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.

British Chat Forums Shutter To Avoid New Internet Policing Law

25 March 2025 @ 12:05 pm

British Chat Forums Shutter To Avoid New Internet Policing Law Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), British chat forums are shutting themselves down rather than face regulatory burdens recently applied to internet policing laws. On March 17, the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act, a law that regulates internet spaces, officially kicked into force.

Alibaba's Chairman Warns About "The Beginning" Of AI Data Center Bubble

25 March 2025 @ 11:45 am

Alibaba's Chairman Warns About "The Beginning" Of AI Data Center Bubble The news of the (extremely) cheaper Chinese DeepSeek response to OpenAI's ChatGPT — "40–50x more efficient than other large language models," according to Goldman's Rich Privorotsky in the days following DeepSeek's launch earlier this year — ushered in a new theme: doing more with less and the mounting risks of an emerging AI data center bubble. On Tuesday, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Joe Tsai told the audience at the HSBC Global Investment Summit in Hong Kong that the hundreds of billions of dollars in AI data center investments in the US appear to be the start of a bubble.  "I start to see the beginning of some ki

Nationwide Injunctions Pit Executive Versus Judicial Authority

25 March 2025 @ 11:20 am

Nationwide Injunctions Pit Executive Versus Judicial Authority Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump’s agenda has been slowed by a long list of orders issued by federal judges against his policies. Those orders include many that are nationwide in scope.

These Are The Most And Least Stressed States In 2025

25 March 2025 @ 10:55 am

These Are The Most And Least Stressed States In 2025 Americans face a range of stressors—rising prices, job pressures, relationship strains—but 77% say the future of the nation is a major source of anxiety. Stress levels, however, vary widely by state, according to WalletHub. To find where life might feel a little less tense, WalletHub analyzed all 50 states using 40 indicators, including work hours, sleep habits, and personal bankruptcy rates. To identify the most and least stressed states, WalletHub ranked all 50 based on four key categories: work, money, family, and health-related stress. Using 40 weighted metrics scored on a 100-point scale, each state received a composite scor

The Real Importance Of The Latest Russian-Pakistani Naval Drills

25 March 2025 @ 10:30 am

The Real Importance Of The Latest Russian-Pakistani Naval Drills Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Pakistan continues relying on Russia to pragmatically rebalance ties with China...

Italy "Eager" To Help Trump Solve Biden's Egg Crisis 

25 March 2025 @ 9:45 am

Italy "Eager" To Help Trump Solve Biden's Egg Crisis  The Biden-Harris regime's questionable handling of the nation's food supply chain—which led to the culling of 150 million egg-laying chickens amid the avian flu crisis—forced the Trump administration to fix the mess by scouring the globe for eggs over the last several weeks. The latest reports indicate that Trump officials have reached out to Italian producers.  Gian Luca Bagnara, head of the Assoavi Italian Association of Egg Producers, told Bloomberg that a representative from the U.S. Embassy had inquired about commercial poultry farm export capacity over the next six mo

Ed Dowd Fears A 'Short, But Deep' Recession Coming As DOGE Exposes 'Mind-Shocking' Fraud That Propped Up Biden's Economy

25 March 2025 @ 9:11 am

Ed Dowd Fears A 'Short, But Deep' Recession Coming As DOGE Exposes 'Mind-Shocking' Fraud That Propped Up Biden's Economy Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com is back with an update of a report on “Danger of Deep Worldwide Recession in 2025.”   It was not just heavy government spending on illegal immigration, but “mind shocking” fraud that has been revealed with DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).  

7 Actions That NATO Countries Are Taking Which Indicate That Something Really Big Is Coming

25 March 2025 @ 9:00 am

7 Actions That NATO Countries Are Taking Which Indicate That Something Really Big Is Coming Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If peace is on the way, why are they feverishly preparing for World War III?  It appears to me that NATO countries are convinced that something really big is coming.  Is there something that they know that they aren’t telling the rest of us?  As I discussed yesterday, things in the Middle East are really heating up, and the conflict in

Houthis Say New US Airstrikes Obliterated Residential Neighborhood

25 March 2025 @ 8:15 am

Houthis Say New US Airstrikes Obliterated Residential Neighborhood At this point the Pentagon has engaged in over a week of 'continuous' operations in Yemen, and Monday has seen US airstrikes pound Houthi sites across the country once again. The Houthis are now reporting that American strikes have hit a residential neighborhood, resulting in casualties. "The rebel-controlled SABA news agency reported, citing health officials, that the US-attributed strike on a residential neighborhood in western Sanaa killed one and injured 13, including three children," says regional media. The person killed was reportedly a senior Houthi official. Israeli media

