The financial crisis is undeniable in the United States, and other countries around the world have faced their own as well. But who are the people who have contributed to these fiscal problems? The team from the Credit Score Site helps us find out.
As if the current job market and economy didn’t make it hard enough for low income households in America to make ends meet, it turns out that living below the poverty line is actually more costly in many respects as well. It not only takes… Read more
The state of the United States today is extremely fragile. Lawmakers are at war with one another over how to reduce our deficit while increasing our quality of living, and there is no end to the debate in sight. At the very core of this struggle… Read more
Economic bubbles have been around since the birth of currency. Created by a wide range of factors, from excessive monetary liquidity to plain old human greed, exuberance and stupidity, they can be described as a trade in products or assets valued… Read more
Image: Lisa Yarost/Flickr The American economy is in flux, to put it mildly. Especially if you compile individual conditions, like high unemployment and food-stamp usage, into a bigger picture. That’s just what we attempt to do with the 10… Read more
Image by Brad Templeton, via Coyote Blog I want to like trains. I like riding them, both here and abroad. You can get work done while sitting on the train; you don’t have to worry about traffic jams or bad driver behavior, let alone parking…. Read more
Oil prices are levitating; as a result, everyone is freaking out about food. Food prices, that is, which threaten to increase more (and cause riots, and shortages, and all those other fun aftereffects) as oil climbs the stairway to heaven…. Read more
The British Council and European Community have launched the latest version of MIPEX, the Migrant Integration Policy Index. It measures how well immigrants can access the labor market, gain status as a full-time resident, participate politically,… Read more
Image: John/Wikimedia Commons Libya exploded last night. Protesters, tired of not seeing their country’s wealth trickle down, burned and looted in Tripilo, the country’s capital. At least 200 people are reported dead, and Dictator Moammar… Read more
Last quarter, US GDP grew 2.5%, thanks to consumers spending more on goods and services; companies building up inventory; companies buying factories, equipment, software, and other space (M&A activity?); less imports, and higher federal government… Read more
Image: PRA Lest you forget that the weather can throw a wrench into the economy, rubber trees in Asia have been getting rained on too much during the past year, meaning rubber products are going way up in price soon. The Financial Times… Read more
This Tuesday and Wednesday, the Fed will unleash a second round of quantitative easing (increasing the money supply) geared at jolting the economy back into action. After failing to keep unemployment at bay and stabilize falling prices, the Fed… Read more
We like to call ourselves the richest country in the world, but the 2010 Legatum Prosperity Index has different ideas. The Prosperity Index factors in both money and citizen wellbeing in its rankings. It “finds that the most prosperous nations in… Read more
Image: Flagstaffotos.com.au/Wikimedia Today is Blog Action Day 2010. The theme is water, that innocuous liquid that also happens to be an absolute requirement for any human civilization to survive. It’s a very relevant theme, and one that is… Read more
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