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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

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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.

Trump Says Tech Giants Must Bear Cost Of Data Center Electricity, As Microsoft Joins OpenAI In Demanding Subsidies

13 January 2026 @ 8:25 pm

Trump Says Tech Giants Must Bear Cost Of Data Center Electricity, As Microsoft Joins OpenAI In Demanding Subsidies We have been warning about this for months... In one year, this will be the most popular chart on this site pic.twitter.com/h93gWXMoNL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 11, 2025 ... and months.... between exploding electricity bills and lack of jobs for grads, a new luddite revolution is coming - they will be burning down data centers within a year —

SBA Investigating $1.2 Trillion On Payments As Part Of Fraud Probe: Loeffler

13 January 2026 @ 8:05 pm

SBA Investigating $1.2 Trillion On Payments As Part Of Fraud Probe: Loeffler Authored by Travis Gilmore and Jen Jekielek via The Epoch Times, Federal officials are reviewing approximately $1.2 trillion in payouts to root out fraudsters, according to Kelly Loeffler, administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA). “Federal contracting and the fraud that happens within it in Washington, D.C., around these programs are probably the worst kept secret in Washington,” Loeffler said during an 

2026 Will Be Breakout Year For Autonomous Driving And Humanoid Robots; Deutsche Bank

13 January 2026 @ 7:45 pm

2026 Will Be Breakout Year For Autonomous Driving And Humanoid Robots; Deutsche Bank In a note out this week, analysts from Deutsche Bank led by Edison Yu said the global auto and mobility industry is entering a pivotal transition year, with 2026 shaping up as a major inflection point for both autonomous driving and humanoid robotics following the CES technology conference in Las Vegas. “We attended CES in Las Vegas last week and sensed a meaningful surge in enthusiasm and relevance,” the analysts wrote. “Vehicle autonomy (robotaxi + consumer L4), and most notably, humanoids took center stage at the show, illustrating the spread of AI to the physical world.”

Marxist Network Behind Pro-Maduro, Anti-ICE Protests Faces Congressional Scrutiny

13 January 2026 @ 7:25 pm

Marxist Network Behind Pro-Maduro, Anti-ICE Protests Faces Congressional Scrutiny Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times, After the U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro sent shockwaves worldwide, activist groups aligned with Marxist ideology and sympathetic to Chinese communist causes staged protests in America. The same network of groups that fueled anti-Israel protests and the June 2025 Los Angeles riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has organized dozens of pro-Maduro and anti-ICE protests around the country.

TradFi Trust & DeFi Dominance Favor Ethereum Over Bitcoin; StanChart

13 January 2026 @ 7:05 pm

TradFi Trust & DeFi Dominance Favor Ethereum Over Bitcoin; StanChart Standard Chartered's Geoff Kendrick raised his ETH forecasts in August 2025 to reflect Ethereum’s structural advantages, along with supportive regulatory developments and increased buying by ETFs and DATs. The outlook has turned more nuanced since then. In absolute terms, Bitcoin’s weaker-than-expected performance has prompted Kendricks to downgrade his BTC forecasts and push out our eventual USD 500,000 forecast to 2030 (also downgrading his ETH-USD forecasts for the next few years). However, in relative terms, the SnanChart crypto guru thinks prospects for Ethereum have turned more positive. He has therefore turned mo

Trump Admin Ends Temporary Protection For Somalis In US

13 January 2026 @ 6:45 pm

Trump Admin Ends Temporary Protection For Somalis In US Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has decided to end temporary protection for Somali nationals in the United States, officials said on Jan. 13.

Trump Admin And Taiwan Close To Finalizing Trade Pact; $100B In TSMC Plants Slated For Arizona

13 January 2026 @ 6:25 pm

Trump Admin And Taiwan Close To Finalizing Trade Pact; $100B In TSMC Plants Slated For Arizona The Trump administration and Taiwan are in the 'final stages' of negotiations on a tariff agreement which would see the United States lower tariffs on the self-governing island's exports to 15% from 20%. 

