tradingeconomics.com

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Trading economics – Imports and exports per country.

goodjobsfirst.org

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Tracking Subsidies, Promoting Accountability in Economic Development.

Also features a corporate violation tracker https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker

crowdjustice.com

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Get funding, take legal action.
Public and private crowdfunding for legal issues big and small.

numbeo.com

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Cost of living, Quality of life and travel for around the world.

Quality of Life Index 2015 Mid Year

22 July 2015 @ 6:20 am

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Cost of Living Index 2014 Mid Year

1 July 2014 @ 8:04 am

Numbeo Cost of Living Index 2014 Mid Year (July 1st, 2014) Numbeo, the world's largest database of user contributed data about living conditions in cities and countries worldwide, released mid year 2014 rankings. The most expensive cities in the world, in mid 2014 are Zurich (CPI index 159.51), Stavanger (156.71) and Geneva (150.43). Indian cities Thiruvananthapuram (22.25), Coimbatore (24.57) and Indore (25.90) are the least expensive cities in the world. In Europe, cities in Switzerland and Norway dominate the list of most expensive cities, while the least expensive cities in Europe are Bitola (index 37.88), followed by Chisinau (38.40) and Dnipropetrovsk (40.53). Cities in Europe, out of all

The Most Expensive Cities in 2014 by Numbeo's Cost of Living International Rankings

28 January 2014 @ 11:33 am

The biggest free cost of living database, Numbeo, collected more than 1.1 million data from more than 130000 contributors since 2009. The result of Numbeo's survey, shows, that in the beginning of 2014, the most expensive cities (excluding rent) are Zurich (index 157.47), Trondheim (152.89) and Geneva (162.34). The least expensive are Thiruvananthapuram (21.17), Tiruchirapalli (23.23) and Indore (23.94) in India. Numbeo is currently tracking the prices of 48 goods and services. In Numbeo's survey, New York is used as the base city for the index and scores 100 points, all cities are compared against New York and currency movements are measured against US Dollar and EURO. Lucerne in Switzerland scores 150.75 points and is nearly three times as costly as Consanta in Romania with an index score of 50.32. In Europe, many cities in Switzerland and Norway are among the most expensive on the list, followed by Paris (120.68). In

New Numbeo release brings support for mobile phones!

7 October 2013 @ 11:56 am

New www.numbeo.com release brings support for mobile phones. Let me know if you encounter any problem. New mobile version of the website is supposed to load automatically when you access the website from the mobile phone.

BudgetDirect Provides Interesting User Experience over Numbeo Data

2 October 2013 @ 7:11 am

BudgetDirect do provide interesting user experience using Numbeo data in their cost of living tool . I'm interested to hear what do you like and what do you dislike in their tool, especially regarding look&feel.

Numbeo, the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide, has chosen Iceland as the least polluted country in 2013

27 February 2013 @ 12:28 pm

Top 10 the least polluted countries, according to Numbeo are: - Iceland (pollution index 9.85) - Estonia (16.38) - Finland (18.53) - Sweden (18.79) - Australia (20.89) - New Zealand (21.80) - Switzerland (22.97) - Norway (23.35) - Lithuania (25.17) - Canada (26.52) The full list is available at: http://www.numbeo.com/pollution/rankings_by_country.jsp

Top 10 Safest Countries in the World in 2013

27 February 2013 @ 12:28 pm

Japan is the safest country in the world in 2013, according to Numbeo, the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Top 10 safest countries, according to Numbeo are: - Japan (safety index 86.89) - Taiwan (83.74) - Hong Kong (83.43) - South Korea (82.60) - United Arab Emirates (81.99) - Malta (81.46) - Luxembourg (81.25) - Georgia (80.43) - Bahrain (80.21) - Singapore (80.02) - Iceland (77.68) The full list is available at: http://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp

Numbeo: Quality of Life Index by City 2013

27 February 2013 @ 12:27 pm

ZURICH is the city with the best quality of life in 2013, according to an annual report by Numbeo, the world's largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. For its quality of life index 2013 it gathered data from more than 76000 people around the world. The cities which are ranked highest in quality of life are: - Zurich, Switzerland (score 233.72) - Canberra, Australia (219.15) - Adelaide, Australia (214.61) - Berlin, Germany (213.50) - Munich, Germany (210.24) - Edmonton, Canada (208.74) - Calgary, Canada (202.72) - Hamburg, Germany (201.55) - Austin, TX, United States (199.52) - Dubai, United Arab Emirates (195.49) Full rankings are available at: http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings.jsp About Numbeo: Numbeo is the worl

