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Trading economics – Imports and exports per country.

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Tracking Subsidies, Promoting Accountability in Economic Development.

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

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

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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:

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International finance and business news.

12 Years Of Data Prove China's Belt & Road Initiative Is A Debt Trap

19 October 2025 @ 3:20 am

12 Years Of Data Prove China's Belt & Road Initiative Is A Debt Trap Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times, After 12 years, Beijing’s four major defenses against the Belt and Road “debt trap” argument are dispelled.

These Are The Cars With The Best Resale Value In 2025

19 October 2025 @ 2:45 am

These Are The Cars With The Best Resale Value In 2025 Cars are one of the most significant purchases people make, but unlike real estate, their value drops quickly. To help you protect your investment, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu created this ranking highlighting the 13 cars with the best resale value in America, as of 2025. This means that all of the models shown in this graphic are from the 2022 model year.

The Gold And Silver Boom Is Ominous

19 October 2025 @ 2:10 am

The Gold And Silver Boom Is Ominous Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve not seen days like these for gold and silver since the late 1970s. It is nothing short of spectacular for investors and hoarders of the tried and true metals. People who have kept the faith in the real are being rewarded. For everyone else, these are scary signs concerning what might be coming our way.

US Drops To Historic Low In 'Most Powerful Passports' Ranking

19 October 2025 @ 1:35 am

US Drops To Historic Low In 'Most Powerful Passports' Ranking The United States has slid off the Top 10 most powerful passports for the first time since Henley & Partners started publishing their index 20 years ago. As Statista's Anna Fleck details below, where the U.S. appeared in rank seven last year when it enabled citizens to enter 188 countries without major restrictions, it has now dropped to rank 12, with visa-free entry to just 180.

The World Has Woken Up To China's Supply Chain Weaponization: Navarro

19 October 2025 @ 1:00 am

The World Has Woken Up To China's Supply Chain Weaponization: Navarro Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times, The world has now woken up to the consequences of China dominating global supply chains, said White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. “That’s kind of the state of play,” he said at an Oct. 17 event at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The world has fundamentally changed based on what we’ve observed, and the world will not go back to sleep on this.”

More Americans Experienced Homelessness During Biden's Term

19 October 2025 @ 12:25 am

More Americans Experienced Homelessness During Biden's Term The number of adults experiencing homelessness is on the rise in the United States. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 771,480 people were living in a state of homelessness in 2024, marking an 18 percent increase from the year before.

No Kings Kicks Off Across Country As States Prepare For Violence

19 October 2025 @ 12:15 am

No Kings Kicks Off Across Country As States Prepare For Violence The billionaire-funded 'No Kings' protests kicked off on Saturday, with what organizers claim are more than 2,600 protests across the country against "authoritarian power grabs" by the Trump administration [which are promptly halted by activist judges who overrule the 'king' every time].

Most Of The Population Of The World Lives In A Nation Where Christians Are Being Persecuted

18 October 2025 @ 11:50 pm

Most Of The Population Of The World Lives In A Nation Where Christians Are Being Persecuted Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, There are about 8 billion people living in our world today, and well over half of them live in a country where Christians are being persecuted.

Engineering Desperation

18 October 2025 @ 11:15 pm

Engineering Desperation 'Camus' writes on X that in a stark analysis, journalist Whitney Webb dissects the fundamental mechanism of control being rolled out globally: the desperate need for our consent.

Nearly 7 In 10 American Adults Meet New Definition Of Obese: Study

18 October 2025 @ 10:40 pm

Nearly 7 In 10 American Adults Meet New Definition Of Obese: Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Almost 70 percent of American adults are considered obese under a revamped definition of obesity, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the JAMA Network Open and conducted by researchers affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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

Ivory Coast warns citizens over surge in election disinformation

19 October 2025 @ 4:00 am

Authorities have linked fake stories to accounts in nearby countries run by Russia-aligned military juntas

France’s wealthy shift funds to Luxembourg and Switzerland

19 October 2025 @ 4:00 am

Political turmoil and tax threats have accelerated investment flows to safe havens, asset managers say

Labour braces for defeat in Caerphilly by-election

19 October 2025 @ 4:00 am

Governing party faces potential loss of Senedd control amid Reform and Plaid Cymru surge in Welsh heartlands