Adolescence: Netflix Series Demonizes Young White Men And The Manosphere

25 March 2025 @ 7:30 am

Adolescence: Netflix Series Demonizes Young White Men And The Manosphere The progressive media is swooning over a new miniseries produced in Britain and distributed by Netflix called 'Adolescence', and after reviewing the story it's easy to see why.  British government officials are hailing the show as a wake up call and are using it to promote online censorship of the "Manosphere".  Leftist journalists are seeking to drum up artificial interest, calling it a "masterpiece" that exposes the toxic nature of masculinity.  At a time when the political left is losing the culture war on almost every front it's not surprising that they would hyper-promote an otherwise forgettable series that panders to the woke demographic.  Its depiction of a teen murder, driven

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

Trump defends national security adviser over chat breach

25 March 2025 @ 3:13 pm

Mike Waltz faces growing pressure to step down after classified details shared with journalist

Copper to hit $12,000 this year, say major trading groups

25 March 2025 @ 2:41 pm

Threat of US tariffs and growing global demand seen as likely to support prices

Israel passes budget in boost to Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition

25 March 2025 @ 1:40 pm

Opposition condemns bill that will lead to massive increase in military and defence spending

Turkish police arrest dozens for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan and his family

25 March 2025 @ 1:22 pm

Crackdown comes after jailing of Istanbul mayor sparked biggest street protests in more than a decade

Britons could make satellite calls using smartphones by end of 2025

25 March 2025 @ 1:11 pm

Ofcom hopes to end ‘not spots’ in networks, but access is likely to be limited to very rural areas

Europe can’t repeat its mistakes in Turkey

25 March 2025 @ 1:09 pm

As Ankara’s future hangs in the balance, EU leaders must fill the void left by Washington and defend democracy

Trump puts Venezuelan oil importers in tariff crosshairs

25 March 2025 @ 1:00 pm

Also in today’s newsletter, the prospect of a new nuclear arms race and how lawyers are reacting to Trump’s attacks

Reeves criticised by fellow minister over ‘freebie’ tickets

25 March 2025 @ 12:31 pm

Matthew Pennycook says decision to accept seats in O2 box is not ‘appropriate’

Everyone misunderstands Jay Powell

25 March 2025 @ 12:30 pm

That is a problem for the Fed; plus a homily on the meaning of dovishness

Ministers give green light to £10bn Lower Thames Crossing

25 March 2025 @ 11:37 am

Private sector expected to finance much of project to east of London after years of delay

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

From alerts to autonomy: How leading SOCs use AI copilots to fight signal overload and staffing shortfalls

25 March 2025 @ 12:33 am

SOCs are seeing false positive rates drop 70%, while shaving 40+ hrs a week of manual triage thanks to the rapid advances in AI copilots.

Midjourney’s surprise: new research on making LLMs write more creatively

24 March 2025 @ 9:36 pm

There's still a lot of juice left to be squeezed, cognitively and performance-wise, from classic Transformer-based, text-focused LLMs.

Journalist Christopher Dring teams with Geoff Keighley to unveil The Game Business publication

24 March 2025 @ 8:15 pm

Journalist Chris Dring has launched The Game Business, a new media brand for games, with backing from Geoff Keighley.

DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI

24 March 2025 @ 7:50 pm

DeepSeek's free 685B-parameter AI model runs at 20 tokens/second on Apple's Mac Studio, outperforming Claude Sonnet while using just 200 watts, challenging OpenAI's cloud-dependent business model.

The issues game developers are facing in 2025 | IGDA interview

24 March 2025 @ 3:30 pm

Game developers are among the most creative people on the planet, but they have had a tough 2.5 years with more than 35,000 layoffs across gaming. Some of those cutbacks were expected to ease by 2025, but we’ve seen 1,200-plus layoffs in the first quarter. The troubles are so acute that, for the second year […]

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle hits PS5 on April 17

24 March 2025 @ 3:00 pm

Microsoft and Bethesda's big Xbox hit, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, debuts on Sony's PlayStation 5 on April 17.

Riot Games on why successful modern studios rely on cloud infrastructure

24 March 2025 @ 2:50 pm

In this VB Spotlight event, learn how Riot Games is leaning on cloud infrastructure to build award-winning games.

The high- and low-level context behind Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote | Dion Harris interview

24 March 2025 @ 1:30 pm

Dion Harris of Nvidia helped us piece together the context for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's GTC 2025 keynote.

Pearl Abyss unveils graphics power of the BlackSpace Engine for Crimson Desert

24 March 2025 @ 1:00 pm

Pearl Abyss unveiled the believable, hyper-realistic graphics of the BlackSpace Engine that is at the heart of Crimson Desert.

‘Gradually then suddenly’: Is AI job displacement following this pattern?

23 March 2025 @ 8:15 pm

Many technological shifts have coincided with economic downturns. Will 2025 be the year AI not only augments jobs but starts to replace them?

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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 ›