How Many Types Of Coffee Are There?
For coffee lovers , this is an interesting guide. Click to enlarge Source: Sputniknews.com
Archive of entries posted on May 2015
Minimum Wage Across OECD Countries
A few days ago Barry posted a chart titled Who benefits from a higher minimum wage?. Obviously everyone except the labor doing the minimum wage benefits from this. For example, American farmers employing minimum wage workers to pick strawberries and other work profit handsomely from keeping the minimum wage at very low rates.This is on top of the …
Knowledge is Power: Germany, Nuclear Explosion, Mature Bull Market Edition
Does Germany have a trade union problem? (The BBC) ‘American Football Is Like a Nuclear Explosion’ (Der Spiegel) The US payday loans crisis: borrow $100 to make ends meet, owe 36 times that sum (The Guardian) International Investment: Political Risk May No Longer Be a Reason to Avoid Europe (Schwab) More Proof Of America’s Inadequate Infrastructure (Barry) …
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USA vs China: Government Finances and the Economy
The U.S. and Chinese economies are two of the largest economies in the world. Both the countries depend on each for trade and investments. Like the Siamese twins it can be argued that the economies of these countries are inter-linked with one another. In this article, let us compare China and the U.S. based on …
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International Top Long-Term Capital Gain Tax Rates Comparison: Where Does The US Stand?
I wrote a post about the dividend tax rates across countries over the weekend. In this post lets take a look at the Integrated Top Long-term Capital Gains Tax Rates. Click to enlarge Source: Corporate dividend and capital gains taxation: A comparison of the United States to other developed nations, April 2015, Alliance for Savings and Investment (ASI) …