Apple’s biggest iPhone overhaul in years ignites upgrade frenzy

19 October 2025 @ 4:00 am

Extended wait times and generous trade-in deals signal surging demand for newly redesigned device

Peru’s new president takes on ‘Generation Z’ unrest

19 October 2025 @ 4:00 am

José Jerí wants to convince an angry public he can fight crime — and last longer than his predecessors

‘Shoestring’ R&D budgets force India to rely on Chinese tech, says steel tycoon

19 October 2025 @ 4:00 am

JSW chair Sajjan Jindal calls for country to boost research and development spending as he prepares to launch EV brand

Offshore wind buffeted by economic and political storms

19 October 2025 @ 4:00 am

Higher interest rates, supply chain strains and Trump opposition stifle industry’s boom

US says Hamas could breach ceasefire with attack on Palestinians

19 October 2025 @ 12:15 am

State department said it would take measures to protect civilians in Gaza if the militant group took planned action

Chinese tech giants pause stablecoin plans after Beijing steps in

19 October 2025 @ 12:00 am

Regulators raise concerns about the rise of privately controlled currencies

Hamas returns bodies as fragile Gaza ceasefire holds

18 October 2025 @ 8:53 pm

Handover takes place as enclave’s civil defence accuses Israel of killing nine people

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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.

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Venture capital technology news

Abstract or die: Why AI enterprises can't afford rigid vector stacks

18 October 2025 @ 9:00 am

Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud measures and gen AI applications across industries. There are a deluge of options: PostgreSQL with pgvector, MySQL HeatWave, DuckDB VSS, SQLite VSS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus and several others.The riches of choices sound like a boon to companies. But just beneath, a growing problem looms: Stack instability. New vector DBs appear each quarter, with disparate APIs, indexing schemes and performance trade-offs. Today's ideal choice may look dated or limiting tomorrow.To business AI teams, volatility translates into lock-in risks and migration hell. Most projects begin life with lightweight engines like DuckDB or SQLite for prototyping, then move to Postgre

Developers can now add live Google Maps data to Gemini-powered AI app outputs

17 October 2025 @ 10:31 pm

Google is adding a new feature for third-party developers building atop its Gemini AI models that rivals like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and the growing array of Chinese open source options are unlikely to get anytime soon: grounding with Google Maps.This addition allows developers to connect Google's Gemini AI models' reasoning capabilities with live geospatial data from Google Maps, enabling applications to deliver detailed, location-relevant responses to user queries—such as business hours, reviews, or the atmosphere of a specific venue. By tapping into data from over 250 million places, developers can now build more intelligent and responsive location-aware experiences.This is particularly useful for applications where proximity, real-time availability, or location-specific personalization matter—such as local search, delivery services

Cisco warns enterprises: Without tapping machine data, your AI strategy is incomplete

17 October 2025 @ 6:10 pm

Cisco executives make the case that the distinction between product and model companies is disappearing, and that accessing the 55% of enterprise data growth that current AI ignores will separate winners from losers.VentureBeat recently caught up with Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer and DJ Sampath, Senior Vice President of AI Software and Platform, to gain new insights into a compelling thesis both leaders share. They and their teams contend that every successful product company must become an AI model company to survive the next decade.When one considers how compressed product lifecycles are becoming, combined with the many advantages of digital twin technology to accelerate time-to-market of next-gen products, the thesis makes sense.The conversation revealed why this transformation is inevitable, backed by solid data points. The team contends that 55% of all data growth is machine data t

Codev lets enterprises avoid vibe coding hangovers with a team of agents that generate and document code

17 October 2025 @ 5:45 pm

For many software developers using generative AI, vibe coding is a double-edged sword. The process delivers rapid prototypes but often leaves a trail of brittle, undocumented code that creates significant technical debt. A new open-source platform, Codev, addresses this by proposing a fundamental shift: treating the natural language conversation with an AI as part of the actual source code. Codev is based on SP(IDE)R, a framework designed to turn vibe-coding conversations into structured, versioned, and auditable assets that become part of the code repository.What is Codev?At its core, Codev is a methodology that treats natural language context as an integral part of the development lifecycle as opposed to a disposable artifact as is the