Property Prices Indexes 2013

4 February 2013 @ 11:19 am

Numbeo did publish it's property price indexes for 2013. Property Price Index by city is available at: http://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings.jsp Property Price Index by country is available at : http://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_country.jsp

Cost of Living Index for 2013 - Norway, Switzerland and Australia are most expensive

4 February 2013 @ 11:16 am

Based on 48 goods and services, Numbeo's survey for 2013 is made using a data cut on 4th of February 2013. This year data cut contains 367958 entries from 33448 individual contributors worldwide. The data on city level are showing Norwegian cities Stavanger, Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen on top of the list of most expensive cities. Several cities in Switzerland are also among the most expensive in the world: Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne and Bern. Among the 25 most expensive cities in the world, our list includes also eight Australian cities: Perth, Sydney, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. Only a few cities which are not in Norway, Switzerland and Australia made their way into the top 25 most expensive list: Luanda in Angola, Stockholm in Sweden, Arhus and Copenhagen in Denmark, Paris in France, Luxembourg and on 25th place Tokyo in Japan. List with details on city level is available at:

zerohedge.com

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International finance and business news.

Escobar: Anarchy In The Levant - Your Future Dream Is A Chaos Scheme

21 December 2024 @ 4:25 am

Escobar: Anarchy In The Levant - Your Future Dream Is A Chaos Scheme Authored by Pepe Escobar, Tehran and Moscow harbor no illusions – and are preparing accordingly. The war on BRICS is just getting started.

Diddy, Deadpool, & The Donald: 2024 In Google Searches

21 December 2024 @ 4:00 am

Diddy, Deadpool, & The Donald: 2024 In Google Searches 2024 will be another year not forgotten any time soon. A look at the biggest trending Google searches can serve as a reminder for just some of the events and situations that have shaped our world over the last 12 months. The following chart, via Statista's Anna Fleck, looks at the most-googled terms between January 1 and November 23.

Trump Could Tariff NATO Allies That Do Not Pay Up

21 December 2024 @ 3:35 am

Trump Could Tariff NATO Allies That Do Not Pay Up Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, Russia launched almost 300 drones and missiles in a coordinated attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Dec. 13. The attack is an apparent attempt to further terrorize Ukrainians into surrender by destroying their heat and light in the middle of winter. The war has dragged on for almost three years now, and Ukrainians are getting tired. Their army is depleted of personnel and

Rocking Around The Plastic Tree

21 December 2024 @ 3:10 am

Rocking Around The Plastic Tree For some families, the search for the right Christmas tree is an annual event.

Never Underestimate The Power Of Unfinished Business

21 December 2024 @ 2:45 am

Never Underestimate The Power Of Unfinished Business Authored by Robert Malone via The Brownstone Institute, The Fathomless Bottom of the Deep State The Senior Executive Service (SES) class of federal employees was created under President Carter through the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. The SES was established to “…ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.”

Trump-Era Official Blasts Canada Over Fentanyl Super Labs & Transnational Crime Gangs 

21 December 2024 @ 2:20 am

Trump-Era Official Blasts Canada Over Fentanyl Super Labs & Transnational Crime Gangs  President-elect Donald Trump's threat to impose a sweeping 25% tariff on all goods and services from Canada, aimed at pressuring the neighbors to the north to curb cross-border fentanyl and human smuggling, has thrown Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government into a state of turmoil.  Trade between Canada and the US is the largest of any two nations, with cross-border trade totaling $926 billion in 2023—roughly $2.5 billion daily. This dark tariff reality for Trudeau of not responding adequately to Trump's border security demand

Parents' Rights Group Reveals Dept Of Ed Spent $1 Billion On DEI Since 2021

21 December 2024 @ 1:55 am

Parents' Rights Group Reveals Dept Of Ed Spent $1 Billion On DEI Since 2021 Authored by Elad Vaida via Campus Reform, A parental rights group published a report showing that the Department of Education has spent enormous sums to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Parents Defending Education works to “reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas.” It published its report on Dec. 12 demonstrating that, since 2021, the Department of Education has spent $1,002

