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.

Arctic Defense: The Growing Geopolitical Battle For The North

22 February 2025 @ 4:25 am

Arctic Defense: The Growing Geopolitical Battle For The North Authored by Brian Giesbrecht via The Epoch Times, The Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) runs north of the Arctic Circle from Alaska in the west to Baffin Island in the east, then continues across Greenland. It was built by the United States, with the cooperation of Canada, at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s as a defence against the Soviet Union. Most of the self-sufficient bases on this

First In-Orbit Image Released From Classified X-37 Spaceplane

22 February 2025 @ 4:00 am

First In-Orbit Image Released From Classified X-37 Spaceplane On Thursday evening, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs published the first-ever in-orbit image captured by Boeing's X-37 spaceplane, which was shared on the DVIDS website. USAF Public Affairs described the photo, taken by an onboard camera designed to monitor the X-37's "health and safety," as showing Earth in the distant background during a series of "experiments in a highly elliptical orbit in 2024."  "As part of the X-37 B's seventh mission, the vehicle executed a series of first-of-its-kind maneuvers, called aerobrak

Mapping The Growth Of Government

22 February 2025 @ 3:35 am

Mapping The Growth Of Government Submitted by OpenTheBooks As DOGE continues searching for and flagging waste, fraud and abuse across the federal government, American taxpayers are hearing about a lot of outrageous spending – and obscure agencies and projects – for the first time. The scandalous spending at USAID on foreign programs (think a transgender opera in Colombia) and progressive NGO’s (think The Aspen Institute) set off an explosion of headlines. Separately, our ow

These Are The Countries Who Depend On Remittances The Most

22 February 2025 @ 3:10 am

These Are The Countries Who Depend On Remittances The Most Remittance inflows to low- and middle-income countries rose to $685 billion in 2024, up from $647 billion the previous year, according to estimates from the World Bank.  Globally, remittances also grew, reaching $905 billion. In absolute terms, India ($129 billion), Mexico ($68 billion), and China ($48 billion) remained the top recipients of remittances in 2024. However, it’s smaller and poorer economies that feel the impact the most, as these inflows make up a significant share of their economies. Tajikistan, where remittances accounted for 45.4 percent

Former CNBC Analyst To Admit Conning Investors Out Of Nearly $3 Million

22 February 2025 @ 2:45 am

Former CNBC Analyst To Admit Conning Investors Out Of Nearly $3 Million Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former CNBC financial analyst James Arthur McDonald faces decades behind bars after defrauding investors out of at least $2.7 million, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Feb. 19.

Here's When Every Continent's Population Will Peak This Century

22 February 2025 @ 2:20 am

Here's When Every Continent's Population Will Peak This Century After 350 straight years of global population growth - including a 4x surge from 2 billion in the year 1920 - this trend is finally set to reverse. Earth’s population is expected to peak in 2084 at 10.3 billion after which it will begin tapering off. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, explores every continent’s population from 1975 to 2100, with estimates used from 2025 onward.

Blockbuster Yale Study: Millions Of Long COVID Patients Might Actually Be Vaccine Injured

22 February 2025 @ 1:55 am

Blockbuster Yale Study: Millions Of Long COVID Patients Might Actually Be Vaccine Injured Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle, Yale researchers released a study today that posits millions of Americans thought to have Long COVID may have been misdiagnosed and actually have post-vaccination syndrome caused by exposure to the spike protein in COVID vaccines. Spike protein produced by the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines triggers the body’s

Mapping Every Known US Military Base Overseas

22 February 2025 @ 1:30 am

Mapping Every Known US Military Base Overseas This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavia Rao, locates the known overseas bases of the American military, categorized by who controls the base. In red are the ones controlled by the U.S., and blue are ones controlled by the host country.

Nearly 2 Dozen Trinitarios Gang Members Arrested In Massachusetts

22 February 2025 @ 1:05 am

Nearly 2 Dozen Trinitarios Gang Members Arrested In Massachusetts Authored by Rachel Acenas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly two dozen members of a violent transnational gang were arrested and charged in Massachusetts, federal authorities announced Feb. 19.