Stellar 30Y Auction Stops Through, Sees Solid Foreign Bidder Demand

13 January 2026 @ 6:24 pm

Stellar 30Y Auction Stops Through, Sees Solid Foreign Bidder Demand The last coupon auction of the first full week of 2026 was also the strongest one.  Moments ago the Treasury sold $22BN in 30Y paper in a very solid auction: the sale priced at a high yield of 4.825%, just fractionally higher than the 4.773% in December, and also stopped through the When Issued 4.833% by 0.8bps.

California Restricts Free Speech

13 January 2026 @ 6:05 pm

California Restricts Free Speech Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, California’s far-left Supreme Court has ordered restrictions on the speech and expressive conduct of California’s lawyers “at all times,” including during their unrelated business activities, political endeavors and personal lives.

US Holiday Spending Jumped In December, Signaling Consumer Strength Into 2026

13 January 2026 @ 5:45 pm

US Holiday Spending Jumped In December, Signaling Consumer Strength Into 2026 American consumers closed out the holiday season with a strong December spending surge, adding to evidence that household demand remains resilient even as confidence surveys show lingering unease about the economy. Retail sales during the final two months of 2025 rose 4.1 percent from a year earlier, according to a Jan. 12 report from the National Retail Federation (NRF), pointing to total spending of just more than $1 trillion. Retail sales excluding automobiles and gasoline stations rose 1.26 percent in December from November on a seasonally adjusted basis and increased 3.54 percent from 2024. Core retail sales—excluding restauran

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

Trump warns Iran to ‘show humanity’ or face ‘very strong action’

14 January 2026 @ 12:51 am

US president set to meet top aides at the White House about a possible intervention

Japan’s activists grapple with a new problem — success

14 January 2026 @ 12:01 am

Funds eye bigger and more aggressive tactics after swelling sizes make it harder to deploy capital

City minister in push to boost UK-EU financial services co-operation

14 January 2026 @ 12:01 am

Lucy Rigby tells FT that London and Brussels can increase investment and drive growth

Bain Capital names David Gross sole leader of private capital giant

13 January 2026 @ 11:58 pm

Prolific dealmaker will become sole managing partner in a wider transition

Plot to kill Costa Rican president uncovered, security chief says

13 January 2026 @ 11:46 pm

Allegation comes ahead of February 1 elections in which security is a top voter concern

Dimon warns Trump administration’s attacks on Fed could boost inflation

13 January 2026 @ 10:41 pm

JPMorgan chief says he has ‘enormous respect’ for central bank chair Jay Powell

Netflix preparing all-cash offer for Warner Bros to fend off Paramount

13 January 2026 @ 10:40 pm

Streaming service could convert terms for celebrated studio as Ellison-led rival appeals directly to shareholders

Trump says ‘help is on its way’ for Iranian protesters

13 January 2026 @ 10:38 pm

US president calls on demonstrators to ‘take over’ the country’s institutions

Reeves to unveil £45bn railway upgrade in northern England

13 January 2026 @ 10:35 pm

But chancellor only committing to ‘planning, development and design work’ worth £1.1bn during current parliament

US Senate introduces bill to stop military from occupying Nato territories

13 January 2026 @ 10:09 pm

Legislation would prevent American forces from using congressional funds to annex Greenland

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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

This new, dead simple prompt technique boosts accuracy on LLMs by up to 76% on non-reasoning tasks

13 January 2026 @ 7:57 pm

In the chaotic world of Large Language Model (LLM) optimization, engineers have spent the last few years developing increasingly esoteric rituals to get better answers. We’ve seen "Chain of Thought" (asking the model to think step-by-step and often, show those "reasoning traces" to the user), "Emotional Blackmail" (telling the model its career depends on the answer, or that it is being accused of sexual misconduct), and complex multi-shot prompting frameworks.But a new paper released by Google Research suggests that we may have been overthinking it. The researchers found that simply repeating the input query—literally copying and pasting the prompt so it appears twice—consistently improves performance across major models including Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude, and DeepSeek.The paper, titled "

