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Knowledge is Power: Fossil Fuel Subsidy, Asia Growth, Robot Revolution Edition

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Why the free market fundamentalists think 2013 will be the best year ever (The Guardian) Fossil fuel subsidies: billions up in smoke? (OECD Insights) Why US winks at illegal migration (The Hindu Business Line) The 40 most unusual economic indicators (Financial Post) Gold stocks’ time to shine (Canadian Business) Fired America (Economic Populist) HSBC: Asia’s ‘worrying’ debt-led growth …

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S&P 500 vs. FTSE 100 Returns

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Reinvestment of dividends can enhance the return of an equity investment. Instead of simply focusing on price returns only investors should focus on the total return of an investment which includes price return plus dividend reinvestment return. Over the past decade, UK’s FTSE 100 has consistently beaten the S&P 500. The FTSE 100 has had …

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U.S. Unemployment Rate Since 1948

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The U.S. unemployment rate stood at 7.9% in January this year. This rate has not changed much since September of 2012. Based on this official figure, currently there 12.3 million unemployed individuals in the country. The actual unemployment rate is much higher since the official rate drops out many unemployed persons such as those that …

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Breakdown of an Apple iPhone 5 Component Costs

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Apple(APPL) has sold millions of its famous iPhone over the years with the most recent model iPhone 5 selling like hotcakes late last year although sales volumes was not as great as expected. In China, the company sold over 2 million units in the first weekend alone. The iPhone 5 was designed in the U.S. …

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The Top 4 Greek Yogurt Brands

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Greek yogurt was introduced to the U.S. market 15 years ago by Fage, the Athens-based privately-held yogurt company according to a recent article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Since then Greek yogurt held a small share of the multi-billion dollar yogurt market in the country. However in the past few years that has changed with consumers buying Greek …

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