Check Your WiFi Router Brand... US Mulls Ban On Chinese-Made TP-Link

21 December 2024 @ 1:30 am

Check Your WiFi Router Brand... US Mulls Ban On Chinese-Made TP-Link Chinese TP-Link routers, the best-selling ones on Jeff Bezos' Amazon, have been intensely scrutinized by US investigators due to links to multiple Chinese cyberattacks. This has prompted US officials to consider a potential ban on these routers, citing national security concerns.  Sources familiar with investigations at the Commerce, Defense, and Justice departments told the Wall Street Journal that a nationwide ban on TP-Link routers could come as soon as next year.  WSJ noted that the Shenzhen-based router manufacturer accounts for an alarming 65% of the US rou

'Hawk Tuah' Influencer Breaks Silence After Memecoin Rig-Pull Allegations

21 December 2024 @ 1:05 am

'Hawk Tuah' Influencer Breaks Silence After Memecoin Rig-Pull Allegations Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, Hailey Welch, the influencer behind the viral ‘Hawk Tuah’ TikTok video, has released a statement after a memecoin bearing her handle pumped and dumped quickly after its December launch.

Eggflation: Dozen-Pack At Supermarket Hit Record Highs As Bird Flu Ravages Farms

21 December 2024 @ 12:40 am

Eggflation: Dozen-Pack At Supermarket Hit Record Highs As Bird Flu Ravages Farms New retail price data shows supermarket prices of a dozen eggs have soared to record highs. The surge comes amid an ever-expanding bird flu outbreak that has led to the culling of millions of birds, denting the size of the nation's egg-laying hen population.  Bloomberg cited Expana data showing that a dozen eggs in the Midwest cost about $5.67 this week, exceeding the record high of $5.46 set in December 2022. 

ft.com

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The latest speculation economic and corporate political news from around the world, pay-walled for the rich and privileged.

US Senate votes through last-gasp bill to keep government open

21 December 2024 @ 5:54 am

Funding measure gets bipartisan backing after days of bickering on Capitol Hill

Nigeria tax spat opens country’s smouldering north-south divide

21 December 2024 @ 5:00 am

Critics warn President Bola Tinubu’s proposed changes to VAT distribution will help wealthier southern states

AI’s assault on our intellectual property must be stopped

21 December 2024 @ 5:00 am

Writers should not have to shoulder the burden of ‘opting out’ from companies stealing their work

Goodbye to Berlin, Europe’s self-effacing capital

21 December 2024 @ 5:00 am

The FT’s departing correspondent on the city’s transformation over the past decade

What Christmas cash scheme from the Great Depression tells us about money

21 December 2024 @ 5:00 am

A scrip still handed out by city of Hawarden is built on sound administration

What’s it like in central London on Christmas Day?

21 December 2024 @ 5:00 am

Oysters, Americans and last-minute reservations: a report from the festive frontlines

Argentina chooses US investor to spur nuclear-powered AI dream

21 December 2024 @ 12:20 am

Shift to new reactor technology comes as Javier Milei aims to attract energy-intensive companies to cooler south

Eli Lilly given US approval to treat sleep disorder with weight-loss drug

20 December 2024 @ 10:33 pm

Regulatory go-ahead marks latest boost for drugmaker’s blockbuster anti-obesity franchise

US stocks rebound from sell-off sparked by Fed

20 December 2024 @ 10:24 pm

Lower than expected inflation figures help S&P 500 claw back some of its losses

duedil.com

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UK companies house, business insights. Now pay walled so not as useful as it has been.

kickstarter.com

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the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects.

venturebeat.com

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Venture capital technology news

Arm lawsuit against Qualcomm ends in mistrial and favorable ruling for Qualcomm

21 December 2024 @ 12:17 am

Qualcomm did not violate a license with Arm when it acquired Nuvia for $1.4 billion, in a ruling by a jury today.

Players invested 8.34B hours into Blizzard titles in 2024, says studio

20 December 2024 @ 10:10 pm

Blizzard has released its 2024 End-of-Year report, detailing the amount of player investment in its titles across the year.

Hugging Face shows how test-time scaling helps small language models punch above their weight

20 December 2024 @ 8:46 pm

Given enough time to "think," small language models can beat LLMs at math and coding tasks by generating and verifying multiple answers.

Perplexity’s Carbon integration will make it easier for enterprises to connect their data to AI search

20 December 2024 @ 8:10 pm

With the acquisition of Carbon, Perplexity will expand the knowledge pool powering its AI search engine, making its responses more relevant. 