Social Security Chief Says Millions Of Dead People On Record 'Not Necessarily Receiving Benefits'

22 February 2025 @ 12:15 am

Social Security Chief Says Millions Of Dead People On Record 'Not Necessarily Receiving Benefits' Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The new head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) on Wednesday addressed speculations that millions of deceased individuals over the age of 100 may be receiving Social Security benefits, stating that they are likely exaggerated.

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.

Trump considers tariffs to counter digital services taxes on Big Tech

22 February 2025 @ 12:25 am

President orders probes into levies imposed by EU, UK and Turkey on US companies

£67bn of UK investors’ money is in underperforming funds

21 February 2025 @ 11:00 pm

Wealth floundering in so-called ‘dog’ funds rises 26 per cent in six months, as investor Nick Train’s UK Equity product named among them

US stocks post worst slide in two months on gloomy economic data

21 February 2025 @ 10:35 pm

Sentiment among businesses and consumers cools sharply as tariffs and inflation take a toll

Ukraine to sign critical minerals deal ‘in the very short term’, US claims

21 February 2025 @ 10:35 pm

National security adviser Mike Waltz tells conference that ‘economic partnership’ will be ‘good’ for Kyiv

Germany’s Merz says Europe can no longer rely on US protection

21 February 2025 @ 8:12 pm

Frontrunner for chancellor suggests possible nuclear co-operation with the UK and France

Eric Adams: the mayor at the heart of Trump’s attempt to reshape the DoJ

21 February 2025 @ 7:26 pm

Prosecutors and New York City staff resign as Washington intervenes in long-running corruption scandal

Global Counsel cleared of failing to disclose Qatari work

21 February 2025 @ 7:05 pm

Ruling on advisory firm likely to renew criticism of disclosure exemption for foreign subsidiaries

What’s really behind Trump’s abrupt pivot to Russia?

21 February 2025 @ 7:00 pm

The US president has shocked allies by opening talks with Moscow and criticising Ukraine. Will this dramatic shift in US foreign policy hold?

Denise Cheung, the US prosecutor resisting Trump

21 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

A lifetime public servant, the by-the-book lawyer is the latest to defend the integrity of an increasingly imperilled justice system

Geopolitical rupture sparks quiet market rebellion

21 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

It does not take a deep scratch beneath the surface to uncover investor nerves

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

Write Warz developers on how creative writing makes a hilarious party game

21 February 2025 @ 11:14 pm

Write Warz is an upcoming party game centered around communal creative writing. Boltz Entertainment describes how it came together.

Supergiant Games battles back accusations it is working around SAG-AFTRA strike

21 February 2025 @ 9:35 pm

After a public callout, the developers of Hades took to social media to clarify that they are not intending to recast union voice actors.

The remarkable banter of Cory Barlog and Neil Druckmann on the creative process

21 February 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Cory Barlog and Neil Druckmann had a remarkable conversation at the Dice Summit about their approaches to creativity.

Game investments and M&A totaled $17.5B across 985 deals in 2024 | DDM

21 February 2025 @ 5:00 pm

As the games industry moves on from “survive til 25,” 2024 games investment and M&A data revealed recovery and improvement, DDM said.

How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

21 February 2025 @ 1:59 am

A 1B small language model can beat a 405B large language model in reasoning tasks if provided with the right test-time scaling strategy.

Together AI’s $305M bet: Reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 are increasing, not decreasing, GPU demand

21 February 2025 @ 1:30 am

The demands of DeepSeek's advanced reasoning capabilities are pushing enterprises toward Together AI's optimized infrastructure platform.

Beloved game veteran Carter Lipscomb passes away

20 February 2025 @ 11:47 pm

Carter Lipscomb, a game industry veteran with a big personality, has passed away.

Marvel Rivals disrupted the Twitch scene from launch | StreamElements

20 February 2025 @ 11:46 pm

StreamElements latest report shows the success of Marvel Rivals, which jumped to the top 10 most-watched games on Twitch.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

20 February 2025 @ 6:47 pm

OpenAI's ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly users and doubles enterprise adoption to 2M+ users, signaling major AI shift as company prepares GPT-5 launch amid growing competition from DeepSeek and xAI.

Medical training’s AI leap: How agentic RAG, open-weight LLMs and real-time case insights are shaping a new generation of doctors at NYU Langone

20 February 2025 @ 6:20 pm

NYU Langone has built an LLM research companion and medical advisor, and is pioneering what it calls AI-driven “precision medical education."

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 ›