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:

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International finance and business news.

Deep State JOLTED: Government Job Openings Plummet To 5 Year Low As Total Hires, Quits Jump

29 April 2025 @ 2:59 pm

Deep State JOLTED: Government Job Openings Plummet To 5 Year Low As Total Hires, Quits Jump One month after the BLS reported that in February the labor market reverted to its deteriorating trendline, when the US had 7.568 million job openings (missing estimates of 7.655 million), a drop from the 7.762 million in January (revised from 7.740 million), and down 877,000 from the prior year, moments ago the latest JOLTS report showed that in March the labor market continued to deteriorate, and the number of job openings declined again, this time by 288K, from a downward revised 7.480MM to 7.192MM, the lowest since September 2024.

"Nothing Is Getting Better" - Texas Services Sector Outlook Slumps, Prices Soar

29 April 2025 @ 2:45 pm

"Nothing Is Getting Better" - Texas Services Sector Outlook Slumps, Prices Soar Following yesterday's slump in a survey of Texas Manufacturing firms, the Dallas Fed released their survey of Texas Services sector firms today, and it was just a big a shitshow. Perceptions of broader business conditions deteriorated further in April. The general business activity index dropped eight points to -19.4. In addition, outlooks worsened as the company outlook index retreated to a 34-month low of -15.5. The outlook uncertainty index jumped 13 points to 40.5 - its highest level since mid-2022.  Respondents’ expectations regarding future business activity continued to weaken in April.

GM Pulls Guidance And Pauses Buybacks Amidst "Tariff Uncertainty"

29 April 2025 @ 2:30 pm

GM Pulls Guidance And Pauses Buybacks Amidst "Tariff Uncertainty" GM stock dipped slightly Tuesday morning after the company pulled its annual profit forecast, citing significant uncertainty created by President Trump's evolving trade policies, according to Bloomberg, WSJ and multiple other outlets.  Despite reporting strong first-quarter results, the Detroit automaker warned investors not to rely on previous guidance due to the potentially "significant" impact of automotive tariffs. "We're telling folks not to rel

"Never A Consideration" - Amazon Denies Media Claims Of 'Tariff-Tracker'

29 April 2025 @ 2:25 pm

"Never A Consideration" - Amazon Denies Media Claims Of 'Tariff-Tracker' Update (1020ET): Well that didn't take long... Amazon has just issued a statement denying PunchBowl's reporting and explaining that showing tariffs costs on the main Amazon site was "never a consideration": “The team that runs our ultra low cost Amazon Haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products.  This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties.” Amazon's share price is rebounding on the statement...

Conference Board Consumer Expectations Plunge To 14 Year Lows; Inflation Expectations Soar

29 April 2025 @ 2:14 pm

Conference Board Consumer Expectations Plunge To 14 Year Lows; Inflation Expectations Soar Another day, another sentiment measure disappoints... US consumer confidence fell in April to an almost five-year low on growing pessimism about prospects for the economy and labor market due to tariffs. The Conference Board’s gauge of confidence decreased nearly 8 points to 86, the weakest since May 2020. This was the fifth straight monthly decline, the longest such stretch since 2008.  Worse still, consumer expectations for the next six months plunged to the lowest level since 2011, while a gauge of present conditions also fell.

​Putin Thanks Kim For 'Heroic' North Korean Troops That Helped Liberate Kursk

29 April 2025 @ 1:55 pm

​Putin Thanks Kim For 'Heroic' North Korean Troops That Helped Liberate Kursk For the first time the governments of Russia and North Korea have issued coordinated statements of high-level confirmation that North Korean troops were sent to fight for Russia against Ukraine, having been deployed months ago. The statements described that the large foreign troop contingency helped liberate Russia's Kursk border region, after a Ukrainian incursion and occupation which stretched all the way back to last August. Putin said Monday that the population would never forget the 'heroic' feats of North Korea’s special forces. "We will always honor the Korean heroes who gave their lives for Russia, for our common freedom, on par with their Russian brothers

Have You Built Your "Grid" Correctly?

29 April 2025 @ 1:35 pm

Have You Built Your "Grid" Correctly? By Michael Every of Rabobank Delusions of Homo Economicus aside, we each see the world differently via the unconscious cognitive ‘grid’ we all impose on it. Yet in highly unstable times, one needs to check if one’s grid is stable enough to cope. A week after boasting it had achieved 100% renewables energy power for the first time, Spain’s power grid suffered a crippling blackout, along with Portugal’s. Apparently, this was due to over-reliance on what are always fluctuating power sources vs. the base power that comes from fossil fuels, nuclear, or storage batteries. 

US Home Prices Hit A New Record High In February... Except In Tampa

29 April 2025 @ 1:14 pm

US Home Prices Hit A New Record High In February... Except In Tampa US home prices hit a new record high in February, according to the latest data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller, rising 0.4% MoM (as expected). However, the pace of price rises did slow modestly (after accelerating for the past three months) to +4.50% YoY...

