The National Health Service (NHS) is the biggest employer in the UK. The NHS employed over 1.3 million people as January 2021. The NHS is funded directly by taxes and is the fifth largest employer in the world according to an article and one out every 20 employees in the UK works for the NHS. Source: …
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Success with investing in equities depends on many factors such as market conditions, quality of stocks held, dividend reinvestment, buying when stocks are super cheap, holding for the long-term, etc. Of all these factors one of the most important is the ability to identify and avoid common behavioral finance mistakes. Sometimes simply making wise behavioral …
The 2020 Olympics ended in Tokyo, Japan recently. Held during an ongoing pandemic with no spectators present in stadiums this was one of the unique Olympics held in modern times. I came across the following infographic on the medals awarded to winners. The composition of metals that these medals are made up of is interesting. …
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I came the below chart from the latest Census data showing the largest, second largest and third largest race or ethnic group in each state of the country. In a handful of states minorities are the majority in terms of population size. For example, in California the largest ethnic group is not White, but rather …
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The Commonwealth Fund recently published the results of a study comparing the health systems of 11 high-income countries. Some of the factors considered in the study are affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcome. The U.S. ranked the last at number 11. Despite healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP being the highest, the …