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.

The End Is Nigh: Liberal Justices Predict "Chaos" & The Demise Of Public Education Without Mandatory LGBTQ Material

30 June 2025 @ 4:45 pm

The End Is Nigh: Liberal Justices Predict "Chaos" & The Demise Of Public Education Without Mandatory LGBTQ Material Authored by Jonathan Turley, The end is nigh. That seems to be the message this week from the three liberal justices at the Supreme Court when faced with the nightmarish prospect of parents being able to remove their young children from mandatory classes on gay, lesbian and transgender material. The decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor was a roaring victory for parents in public schools. The Montgomery County, Md. school system

Senate Version Of Trump Tax Bill Adds $3.3 Trillion To Deficit, $500BN More Than The House; Debt Ceiling Raised By $5 Trillion

30 June 2025 @ 4:25 pm

Senate Version Of Trump Tax Bill Adds $3.3 Trillion To Deficit, $500BN More Than The House; Debt Ceiling Raised By $5 Trillion The Senate version of President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) will add nearly $3.3 trillion to US deficits over a decade, according to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, half a trillion more than the $2.8 trillion in deficit expansion under the House version of the same bill. The CBO score for the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill reflects a $4.5 trillion decrease in revenues (i.e. tax cuts relative to the pre-TCJA baseline) and a $1.2 trillion decrease in spending through 2034, relative to a current law baseline.  The Senate bill, by Republican request, was also scored as saving $5

The Great Repression

30 June 2025 @ 4:05 pm

The Great Repression By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank US equities closed higher on Friday, the Dollar fell and Treasuries bull-steepened as markets extended the risk rally sparked by the Israel-Iran ceasefire. The NASDAQ and S&P500 both reset record highs. The latter is now up almost 5% for the year after being flat YTD as recently as the final week of May. Equity futures point higher again today on anticipation that this week could see Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill clear Congress, and trade deals concluded with India and Japan. It's not all good news though. Last week’s third read of US Q1 GDP

"Frozen At The Wheel": Bessent Slams Fed For Delay On Rate Decisions In Wide-Ranging Interview

30 June 2025 @ 3:25 pm

"Frozen At The Wheel": Bessent Slams Fed For Delay On Rate Decisions In Wide-Ranging Interview US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday criticized Federal Reserve policymakers for what he described as their hesitant posture on interest rates, while signaling that the U.S. Treasury is unlikely to alter its current strategy on debt issuance by increasing long-term bond sales.

Stablecoins Are Becoming 'Default Settlement Layer" For The Internet

30 June 2025 @ 2:45 pm

Stablecoins Are Becoming 'Default Settlement Layer" For The Internet Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, Stablecoins have become the backbone of internet payments, with adoption now outpacing major traditional card networks in onchain volume, according to Noam Hurwitz, head of engineering at Alchemy.

Mysterious Blast Paralyzes Oil Tanker In Mediterranean Weeks After Russian Port Call

30 June 2025 @ 2:25 pm

Mysterious Blast Paralyzes Oil Tanker In Mediterranean Weeks After Russian Port Call A mysterious blast struck a tanker carrying 1 million barrels of oil near Libya, and the vessel is now being towed to Greece for damage assessment, according to Bloomberg, citing a statement from the ship's manager. The incident comes amid growing concerns about attacks on commercial vessels navigating highly contested waters, including the Strait of Hormuz and other key shipping lanes. The Vilamoura suffered a severe explosion that appears to have led to significant water intake, flooding the tanker's engine room.

3 Goals For Trump's Trade Negotiations

30 June 2025 @ 2:10 pm

3 Goals For Trump's Trade Negotiations Authored by Adam Millsap viathe American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), The Trump administration has increased tariff rates on dozens of countries in part to kickstart trade policy 

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Job Reports Galore, ISMs, Powell And More

30 June 2025 @ 2:00 pm

Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Job Reports Galore, ISMs, Powell And More Prepare to be disorientated this holiday shortened week, as payrolls sees a rare Thursday print ahead of the Independence Day holiday on Friday, with both JOLTS and ADP labor reports ahead of the Payrolls report. We also have the US ISMs tomorrow and Wednesday, and the various global PMI numbers from tomorrow which will give us a good guide to global economic momentum in June. Elsewhere, DB's Jim Reid notes that a highlight will be the ECB forum in Sintra starting today and the European inflation numbers today and tomorrow. The US tax bill should be finalized this week although at the moment it needs to pass the

Canada Scraps Digital Service Tax On U.S. Tech Giants To Revive Trade Talks

30 June 2025 @ 1:45 pm

Canada Scraps Digital Service Tax On U.S. Tech Giants To Revive Trade Talks Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne wrote on X overnight that Canada has withdrawn its controversial Digital Services Tax (DST) on Silicon Valley tech giants, such as Alphabet and Meta, in order to restart stalled trade negotiations with the Trump administration. It's another win for President Trump, as his 'Art of the Deal' tactics continue to bring far-left progressive countries back in line with his 'America First' agenda.  "Canada is engaged in complex negotiations on a new economic and security partnership with the U.S.," Champagne wrote on X late Sunday.  He continued, "Rescinding the DST will allow the negotiations to make vital progress and reinforce our w