OpenAI confirms new frontier models o3 and o3-mini

20 December 2024 @ 6:07 pm

OpenAI has just confirmed that is releasing new reasoning models named o3 and o3-mini, successors to the o1 and o1-mini models.

My favorite games of 2024 | The DeanBeat

20 December 2024 @ 6:00 pm

So many games. So little time. Seems like I say that every year, as my pile of shame gets bigger. But I had enough time to pick my fav games.

Building giant and ambitious games | Brendan Greene interview

20 December 2024 @ 3:00 pm

Elvis Presley once said, "Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG, still has a lot of ambition.

ChatGPT adds more PC and Mac app integrations, getting closer to piloting your computer

19 December 2024 @ 9:59 pm

ChatGPT can now support more coding platforms and applications on its desktop apps, opening the door for more agentic use in the future.

SpongeBob SquarePants is the latest icon to join the UEFN platform

19 December 2024 @ 9:01 pm

Zoned and Paramount have brought SpongeBob to Fortnite’s UEFN platform in four new UGC-based experiences.

Gamefam closes year of growth with 5 of top 15 branded games on Roblox

19 December 2024 @ 7:30 pm

Gamefam said that its branded games on Roblox and Fortnite have exceeded 2.7 billion brand engagements in 2024.

maxkeiser.com

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unadulterated financial news from Max Keiser

The Covid-19 Dominoes Fall: The World Is Insolvent

16 March 2020 @ 4:40 pm

To understand why the financial dominoes toppled by the Covid-19 pandemic lead to global insolvency, let’s start with a household example. The point of this exercise is to distinguish between the market value of assets and net worth, which is what’s left after debts are…Read more ›

Goodbye to All That: The Demise of Globalization and Imperial Pretensions

13 March 2020 @ 9:57 pm

Globalization and Imperial Pretensions have been decaying for years; now the tide has turned definitively against them. The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t cause the demise of globalization and Imperial Pretensions; it merely pushed the rickety structures over the edge. It’s human nature to reckon…Read more ›

[KR1513] Keiser Report | Thinking Exponentially

13 March 2020 @ 12:30 am

In this final episode of Keiser Report from Los Angeles, Max and Stacy discuss the exponential growth in debt and dollars that preceded the pandemic sweeping through some of the world’s major economies. They discuss the oil and stock market…Read more ›

And Then Came the Lawsuits: Pandemic in a Litigious Society

12 March 2020 @ 6:38 pm

Never mind prevention or vaccines; the big question is “who can we sue after this blows over to rake in millions of dollars?” Yes, this is pathetic, tragic, perverse and evil, but that’s reality in a hyper-litigious society like the U.S.…Read more ›

What the Fed Can Do: Print and Buy, Buy, Buy

10 March 2020 @ 5:39 pm

Much has been written about what the Federal Reserve cannot do: it can’t stop the Covid-19 pandemic or reverse the economic damage unleashed by the pandemic. But let’s not overlook what the Fed can do: create U.S. dollars out of thin…Read more ›

The Gathering Storm: Could Covid-19 Overwhelm Us in the Months Ahead?

10 March 2020 @ 5:37 pm

The present disconnect between the science of Covid-19 and the status quo’s complacency is truly crazy-making, as we face a binary situation: either the science is correct and all the complacent are wrong, or the science is false and all the…Read more ›

[KR1511] Keiser Report | Painting Pandemic with Alex Schaefer

7 March 2020 @ 2:04 pm

In this episode of Keiser Report from Los Angeles, Max and Stacy discuss deglobalization as supply shocks hit the world in the midst of a pandemic… even if the WHO won’t call it that. They talk about an opinion piece…Read more ›

Did Covid-19 Just Pop All the Global Financial Bubbles?

5 March 2020 @ 4:39 pm

Even though the first-order effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are still impossible to predict, it’s already possible to ask: did the pandemic pop all the global financial bubbles? The reason we can ask this question is the entire bull mania of…Read more ›

The Limits of Force: A Bayonet in the Back Will Not Restore China’s Economy

5 March 2020 @ 4:35 pm

The Chinese authorities threatening to punish workers who refuse to return to work are getting a lesson in the limits of force in an unprecedented national trauma: a bayonet in the back will not restore the legitimacy and confidence that have…Read more ›