Him & Hers, Novo Nordisk Partner To Sell Heavily Discounted Wegovy

29 April 2025 @ 1:05 pm

Him & Hers, Novo Nordisk Partner To Sell Heavily Discounted Wegovy Novo Nordisk is teaming up with major telehealth companies to sell its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy directly to U.S. consumers at a steep discount through its new direct-to-consumer pharmacy platform. For many, the monthly cost of Wegovy will now be more affordable than the average monthly payment for a new vehicle. Bloomberg reported that NovoCare will begin offering Wegovy through telehealth firms Hims & Hers Health, LifeMD, and Ro. The weight-loss drug will be offered as subscription models on Hims and Ro. Hims will sell Wegovy for $599 monthly, including a membership off

Tariff-Frontrunning Sends US Trade Deficit To New Record High In March

29 April 2025 @ 12:56 pm

Tariff-Frontrunning Sends US Trade Deficit To New Record High In March The US merchandise-trade deficit unexpectedly widened in March to a record as companies continued importing goods to get ahead of tariffs. The shortfall in goods trade grew 9.6% from a month earlier to $162 billion, Commerce Department data showed Tuesday.

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

Starbucks’ profit slumps as costs mount from turnaround effort

29 April 2025 @ 11:56 pm

Revenue at the coffee chain edges up but store operating expenses rise

Top Trump adviser struggled to soothe investors in talks after market tumult

29 April 2025 @ 11:39 pm

Stephen Miran met hedge funds and big asset managers after tariffs sparked Wall Street turmoil

Trump softens car tariffs as he visits industrial heartland in Michigan

29 April 2025 @ 11:02 pm

Executive order comes after industry voiced concerns that US trade war would raise costs

UK preparations for flooding and extreme weather ‘inadequate’

29 April 2025 @ 11:01 pm

Climate Change Committee report warns of threats to farming, infrastructure, health and homes

Ikea aims to lure city dwellers with store on London’s Oxford Street

29 April 2025 @ 11:01 pm

Swedish furniture retailer wants to expand beyond giant out-of-town warehouses

Private acquisitions strip more than $1tn from European equity markets

29 April 2025 @ 11:01 pm

Trend poses ‘much bigger threat’ to region’s capital markets than defections of listed groups to Wall Street, says report

Trump Media auditor says it was wrongly booted from US accountancy group

29 April 2025 @ 10:49 pm

Semple, Marchal & Cooper’s decision to take Donald Trump’s company as a client led to showdown, lawsuit claims

FirstFT: China steps up global propaganda push against US trade war

29 April 2025 @ 9:55 pm

Also in today’s newsletter, Canada’s Carney prepares to take on Trump, and China’s copper stockpiles set to run out

Trump’s first 100 days mark worst for US stock market since Gerald Ford

29 April 2025 @ 8:27 pm

S&P 500 has lost more than 7% since inauguration day in weakest start to a presidency since 1970s

UPS to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments

29 April 2025 @ 8:11 pm

Delivery group declines to update its outlook for the year owing to macroeconomic ‘uncertainty’

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.

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Venture capital technology news

Meta unleashes Llama API running 18x faster than OpenAI: Cerebras partnership delivers 2,600 tokens per second

29 April 2025 @ 8:02 pm

Meta partners with Cerebras to launch its new Llama API, offering developers AI inference speeds up to 18 times faster than traditional GPU solutions, challenging OpenAI and Google in the fast-growing AI services market.

EA and Respawn lay off more staff, cancel incubation projects

29 April 2025 @ 6:37 pm

Respawn has laid off yet more staff and canceled two early-stage projects, the latest of multiple round of layoffs at EA studios.

Meta’s first dedicated AI app is here with Llama 4 — but it’s more consumer than productivity or business oriented

29 April 2025 @ 6:19 pm

This mainstream exposure will likely accelerate a shift in what people expect not just from consumer apps, but from workplaces...

PlayNice’s MindLight aims to help kids manage stress and anxiety

29 April 2025 @ 4:00 pm

 PlayNice, the developer of proven, fun, and engaging games that prevent and treat mental health, today announces the launch of MindLight.

Tripp launches Kōkua AI as mental wellness coach across multiple platforms

29 April 2025 @ 1:30 pm

Tripp launched Kōkua AI, a mental wellness guide designed to deliver real-time, personalized emotional support across multiple platforms.

Gallium Studios finds Will Wright’s memories game, Proxi, as hard to pitch as The Sims

29 April 2025 @ 1:30 pm

When Will Wright pitched The Sims to his bosses at his own company years ago, he couldn’t get anyone excited about it. It was a miracle it shipped, and then it became the foundation for a franchise that has sold 200 million copies and generated $5 billion in revenues to date. Wright has some deja […]

xMEMS extends micro cooling fan-on-a-chip tech to AI data centers

29 April 2025 @ 1:00 pm

xMEMS Labs, a pioneer of MEMS-based chips, announced that its innovative µCooling fan-on-a-chip tech will be expanded to AI data centers.

Upheaval launches Dreamer Portal early access for AI-powered 3D game world creation

29 April 2025 @ 12:00 pm

Upheaval Games, founded by industry veterans from Blizzard, Tencent, and Unity, announced early access to The Dreamer Portal.

IXI raises $36.5M for world’s first autofocus glasses

29 April 2025 @ 10:00 am

IXI has raised $36.5 million in funding to launch the world’s first autofocus glasses which can correct vision dynamically.

ONE Fight Arena is a free-to-play combat sports mobile game from Notre Game and ONE

29 April 2025 @ 2:00 am

ONE Championship (ONE) and Notre Game, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, today launched the mobile game ONE Fight Arena.

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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 ›