Why Egnyte keeps hiring junior engineers despite the rise of AI coding tools

13 January 2026 @ 5:30 pm

Egnyte, the $1.5 billion cloud content governance company, has embedded AI coding tools across its global team of more than 350 developers — but not to reduce headcount. Instead, the company continues to hire junior engineers, using AI to accelerate onboarding, deepen codebase understanding, and shorten the path from junior to senior contributor. The approach challenges a dominant 2025 narrative that automation will replace developers, showing instead how enterprises are using AI to scale engineering capacity while keeping humans firmly in the loop.“To have engineers disappear or us not hiring junior engineers doesn't look like the likely outcome,” Amrit Jassal, Egnyte CTO and co-founder, told VentureBeat. “You've got to have people, you're training and doing all types of succession planning. The junior engineer of today is the senior engineer of tomorrow.”How Egnyte coders are using AI — with

DeepSeek’s conditional memory fixes silent LLM waste: GPU cycles lost to static lookups

13 January 2026 @ 4:00 pm

When an enterprise LLM retrieves a product name, technical specification, or standard contract clause, it's using expensive GPU computation designed for complex reasoning — just to access static information. This happens millions of times per day. Each lookup wastes cycles and inflates infrastructure costs. DeepSeek's newly released research on "conditional memory" addresses this architectural limitation directly. The work introduces Engram, a module that separates static pattern retrieval from dynamic reasoning. It delivers results that challenge assumptions about what memory is actually for in neural networks. The paper was co-authored by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng.Through systematic experiments DeepSeek found the optimal balance between comp

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

13 January 2026 @ 1:00 pm

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees.The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "agentic AI" movement — where software agents work alongside humans to complete complex tasks. The launch comes as Salesforce attempts to convince investors that artificial intelligence will bolster its products rather than render them obsolete."Slack

Why Sakana AI’s big win is a big deal for the future of enterprise agents

13 January 2026 @ 12:59 pm

In an impressive feat, Japanese startup Sakana AI’s coding agent ALE-Agent recently secured first place in the AtCoder Heuristic Contest (AHC058), a complex coding competition that involves complicated optimization problems — and a more difficult and perhaps telling challenge than benchmarks like HumanEval, which mostly test the ability to write isolated functions, and which many AI models and agents now regularly pass with ease ("benchmark saturation"). Sakana's accomplishment with ALE-Agent hints at a shift toward agents capable of autonomously optimizing themselves to navigate and perform well in complex, dynamic systems such as enterprise software stacks, workflows, and operational environments. In four hours, the agent used inference-time scaling to generate, test, and iterate over hundreds of solutions, solving a problem that typically requires deep intuition and time-consuming trial and er

Why your LLM bill is exploding — and how semantic caching can cut it by 73%

12 January 2026 @ 7:00 pm

Our LLM API bill was growing 30% month-over-month. Traffic was increasing, but not that fast. When I analyzed our query logs, I found the real problem: Users ask the same questions in different ways."What's your return policy?," "How do I return something?", and "Can I get a refund?" were all hitting our LLM separately, generating nearly identical responses, each incurring full API costs.Exact-match caching, the obvious first solution, captured only 18% of these redundant calls. The same semantic question, phrased differently, bypassed the cache entirely.So, I implemented semantic caching based on what queries mean, not how they're worded. After implementing it, our cache hit rate increased to 67%, reducing LLM API costs by 73%. But getting there requires solving problems that naive implementations miss.Why exact-match caching falls shortTraditional caching uses query text as the cache key. This work

Nvidia Rubin's rack-scale encryption signals a turning point for enterprise AI security

12 January 2026 @ 4:00 pm

Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72, announced at CES 2026, encrypts every bus across 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs, and the entire NVLink fabric. It's the first rack-scale platform to deliver confidential computing across CPU, GPU, and NVLink domains.For security leaders, this fundamentally shifts the conversation. Rather than attempting to secure complex hybrid cloud configurations through contractual trust with cloud providers, they can verify them cryptographically. That’s a critical distinction that matters when nation-state adversaries have proven they are capable of launching targeted cyberattacks at machine speed.The brutal economics of unprotected AIEpoch AI research shows frontier training costs have grown at 2.4x annually since 2016, which means billion

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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 ›