It has been many months since I wrote an article on the U.S. healthcare system. In this post lets take a look at how the U.S. system compared to 11 other developed countries. According to a report published in June last year by The Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. ranks last overall. This won’t be shock to …
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Sugar is one of the most potent “drugs” that is consumed by masses on a daily basis. High consumption of sugar followed by lack of any exercise or leading a sedentary lifestyle leads to obesity. In fact, obesity is one of the major healthcare issues in the U.S. where billions of dollars are wasted each year …
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One of the key strategies for success in investing is diversification. It involves not just investing in various asset classes in a single country but a good diversified portfolio should include a variety of assets spread over many regions or countries. Global diversification in the equity portion of a portfolio is important since equity markets’ …
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The unemployment rate remains high especially in select European markets. For example, Germany has the lowest rate and the rates continues to decline. While the unemployment rate in Germany and Spain are declining, France and Italy it remains stubbornly high and is not declining. According to a report by Natixis, a jobless recovery is currently occurring in …
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The cost of college education continues to increase year-after-year. In fact, the inflation in college tuition is higher rate than other products and services including heatlhcare as shown in the chart below from one my earlier posts on this subject. Click to enlarge The chart below shows the growth of college tuition from the 1980s: …
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