9 Underage Girls Sexually Abused By Syrians At Swimming Pool, Mayor Points To 'Hot Weather'

30 June 2025 @ 1:25 pm

9 Underage Girls Sexually Abused By Syrians At Swimming Pool, Mayor Points To 'Hot Weather' Via Remix News, After underage girls were sexually assaulted in the Barbarossabad swimming pool in Gelnhausen, the CDU mayor of the area pointed out that “hot weather” makes tempers “fray.”

ft.com

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

US dollar suffers worst start to year since 1973

30 June 2025 @ 5:06 pm

Donald Trump’s trade policies and rising debt levels have sparked decline of more than 10% in first half of 2025

Oracle shares hit record high on $30bn cloud contract

30 June 2025 @ 4:45 pm

Data centre group says business from unnamed new client will start to generate revenue by 2028

Late tweaks to Trump tax bill create green power winners and losers

30 June 2025 @ 4:40 pm

Companies that build industrial-scale wind and solar hit hardest while those in residential solar rally

UK government demands probe into insolvency of Lindsey oil refinery

30 June 2025 @ 4:39 pm

River Humber facility owned by privately held Prax Group started proceedings over weekend

Netanyahu says Iran war creates ‘new opportunities’ to free Gaza hostages

30 June 2025 @ 4:37 pm

Israeli prime minister’s comments come as country expresses interest in building ties with Lebanon and Syria

Hauser & Wirth owners join wealthy UK exodus with move to Switzerland

30 June 2025 @ 4:28 pm

Iwan and Manuela Wirth relocated in June after two decades in the UK

Labour had a theory for acquiring power, but none for how to wield it

30 June 2025 @ 4:04 pm

A lack of interest in the real meat of policy helps to explain why Starmer’s first year in government has gone so badly

Pedro Sánchez aide held in prison over Spanish kickback allegations

30 June 2025 @ 4:03 pm

Spain’s prime minister’s former right-hand man is being investigated for crimes including bribery

Trump administration says Harvard violated US civil rights law

30 June 2025 @ 3:54 pm

Ruling comes amid possibility of settlement between White House and Ivy League university

Temperatures reach dangerous highs as ‘heat domes’ hit Europe and US

30 June 2025 @ 3:54 pm

Scientists say the atmospheric phenomena have almost tripled in strength and duration since 1950s

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

Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

29 June 2025 @ 9:15 pm

AI is disrupting the world, but it also presents an opportunity to ask what we are here for, and our role as stewards of meaning.

Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

29 June 2025 @ 6:15 pm

Why the authentication tug-of-war between friction and freedom will be won by those who can walk the tightrope between both.

From hallucinations to hardware: Lessons from a real-world computer vision project gone sideways

28 June 2025 @ 7:05 pm

What we tried, what didn't work and how a combination of approaches eventually helped us build a reliable computer vision model.

AI agents are hitting a liability wall. Mixus has a plan to overcome it using human overseers on high-risk workflows

28 June 2025 @ 2:27 pm

Mixus's "colleague-in-the-loop" model blends automation with human judgment for safe deployment of AI agents.

CTGT wins Best Presentation Style award at VB Transform 2025

28 June 2025 @ 12:48 am

San Francisco-based CTGT, a startup focused on making AI more trustworthy through feature-level model customization, won the Best Presentation Style award at VB Transform 2025 in San Francisco. Founded by 23-year-old Cyril Gorlla, the company showcased how its technology helps enterprises overcome AI trust barriers by directly modifying model features instead of using traditional fine-tuning […]

Catio wins ‘coolest tech’ award at VB Transform 2025

28 June 2025 @ 12:34 am

Catio also announced the upcoming launch of Archie, a conversational, multi-agent AI system.

Retail Resurrection: David’s Bridal bets its future on AI after double bankruptcy

27 June 2025 @ 11:30 pm

How AI-driven personalization, knowledge graphs and a two-sided marketplace are creating a new business model for the 75-year-old retailer.

CFOs want AI that pays: real metrics, not marketing demos

27 June 2025 @ 8:00 pm

CFOs who master new eval frameworks will drive the next wave of AI adoption thruogh disciplined investment for strong competitive advantage.

Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

27 June 2025 @ 8:00 pm

How wisely IT and business leaders plan and choose infrastructure can keep them from being doomed to pilot purgatory or AI damnation.

The rise of prompt ops: Tackling hidden AI costs from bad inputs and context bloat

27 June 2025 @ 8:00 pm

AI models can get fatigued, prompt ops can help manage, measure, monitor and tune prompts.

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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 ›