most supplements and why — and raises questions about what's keeping certain populations from using supplements to the same extent.
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The Growth of the Supplement Industry: A Report for 2022
The global supplement market brought in $151.9 billion in 2021 and is on track to grow at an 8.9% CAGR between 2022 and 2030.
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Sports Salary Inflation: What Decades of Data Reveal
Professional sports stars have seen tremendous earnings growth over the past several decades. Where professional major-league athletes once had to work off-season jobs just to make ends meet, their per-season salaries and bonuses now amount to many times what the average American family can expect to earn over the course of a lifetime. Sports salary […]
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Soccer Salary Inflation: How Top Soccer Salaries Came to Approach $100,000,000
Which professional sport offers the most lucrative contracts to top contenders? If the first names that come to mind are Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks, baseball players with unbeatable batting accuracy, or top-scoring basketball stars, you’re in for a surprise. In fact, we’re talking about soccer, the sport that is known in most of the world as […]
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Hockey Inflation: The 800-Fold Increase in Hockey Player Salaries Since 1960 Is a Hat Trick
Even in the professional sport’s early years, star players could earn salaries that tripled what the average American worker earned. As earning potential picked up among professional hockey stars over the next century, the best-paid players in the National Hockey League (NHL) were earning hundreds of times what the average American family made in a […]
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Football Inflation: Moving the Goalpost from $50,000 to $50,000,000 in under 60 Years
Not all that long ago, the massive contracts awarded to today’s top NFL players would have been unthinkable. When pro football was in its infancy, salaries weren’t lucrative. The very first athlete to earn money for playing a game of football made just $500. For decades, professional football players routinely worked “regular” jobs in the […]
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Basketball Inflation: 75 Years of Growth Leads to Slam-Dunk Earnings
When professional basketball in the United States was in its infancy, star players made about 2.5 times what the average family made in a year. Today, the highest-paid players in the National Basketball Association earn more than 600 times the median family’s income for the year. In basketball, as in other sports, the salaries of […]
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Baseball Inflation: How a 500-Fold Increase Knocked Baseball Salaries Out of the Park
After a long and dreary winter, baseball season is finally underway—just in time for the news that inflation has hit a 40-year high. The salaries of our favorite baseball players are subject to their own sort of inflation. This particular inflation rate towers over the Consumer Price Index (CPI) typically used to quantify inflation. [To […]
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The Dangers of Buying a Flipped House: You May Be Facing Hundreds of Thousands in Damage from a “Ticking Time Bomb”
Editor’s Preface: With the breakout success of Chip and Joanna Gaines’ FIXER UPPER program, flipped homes look more appealing than ever. Today’s homebuyers are likely to let their guard down when purchasing flipped houses, and people investing in house flipping may not appreciate the importance of using contractors that know what they’re doing and have […]
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