World's largest open-source multimodal dataset delivers 17x training efficiency, unlocking enterprise AI that connects documents, audio and video

17 October 2025 @ 1:00 pm

AI models are only as good as the data they're trained on. That data generally needs to be labeled, curated and organized before models can learn from it in an effective way.One of the big missing links in the AI ecosystem has been the availability of a large high-quality open-source multimodal dataset. That changes today with the debut of the EMM-1 dataset which is comprised of 1 billion data pairs and 100M data groups across 5 modalities: text, image, video, audio and 3d point clouds. Multimodal datasets combine different types of data that AI systems can process together. This mirrors how humans perceive the world using multiple senses simultaneously. These datasets enable AI systems to make richer inferences by understanding relationships across data types, rather than processing each modality in isolation.EMM-1 is developed by data labeling

Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative

17 October 2025 @ 2:40 am

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite their reputation among some critics as being "fancy autocorrect," generative AI models actually generate their outputs by choosing from a distribution of the most probable next tokens (units of information) to fill out their response.Asking an LLM: "What is the capital of France?" will have it sample its probability distribution for France, capitals, cities, etc. to arrive at the answer "Paris." But that answer could come in the format of "The capital of France is Paris," or simply "Paris" or "Paris, though it was Versailles at one point." Still, those of us that use these models frequently day-to-day will note that sometimes, their answers can feel annoyingly repetitive or similar. A common joke about coffee is recy

How Anthropic’s ‘Skills’ make Claude faster, cheaper, and more consistent for business workflows

16 October 2025 @ 4:00 pm

Anthropic launched a new capability on Thursday that allows its Claude AI assistant to tap into specialized expertise on demand, marking the company's latest effort to make artificial intelligence more practical for enterprise workflows as it chases rival OpenAI in the intensifying competition over AI-powered software development.The feature, called Skills, enables users to create folders containing instructions, code scripts, and reference materials that Claude can automatically load when relevant to a task. The system marks a fundamental shift in how organizations can customize AI assistants, moving beyond one-off prompts to reusable packages of domain expertise that work consistently across an entire company."Skills are based on our belief and vision that as model intelligence continues to improve, we'll continue mo

Amazon and Chobani adopt Strella's AI interviews for customer research as fast-growing startup raises $14M

16 October 2025 @ 2:00 pm

One year after emerging from stealth, Strella has raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered customer research platform, the company announced Thursday. The round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Decibel Partners, Bain Future Back Ventures, MVP Ventures and 645 Ventures, comes as enterprises increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to understand customers faster and more deeply than traditional methods allow.The investment marks a sharp acceleration for the startup founded by Lydia Hylton and Priya Krishnan, two former consultants and product managers who watched companies struggle with a customer research process th

Microsoft launches 'Hey Copilot' voice assistant and autonomous agents for all Windows 11 PCs

16 October 2025 @ 1:00 pm

Microsoft is fundamentally reimagining how people interact with their computers, announcing Thursday a sweeping transformation of Windows 11 that brings voice-activated AI assistants, autonomous software agents, and contextual intelligence to every PC running the operating system — not just premium devices with specialized chips.The announcement represents Microsoft's most aggressive push yet to integrate generative artificial intelligence into the desktop computing experience, moving beyond the chatbot interfaces that have defined the first wave of consumer AI products toward a more ambient, conversational model where users can simply talk to their computers and have AI agents complete complex tasks on their behalf."When we think about what the promise of an

ACE prevents context collapse with ‘evolving playbooks’ for self-improving AI agents

16 October 2025 @ 12:00 pm

A new framework from Stanford University and SambaNova addresses a critical challenge in building robust AI agents: context engineering. Called Agentic Context Engineering (ACE), the framework automatically populates and modifies the context window of large language model (LLM) applications by treating it as an “evolving playbook” that creates and refines strategies as the agent gains experience in its environment.ACE is designed to overcome key limitations of other context-engineering frameworks, preventing the model’s context from degrading as it accumulates more information. Experiments show that ACE works for both optimizing system prompts and managing an agent's memory, outperforming other methods while also being significantly more efficient.The challenge of context engineeringAdvanced AI ap

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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 ›